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Category: Featured Plants

Interested in learning more about the plants we mention in our blogs? Meet some of the plants we love here at Happy Hooligan Homestead! Below are our blogs featuring specific plants in detail. Learn their beneficial traits in supporting healthy soil, healthy wildlife, and a healthy you!

Picture of an organic ginger rhizome halfway buried in soil with a small short sprout growing up from the surface.

Ginger [Zingiber officinale]

Posted on May 12, 2021June 21, 2021 by Cristophe

In honor of May being Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, I am continuing to feature beloved Asian…

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Picture of two blooming 'Rajah' daylily flowers showing their various light and dark orange colors growing next to a sprouting wild sunflower and some small white wildflowers.

Daylily [Hemerocallis fulva]

Posted on May 5, 2021June 21, 2021 by Cristophe

In honor of May being Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, we are highlighting a very loved…

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Bucket of rose petals on HHH

Rose – Queen of the Flowers

Posted on October 21, 2020August 11, 2021 by Cristophe

Once called the Queen of flowers by poetess Sappho, the multi-talented rose [Rosa spp.] is…

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Bowls of pomegranate seeds

Pomegranate [Punica granatum]

Posted on October 7, 2020August 11, 2021 by Cristophe

If you’ve spent any time around me, you would know one of my favorite fruits…

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Bunch of bananas on the counter at HHH

Bananas [Musa species]

Posted on September 23, 2020August 11, 2021 by Cristophe

Bananas? In south Texas? You must be bananas!  I love growing bananas because they are…

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Close-up picture of an open sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) flower growing from a vine hidden within a patch of wild grasses.

Importance of Scientific Names in Botany

Posted on September 2, 2020August 19, 2021 by Cristophe

(Updated: August 19, 2021) Have you ever read a good book about plants? Chances are…

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Happy Hooligan Homestead

Hi, we are authors Rimakej (they/them) and Cristophe (he/him) Valentini. HHH began as Half Hectare Homestead, a holistic homestead we managed for 5 years near San Antonio, Texas, USA. Now HHH is Happy Hooligan Homestead, a growing sustainable and inclusive homesteading community in upstate New York, USA! Thank you for enjoying our blogs as we continue to share love and learning with you all. Subscribe to our email list below, or follow us on Facebook and/or Instagram to view even more of our unique content!


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