We spent 13 years building an abundant fruit forest, annual veggie beds, perennial medicinal herbs, and a healthy mixed hardwood-coniferous forest and now we’ve sold our property to the next stewards so that we can begin a new homesteading project in Vermont closer to our best friends and their kids.

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Egyptian Walking Onion

Allium cepa proliferum

Habit
Hardy perennial
Ecological Role
Attracts pollinatorsEdible flowersEdible perennial
Availability
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This onion has the funny habit of creating bulbs atop its flowering scapes that grow so big and heavy that the stems bend down and plant the bulblets in the soil about a foot away from the mother clump – sounds like walking, doesn’t it? Plus, the greens and bulbs are delicious!

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