Historic types of Native American crops of the eastern woodlands.

How you all this today? I've recently read about a northern yellow flint corn and a Lenape blue flour corn, both used to be common in the eastern woodlands of the United States, in the northern half by Native Americans according to Roughwood Seed outta Philadelphia. How is it true, I don't know the historic records and documents to back that stuff up. I've also heard of a new bean, one more pre-Columbian in nature and once common throughout the eastern half of America centuries called a golden cornhill bean, also found at Roughwood. Roughwood has found the bean in New Jersey years ago, and almost became extinct back then. The northern yellow flint was once popular in the northern half of America back then and was shared by many northern tribes. Please share me more historic info on the northern flint, Lenape blue corn and cornhill bean on this post, and I'll take it from there! Love!

Yup, from Mexico to Maine (and far beyond). Corn beans and squash are native to this here turtle island and you can find super local varieties where colonization hasn’t completely wiped them out. Check out Albie Barden. Really nice guy who is doing awesome work to preserve native corn varieties in the northeast.

Does Albie know anymore types of Midwest types of corn and stuff? If he do, then could I get in touch with him? I'm all for looking for more Native American crops and that use to be widespread throughout the eastern half of America including the Great Lakes.

Blake Lenoir wrote: Does Albie know anymore types of Midwest types of corn and stuff? If he do, then could I get in touch with him? I'm all for looking for more Native American crops and that use to be widespread throughout the eastern half of America including the Great Lakes.

I’m not sure but it wouldn’t hurt to reach out. He might be able to point you in the right direction if you don’t find anything specific here.

You grown Longfellow flint corn before? I've heard it was a multipurpose corn for soup and stuff and was common in the northern States and was popular back then. Any more historic records for that corn?

I don't know about the specific varieties you mentioned, but there are a lot of resources to learn more about local heirloom corn, beans, squash, potatoes, and other traditional crops. Find out who your nearby tribes are (or in the region you're interested in) and look into their food sovereignty programs to find out what varieties they're growing, whether they do seed exchange, spring plant sales, etc or just to learn about what they're growing. Our heirloom seeds are still being grown in our communities in many cases and/or are being rematriated from the institutions where they've been held for a century or more.

The best place to learn about native foods/seeds/anything is from native people. Here's an awesome link with tons of info: https://www.indianag.org
(Based in Montana but very active Great Lakes chapter. Tons of great videos on YT.)

You might also find some information here:
https://nativefoodalliance.org/our-programs-2/indigenous-seedkeepers-network/

Also here (although based in the southwest, they exchange seeds from all over):
https://www.nativeseeds.org

Regionally and locally, I'm concentrating on the Potawatomi, Miami and Peoria nations in the Calumet region of Chicago and Indiana off the shores of southern Lake Michigan, as well as Cherokee to honor my late grandmother from Oklahoma in the 1800s. I'm looking for both pre-Columbian and post European settlement types of crops tribes used from themselves and the settlers.

Back again! Missed you all here. I wanna find out about the historic distribution of the Canada Crookneck which is related to the modern butternut. Any more historic truth to the uses of the winter crookneck?

Thankfully, that one was easy. I found several heirloom seed sites selling it.

https://www.heirloomseedsolutions.com/product/canada-crookneck/

How are you in this new year? I wanna find out if Lima beans have been grown in the eastern woodlands, as have runner bean, watermelon and or any other crop from the post Columbian period.