New Hampshire homesteader, author and influencer Michelle Visser touts a chicory tea as the "perfect, all natural" alternative to decaffeinated coffee, which is chemically processed.

This plant is chicory. As a member of the aster family, it is a close relative to the dandelion. Blue flowers are not unheard of in plants, but compared to other colors, they are somewhat rare. So, if ...

A vegetable and/or salad leaf, chicory has a white bulb with tightly packed elongated cones and overlapping white leaves with pale yellow tips. The roots are propogated in warm, moist peat or sand ...

But what is chicory exactly, and why is it blended with coffee? If you’ve ever visited Cafe Du Monde in New Orleans for coffee, you might have noticed that the brew tastes a bit different.

Chicory wants to grow in a sunny spot in a well-draining soil type with a pH of 6-7.5. It is a crop best suited to cooler ...

It re-emerged in Northern Europe in the 18th century. The use of chicory in coffee dates back to Northern Europe in the Prussian Empire. Evidently, Germans then were see-sawing “…from a state of ...