I’m falling in love with teff. Yes, we’re still in the honeymoon phase, but I have a feeling that years from now, wherever I wind up, I’ll still be devoted. Teff is an Ethiopian grass that came onto my radar in 2021, when I learned that farmers were using it as a drought-tolerant cover for the pathways between cash crops. I finally bought a bag last winter, intending to seed it between the fall brassicas. Then, in June, Dan got ahead of himself and started cultivating the peppers, forgetting I’d seeded ryegrass in the pathways just days earlier, (i.e. he was killing my grass). He aborted the mission, I quelled the urge to kill him, and we prayed the ryegrass would pull through. As Dan’s luck would have it, there was zero rain in the weeks that followed, and no ryegrass germinated anywhere. Just bindweed. So I waved the white flag, Dan cultivated the pathways again (this time with permission), and I seeded again. Only instead of ryegrass, I decided to try out the teff. Whoa baby!​ Read more...