Moringa leaves PhotoBlog from Taino Organic Farm, Dominican Republic
Moringa (Moringa olifera) has made a sweeping movement across the island of Hispaniola through its recognizable market entrance and nutrition improvement crop for those who are subsisting. The plant is super multi-functional, grows in tough climates including drought. Bees abound in its fragrant flowers while the resulting beans inside it’s oddly shaped bean pods have a great cleansing effect when ground and added to dirty, pathogen ridden water. This gives so many more people on planet earth water and food security. After all its a super food that grows on a tree that you can cut again and again. Great permaculture all-star plant!!!!!!
Morning dew on the leaves
The leaves of Moringa are quite nutritious and have made a viral movement around this country.
The reddish stems of Moringa make this plant an attractive feature in the forest garden. It coppices well, which is the regrowth that you can see where the tree was cut.
The coppice keeps the plant height low and increases leaf production. You can cut it back continually for its steamed greens.
The thin feathery leaves show the classic pinnately compound leaf pattern of some legume trees.
The flowers of Moring can also be eaten as well as the root dug up and grated into acondiment similar in taste to horseradish- giving it its English name of Drumstick tree.
The interconnected web of life through biodiversity captured here in this dewy early morning.
A food revolution from spreading of seeds: what else will we see spread? A super food leaf crop that grows on a tree that you can continually cut back at shoulder height. You don’t even have to bend over to harvest.
I;m a Naturopathic medical doctor, leave in Azua and I have a small Moringa plantation, two acres, soon I will be selling all moringa plants parts, do you know any market in the island?, so far I’m getting some oil from wild seeds and making a couple of creams that my daughter sells in Orlando Fl. area, I need tons of information, could you please help me out?. I’m Jose A. Diaz and my phone # is 829-965-6055, email is : drjodia@yahoo.com, thanks for your time.
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