posted 2 years ago
Good afternoon folks. I'm currently growing some wildlife and ethnobotanical (Native American and early settler) gardens at my community farm and I'm looking for more historic types that used to be grown in the Midwest and South from the 1600s to the 1830s. Here's what I'm gonna trade first. I'll even trade some potatoes or other stuff.
Trade:
1. Illinois-Tamaroa white flour corn
2. Mandan squash
3. Mandan sunflower
4. Orangelo watermelon
5. Bushel gourd
6. Little bit of Potawatomi red flour corn
7. Lenape Striped Maycock squash
8. Cherokee tobacco
9. Green striped cushaw
10. Blue Scottish kale
11. Cowhorn potato
12. Special cup potato
13. Little bit of Garnet Chili potatoes
14. Greasy bean
15. Little bit of Aunt Mary's sweet corn
16. Blue popcorn ( Eastern woodland indigenous type)
17. Little bit of Seneca sunflower
18. Mohawk tobacco or Skunk bean
19. Winnebago white flour corn
20. Sibley squash
21. Little bit of cowhorn okra
22. Cup plants or asters
23. Brown Eye Susans
Return:
1. More white rice popcorn (ancient type from the Iroquois)
2. Stillwell flour corn ( from the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma)
3. Gronninger blue kale
4. Seneca Cowhorn or Ojibwe potato
5. Cherokee butterbean
6, Potawatomi calico sweet corn
7, Potawatomi muskmelon
8. Algonquian squash or Potawatomi gray pumpkin
9. Grey Indian woman bean ( once widespread throughout the Great Lakes)
10. Disc Nantes gourd (Cherokee and Choctaw use them)
11. Pokagon or Potawatomi pumpkin
12. Spanish Red sweet potato
13. Perique tobacco
14. Orinoco tobacco (older and historic version)
15. Tecumseh or Red Lake flint corn
16. More Potawatomi tobacco
17. More Potawatomi red seed watermelon
18. Cherokee dipper gourd
19. Wea fall bean
20. Strawberry spinach
21. Yellow Indian woman bean
22. Sherwood or Cherokee red okra
23. Lumper potatoes
Those are all I'm looking for right now to help better my gardens for the Calumet and Wabash regions of the Midwest and Cherokee, Natchez and Creole to honor my family's ancestry. If anybody knows any more types of heirloom crops and stuff that used to be grown by Native Americans or early settlers from the Great Lakes or southeast into Cherokee or Natchez territories, please let me know in the Purple Moosage to be best informed. Other than that please share some historic info of some agricultural history of the Great Lakes and Southeast from the 1600s to the 1830s and anybody's welcome to add more feedback to aid me on my growing quest to better my rematration gardens and make this topic more edifying. Thanks for dropping in!