Never grown fenugreek or heard of anyone using the leaves. Do you eat them?

Three important tricks for growing all of your own food:

• Live in the non-seasonal equatorial zone and/or invest heavily in food-preservation infrastructure that doesn’t require constant connection to the electric grid.
• Learn to eat what grows well in your area.
• Focus on high-calorie staples and plant smaller amounts of everything else.

In the last few days, I’ve harvested mostly mandarins, but also bananas, papayas, cacao, araçá, capsicums, tomatoes, rangpur (mandarin limes), and… badea and naranjilla… and probably other things that I forget, but it’s a bit of a lull in the jackfruit right now, and the birds get almost all of the jaboticabas, and I’m still struggling to keep up with eating a recent plantain harvest. Oh, and there’s noni. Always noni. No shortage of noni. The neighbours hate noni.