Good King Henry Grain — Blog – The Backyard Larder

Posted on August 23, 2018 by Anni Kelsey

I have been planning to harvest some Good King Henry seed for grain, but haven’t done so yet so I was very pleased to read that Alison from The Backyard Larder has just done a great post all about it.

Good King Henry is closely related to quinoa – they are both members of the ‘goosefoot’ (from the shape of their leaves) or Chenopodioideae sub-family. So I was interested in using Good King Henry as a pseudocereal just as quinoa is used (a pseudocereal is a non-grass plant whose seed is used as a grain…

via Good King Henry Grain — Blog – The Backyard Larder

About Anni Kelsey

I love forest gardens and forest gardening, nature, reading and everything good about being alive. I have written two books - the garden of equal delights (2020) - about the principles and practice of forest gardening; and Edible Perennial Gardening (2014) - about growing perennial vegetables in polycultures, which is basically forest gardening concentrating on the lower layers.
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2 Responses to Good King Henry Grain — Blog – The Backyard Larder

  1. Helen says:
    August 24, 2018 at 8:15 pm

    Interesting information – sounds like my kind of plant. I need to find out what it looks like….

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