5 Forgotten Crops That Feed a Family for 20 Years — And Why They Vanished

Before modern seed catalogues existed, families planted vegetable beds that fed generations — crops that came back every spring, for twenty years or more, from a single planting. Five of them survive to this day, and the seed industry has very good reasons for not wanting you to know about them. This video walks through the perennial vegetables that medieval peasants, Roman farmers, and Silk Road traders depended on — and explains why almost nobody grows them anymore.