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Activities during the week included planting cabbage , Irish potatoes , sorghum and corn . The model garden plot , with programme species now fading , was also newly planted with maize , sweet potato , cassava , and rustic beans , as well as climbers ( Passiflora , Cyclanthera pedants ) and trees ( banana , papaya ) . In the village where Maathai grew up , a newborn 's first meal was " the juice of green bananas , blue-purple sugarcane , sweet potatoes , and a fattened lamb , all fruits of the local land . I have worked on many space missions involving plant experiments in space including potatoes , sweet potatoes , wheat , and Brassica . " They eat carrots , green beans , sweet potatoes , celery , fruit — and some meat once a week . The collective house is surrounded by a strip of ground devoid of vegetation , followed by a fringe with climbers and creepers , sweet potato , and barbasco . The members of this group include yams , sweet potatoes , cassava , plantains , and breadfruit They are the common staples in the wetter , more humid regions of Africa ( 10 ) , but they are readily perishable and cannot be stored for long periods of time . Vegetables , especially susceptible include bean , cabbage and other crucifers , carrot , cucumber , eggplant , Irish potato , lettuce , pepper and squash . In addition to inhibiting the absorption of essential vitamins , olestra reduces the absorption of carotenoids - - nutrients found in carrots , sweet potatoes , green leaf vegetables , and some animal tissue . Qualitatively important is the cultivation of associated minor crops ( chillies , sugar cane , sweet potato , and squash ) .