Pigeon peas, or as locally known – mbaazi, is a perennial legume that is loved for its nutritional value. Raw, mature green seeds of pigeon peas can be eaten as vegetables but in Kenya, the dry grains ...

Here’s a special plant that is perfect for the tropical home garden: the bean tree, or frijol de palo in Spanish. More commonly called pigeon pea or gandul in English, Cajanus cajan arrived in the New ...

Gardeners everywhere know that there's a certain special kind of magic when it comes to watching something grow from a tiny seed into a full-grown plant that you can feed yourself and your family from ...

The lowly pigeon pea offers many benefits to akamai gardeners. Not only is it a drought-tolerant, small and attractive tree but it also offers an edible crop and fixes nitrogen. As the leaves of ...