Middle East: a famine food cited in the Hebrew Old Testament (II Kings 6:25). The bulbs were ground up after numerous boilings, to eliminate the poisonous principles, then mixed with cereal flour to ...

Some of the most common (and some of the favorites that we grow all over the farm) include crocus, muscari, chionodoxa, scilla, galanthus, and ornithogalum. All of these bulbs are planted in the ...