Thank you for the great replies
My hope (depending on the property yet to be aquired)... Is to have a lot set aside for growing the officinalis variety. Perhaps with white clover and chickweed as a winter ground cover... Like the recommendation for some shrubs; especially rugosa and/or some nitrogen fixing species.
I do plan on propagating lots and lots of bocking #4 as well, but more in a "landscaped" fashion and as part of a polyculture field... Would love to grow peas, beans, squash, etc. Bit that will depend on where I end up. As here on the PNW coast, our summers don't get warm enough
Would plants like the Sunchoke be able to push themselves up through a thick patch of officinalis (comfrey)?