Articles written by WENDY RIPMEESTER
Articles written by
WENDY RIPMEESTER
Lessons on Forests and Food Security from a Water Hyacinth
What the water didn’t know, though, was that the hyacinth is one of the most productive plants on earth. It boasts an incredible reproduction rate; doubling in size each day, and sending out runner stems to establish tons of “daughter plants”. The story goes on to describe how the hyacinth did just that …