Growing Pigeon Peas
The pigeon pea is one of those ubiquitious permaculture plants. It’s a nitrogen-fixer, incredibly easy to grow, chicken forage, a quick pioneer, and yields the very edible lentil-like pigeon peas. It’s nearly harvest time at the farm.
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November 12th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Pigeon Peas seem to be very scarce on Permaculture sites.
How do you feed to Chickens? I read the leaves are edible.
Do they respond well to having some branches lopped of and fed to Chickens?
What would be a good soource of different types of seed? especially for the quicker maturing varieties.
January 15th, 2012 at 6:13 pm
the best time to chop is when rainfall i8s greater than evaporation this gives them a better chance to regrow