Ideas for community gardens

Edible roots such as sweet potato, yam and taro - for thousands of years the dietary mainstay of South-East Asian and Pacific island peoples - have entered the Australian diet over the past 15 years. (photo - front: sweet potato; left: yam; right: taro)

IDEAS...
Edible roots

Root crops are nutritious staple foods that provide us with carbohydrates - the energy foods that keep us going; some root crops are spices that add flavour to our food.

• about edible roots

vegetables:

• carrot
• chinese artichoke
• jerusalum artichoke
• daikon
• onion
• oca
• parsnip
• potato
• sweet potato
• taro
• yam
• yacon

spices:

• galangal
• ginger
• tumeric

PAGE UPDATED... Wednesday, 16 January 2002