Description
🚚 The fastest delivery time : 3-5 day delivery.
🐝 Supplier / Origin : Fa Liu Farm / Tai Po, Hong Kong
🔖 Certification : ZFP Restore Fund Supported Farm
🌱 Supplier introduction : Fa Liu is Ms. Liu Ting Chun, a teacher of the Green herbal medicine class. She has been managing a private farm for ten years. Green (绿藤) joined the organization in the last year, 💚Hope to transform into a #lifeeducationfarm that combines folk wisdom and promotion of physical and spiritual health, practicing #regenerative farming and #community integration experience 💚
The characteristic of Fa Liu is the quiet valley scenery, rich biodiversity, and natural mountain streams passing through. There are more than 100 kinds of horticultural flowers and Chinese herbal medicines planted in the field, and the seasonal vegetable fields are being cultivated one after another, and we are constantly learning from the obstacles. 🌱
As a farm being rebuilt by hand, a farm with rich biodiversity, it is worth visiting and learning with partners: how can we transform the farm by ourselves, and how should we face other life besides crops...
🛍 Product Information :
🌞 Light: Full sun (≥6 hours daily)
🌡️ Temperature: Optimal 20–35°C, heat and drought tolerant
🌱 Soil: Well-drained, poor soil, salt tolerant (pH 5.5–7.5), sandy loam is best
💧 Water: Drought tolerant, avoid waterlogging, keep moist after sowing
✂️ Plant spacing: 30×40cm (dense sowing is possible for green manure)
Management
Watering: Only during seedling stage
Fertilization: Base application of phosphorus and potassium, no nitrogen supplementation
Harvest: Cut and turn over before flowering (green manure) / Harvest when pods turn brown
Tips: Grow quickly from seed, soil becomes fertile in 60 days! A green manure miracle.
Pig Shit Bean (Crotalaria pallida), aka Rattlepod, Striped Crotalaria, is an annual/perennial herb in the Fabaceae family. 50–150 cm tall; stems erect, branched; trifoliate leaves with obovate leaflets. Raceme inflorescences; yellow flowers streaked brown-purple; inflated pods rattle when shaken.
Native to tropical Africa, now widespread in Taiwan, southern China, and Southeast Asia along roadsides and wastelands. Roots, stems, leaves medicinal: neutral, sweet-slightly bitter. Clears heat, detoxifies, reduces swelling, relieves pain, promotes diuresis. Treats snakebites, sores, rheumatism, jaundice. Pods produce rattling sound—hence “rattlepod.” Excellent green manure for nitrogen fixation and soil improvement. Contains pyrrolizidine alkaloids; use internally only under medical supervision; contraindicated in pregnancy.
Location: Tai Po, Hong Kong
Farm Size: 28,700 sq.ft / 0.6 acres
Produces Grown:
Mulberry, lemon, papaya, coffee beans, watercress, daikon, carrot, coriander, lettuce
Regenerative Practices to Implement:
Mulching, compost application, alley cropping, nutrient management
Carbon Sequestration Potential: 2T CO2
Supply Period： From November To December
🥗 Recipes (English Version)：
Notes
Ornamental and edible flowers in pots generally require a combination of warmth, sunlight, and fertilizer. They are not suitable for cultivation in most urban areas, unless you have a sunny rooftop or a village house. Planting them may not be suitable for every home. If you want to increase their survival rate, consider violets and orchids, ornamental flowers that are more suitable for urban cultivation.
