Perennial edible crops: This is a video beautifully filmed by Huw Richards when he came to visit Mandy Barber of ... Read more ..read more

Perennial Veg: A video with Mandy Barber of Incredible Vegetables chatting with Huw Richards, filmed at the end of summer ... Read more ..read more

Mandy Barber from Incredible Vegetables chats perennial vegetables with Brave New Girls podcast host Lou Hamilton and asks the question “Are perennial crops the future and can they help soil, climate, nutrition and biodiversity all at the same time!”  If you’re interested in future food security and growing your own veg that you put in the ground once and reap the rewards year after year tune in to this podcast and hear all about perennial vegetables and the benefits of growing them. Episode from 28th May 2024 ..read more

Perennial Veg: promise and propagation, kicked off the 2024 Oxford Real Farming conference with a packed out room of eager delegates. Mandy Barber from Incredible Vegetables, Guy Singh-Watson (Riverford) and Tom Hartley (Soil Association) presented a fantastic session on how we can move forward with perennial vegetables, why they are so important and ideas to scale up propagation as well as a slide show of a selection of Mandy’s favourite perennial vegetables to grow, followed by questions and discussion. (Held Thurs 4th Jan 2024). Perennial veg has been taking off for years with home gardene ..read more

Using perennials in CSA’s and market gardens was held online in the depths of winter when we were dreaming of the growing year ahead. Mandy Barber of Incredible Vegetables and Ryan Sandford-Blackburn of Earthed Up! got together to explore and present the potential of perennials. We looked at the benefits, which species may make sense, perennials for seed crops, integration into an annual layout and use at the edges. The webinar is designed to leave you with an idea of how you could add delicious perennial crops to your design, reducing inputs and increasing climate resilience. Mandy Barber is ..read more

How do we grow crops resilient enough to adapt to climate change? In this workshop organised by the Soil Association at the Organic Growers Alliance’s Organic Matters 2022 conference, we explore perennial vegetables, which can provide so many solutions to the environmental situations we are facing, and edible cacti. Chair: Hugh Blogg (Soil Association). Speakers Mandy Barber (Incredible Vegetables) and Elki Guillen (Freelance Chef, Food and Cactae researcher ..read more

Pigeon pea – Cajanus cajun is a drought tolerant nitrogen fixing shrubby perennial legume that can live for about 5 years. It is widely grown in India, Africa and central america where it is a staple crop and also used for making dal. Also known as Congo peas, no-eye peas, red gram and gandules. It is also frost tender which makes it tricky to grow in the UK, with pods and seeds not usually forming in time as flowering is usually triggered by shortening day length just as the autumn frosts arrive. Last year we grew a number of plants which grew vigorously but didn’t flower and sadly were kill ..read more

We have had the busiest year of all time as the passion for perennial vegetables has grown. We expanded into our huge new polytunnel back in May and have been propagating and diversifying what we do, so we can begin to offer you more plants and seeds for your perennial vegetable garden. Below are some pics of our flourishing perennial plant nursery and outdoor space at Baddaford farm, ten minutes from our main site in Ashburton. Plants are waiting to go off to their new homes and a nice pic of Yacon and Dwarf Jerusalem artichokes growing out in the field back in October. Our new plant nurser ..read more

 We are going under cover! We have just had our busiest year at Incredible vegetables, the demand for our plants and seeds over the last 12 months has sky rocketed as many people have been learning about and embracing the benefits of perennial vegetables. One thing we have struggled with ( as a small team of two) is to be able to propagate enough plants for a continuous supply all year round. Well, our dream to produce more plants and a much more diverse array of perennial edible plants has just come true!  A huge new tunnel space for research, seed production and propagating more pe ..read more

It’s been a busy year at Incredible Vegetables with lots of seed saving projects and new perennial and interesting food crops being tested. We have produced our first large batch of Skirret seed, have grown some very large anchote roots and fruits (Coccinia abyssinica) and are now underway with Giant Ulleung celery (Dystaenia takisimana), Ashitaba (Angelica keiskei), Aster Scaber, Ligularia fischeri and Sochan (Rudbeckia laciniata)  Anchote -Coccinia abyssinica, an Ethiopian root crop We grew anchote for the first time and plants were given special treatment in the polytunnel. Anchote pl ..read more