Sunflower tubers (Photo Courtesy of Emmy Ulmschneider) Beside the seeds and oil, Maximilian Sunflower has an edible underground root tuber. As I was cutting back these sunflowers in my chicken ...

Neither from Jerusalem nor an artichoke, this misunderstood native American tuber is actually a kind of sunflower, or girasole in Italian. The sunchoke, as it’s also known, is nutty, rich in ...

Previously, we have written about the importance of sunflowers in a native garden. If you can only plant one plant, plant a sunflower as you get so much value in one plant: beauty, habitat value and ...