Food plants that grow like weeds: Tatsoi
AH here we are again, thinking about free food!
Take a moment and imagine a world where, if you’re hungry, you go and gather food that is growing conveniently around you—and you eat.
Imagine sowing seeds next spring that grow weeds that produce food, plants that self-propagate, that are tough enough to endure the round of seasons, and yummy enough that you’ll come back for more.
Imagine living in a landscape of food and walking outside right after you read this and then—and then you meet tatsoi:
the fulgent blooming tatsoi
Tatsoi is definitely a food weed. I haven’t planted seed in four years. Let a few mature and drop seed, there’ll always be more. Like the mustards, tatsoi enjoys the cold and is among the first to greet you in the early spring.
pretty chubby tatsoi
It’s a beautiful hunkering circular plant. Each leaf compacts against the next; together, the dark green chubby leaves form a head.
tatsoi is a food weed
The leaves are succulent: the stems a little chewy for stir-fry, but fine for stews and soups. The flavor is bokchoi-ish, mild but with a quickfade bitter attack.
tatsoi octopus
Chickens don’t seem to like it. But all you need is one hungry chicken, looking for free food and…
please accept this invitation to learn the delights of the tatsoi
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