Humm Online Exclusives - May 2014

Local Food Resources

Get to know local food producers through theHumm's series of profiles

• Ottawa Valley farmers' markets
• Local farmgate sales
• Ottawa Valley food producers

6 Plants You Should Know More About

Courtesy of this month's featured Ottawa Valley local food resource, Aster Lane Edibles:
Hablitzia Tamnoides (aka "Habby"): a hardy, perennial, shade-tolerant vine that tastes like spinach.
Anise Hyssop "Golden Jubilee": a 'bee plant'. Useful in teas and mixed into salads; attractive golden leaf and pinkish flower.
Buckler Leaf Sorrel: a tidy, decorative sorrel (not as rangy as other varieties); great in the front of a border; heat tolerant; nice sour flavor.
Sweet Cicely: shade tolerant; entire plant is edible; immature green seeds taste like candy.
Onion (Allium Nutans): a very decorative perennial onion; pretty and delicious with a full-bodied onion flavour.
Perennial leek "Oeprei": a bunching leek; a European vegetable; seeds from Scandinavia.

Read the May feature on farmers' markets in theHumm paper.

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