posted 2 months ago
Good evening friends! How are you? I'm Blake a community farmer and gardener from Chicago who's doing his very best to reclaim his family's past in Mississippi especially in the Jackson and Greenville areas from an ancient and colonial standpoint. Here are some crops I already have.
1. Choctaw white flour corn
2. Choctaw sweet potato pumpkin
3. Choctaw Perque tobacco
4. Choctaw Tobi peas
5. Choctaw Smith peas
5. Choctaw Lipstick beans
6. Choctaw Cutworm beans
7. Choctaw Cain beans
8. Traveler's Calico lima beans
9. Yellow Creole flint corn
10. Pilgrim's kale
11. Seneca sunflower
12. Chickasaw hickory cane corn
13. Wichita or green stripe cushaw squash
14. Carolina peanuts
15. Piggot family cowpeas
Here's what I'm looking for:
1. Creole English pea
2. Chickasaw red flint corn
3. Spanish Red sweet potato
4. Choctaw Bread squash
5. Disc Nantes gourd ( one used to be at Sandhill Preservation in Iowa, but not anymore)
6. Lima or butterbeans ( ones tied to Native Americans in Mississippi centuries ago)
7. Watermelon or muskmelon ( also tied to Native Americans in Mississippi centuries back)
8. Trailing wild beans
9. Mississippi brown cotton
10. Chickasaw pole beans
11. Sweet potatoes ( looking for one tied to black settlers and others in Mississippi centuries ago)
If there's any more stuff from blacks and Native Americans in Mississippi in the 1700s or early 1800s, please let me know at my Purple Moosage site and we'll talk more about what can be done for me to obtain this stuff. Good night!
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