This is a wonderful overview of the perennial tropical veggie chaya, of which there are many forms/cultivars.

http://people.umass.edu/psoil370/Syllabus-files/Chaya.pdf

Some folks say to leave the purple cone of male flowers on after the last row of bananas has formed, others say to sever it. I've tried them cooked and found them really nasty tasting. Nice to see fruit on this Raja Puri out front!

I agree with Mary Jo....the "Joyner Butter Bean", a hybrid cowpea that evolved in the garden of a friend of a blog reader they kindly mailed me, while wonderfully vigorous, makes pods that are tough even when very small and young. I'll use the tender young leaves in various dishes, and when the green pods are plump I'll cook and serve them like edamame soybeans, maybe lightly tossed with a little soy sauce and wasabi powder. Good thing I didn't fully eliminate my self sown 'Iron Clay' seedlings as I'd planned as their pods are sweet and tender until 5-6 inches long and rampant climbers to boot, so production is heavy.

The Neem Tree that Vicki Parsons gave me a couple of years ago is doing quite in the quickly evolving center food forest out back.

A very simple well.

http://www.shtfpreparedness.com/how-to-make-your-own-pvc-water-well-hand-pump/

One new GMO rice even has human genes in it!

http://www.naturalnews.com/041054_GM_rice_food_apocalypse_USDA.html

My past efforts to cook green Moringa seed pods resulted in their being way too tough to eat, and I am a "garbage gut" with a VERY short list of foods I dislike. Asian folks have told me they are NEVER tender eaten whole despite what I've read, to just boil them in salt water, drain, split with my thumb and eat the interior. This reminds me of both edamame soybeans and how I prepare and eat my green gandule bean pods. Mike Urban has eaten pods when skinny and 3-4 inches long and nicely tender cooked. Tomorrow I coppice my third and last Moringa and hope I get more pods to experiment with.....if I don't like them (very unlikely) maybe cook long mature ones in my solar dish as poultry food.

http://edibleplantproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/moringa-recipes.pdf