COME AND HELP YOURSELF TO AS MUCH MALLOW AS YOU WANT

Join us between 9am to 1pm on Saturday for our regular Volunteer Work-party – and take this opportunity to find out if it is true that this plant has culinary and herbal benefits as some people claim…

If what we have growing is in fact common mallow, then according to Wikipedia it is also known as cheeseplant, and “although often considered a weed, this plant is often consumed as a food”. Apparently it is highly prized in Morocco where Mallow Salad with Preserved Lemon and Olives is known as Khoubiza or Bakoula. Some sources indicate that this plant is traditionally used as a herbal medicine.

Unfortunately, if we let our mallow harvest keep growing any more than it already has, we won’t be able to get through it to harvest all those juicy peaches and nectarines that will soon be ripe for the picking, so we’re being forced to give away all the mallow to whoever wants to help themselves. You just pull it out by the roots, and there you have it. Any leftover mallow will be added to our compost pile, and will eventually help with our project to grow great fruit for donation to the Food Bank.

Please come and support the Mesa Community's very own food forest to feed the hungry.

Thanks for all your support.

Hugh

Hugh Kelly
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President
Mesa Harmony Garden

a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation