Introducing Arrowroot with Brandon Ruiz (a Utopian Seed Project Meet-the-Plant series)
Channel: Utopian Seed Project
Date: 2020-05-05

Arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea) is a tropical perennial that we can grow in North Carolina as a temperate annual. Arrowroot is fairly well known as a starch producing tuber, but few people think about its botanical heritage and crop potential in North Carolina.

This video is part of a The Utopian Seed Project series called, Meet-the-Plant, where plant experts introduce you to less known plants (in North Carolina) that have food production potential.

In this video, Brandon Ruiz, founder of CLT Herbal Accessibility Project and Utopian Seed Project board member, gives a historical, botanical and culinary overview of Arrowroot.

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