Sweet potato has a larger growing range than the common potato and can thrive from sea level up to nearly 9,800 feet. In the final episode of this season of Climate Cuisine, we’ll talk with a researcher at the International Potato Center in Peru about the incredible root, and a sustainability teacher in Costa Rica who has figured out how to grow everything she and her family consume.

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Hey Climate Cuisine fans! I’d love for you to listen to this episode of Fruit Love Letters about persimmons from fellow Whetstone Radio host Jessamine Star. Fruit Love Letters is a curious audio-epistolary foray into the Anthropocene of fruit interwoven with original poetry. If you’ve loved learning about taro, pigeon pea and bananas, you’ll really enjoy the first season of Fruit Love Letters about apples, mulberry, pawpaw and breadfruit among many others, now streaming here wherever you get your podcasts!

Learn more about Fruit Love Letters here: https://www.whetstonemagazine.com/fruit-love-letters

Malabar spinach is a leafy green in the tropics that grows all year round, and its vibrant purple seeds can even be used for hair dye. In this episode, we’ll talk with a Texan woman who dyed her daughter’s hair purple with the seeds, a plant researcher in Washington D.C. describing it is a great alternative food source, and a rooftop gardener in Taipei using it as a spinach substitute.

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