Chicory's root is often dried and ground and used as a coffee substitute or added to coffee for a different flavor. It can be used as a cover crop. It's a perennial, you can eat the greens. It's one of the oldest cultivated crops. It contains 30% protein for ruminant animals only.

I've tried to keep it growing here, but it likes poor soil, growing well alongside roadways here. Last year I had beautiful ones coming along in the New Herb and then all 4 up and died at once. :(( So I will try again.

It's a taproot plant so hates transplanting.