Blake Lenoir

Good morning friends! How are you? I'm Blake a long time gardener and farmer who's doing his very best to restore his community's and family's past in Chicago to edify all and am considering trading some things to better the historic outlook of my gardens.
Also a regular guy who post many topics on growing and stuff like that for edification and inspiration. Here's what I'm offering and what I'm seeking in return if you have any.
1. Algonquian long pie pumpkin
2. Potawatomi Walpole Island white flour corn
3. Cherokee Community flour corn
4. Cherokee blue gourdseed corn
5. Miami green spotted pumpkin
6. Cherokee cornhill pole beans
7. Ohio pole beans
8. Swedish or Buckskin bush beans
9. German white radish
10. Mexican white squash
11. Tatume squash
12. Potawatomi pink flower tobacco
13. German bush beans
14. Tetovac beans
15. Cherokee gourdseed corn
16. Cherokee garlic (seed)
17. Ojibwe Bear Island flint corn
18. Canada crookneck squash
19. Miami gray squash
20. Chickasaw hickory cane corn
21. Garlic chives (root)
22. Sunchokes (root)
23. Cherokee Grampa (cranberry) pole beans
24. White Silisian lettuce
25. Joe Pye weed (seed)
26. Cut leaf coneflower (seed)
27. Mammoth sunflower
28. Hot pepper of some type
29. Paw paw (seeds)
30. Hanging Dog elephant leek (seed)
31. Lemon perennial sunflower (root)
32. Cup plant (plant or seed)
Return:
1. Leda or Slovenian lettuce
2. Cerovaca or Old Serbian melon
3. Potawatomi muskmelon
4. Serbian Sunny Creek cucumber
5. Rastka or Bosnian greens
6. Potawatomi or Pokagon pumpkin
7. American groundnut (root or plant)
8. Red Dutch cabbage
9. Irish giant cabbage
10. Irish green peas
11. Miami-Sauk red flour corn
12. Miami bear paw pole beans
13. Wea Fall pole beans
14. Potawatomi calico sweet corn
15. Cherokee Dr Wyche bush beans (red swirled beans)
16. Serbian Star garlic or the spring types (root)
17. Polish snow peas
18. Osmak or Serbian white flint corn
19. Osmak or Serbian red flint corn
20. Mushito Azul or blue flour corn
21. Michochan colored runner beans
22. Choctaw bread squash
23. Chickasaw pole beans
24. Chickasaw Bogue gourd
25. Sweet everlasting (plant or root)
26. Late or Tall boneset (plant or root)
27. Jalisco sorghum
28. Red Valentine pole beans (not the bush type)
29. Disc Nantes gourd or squash
30. Serbian or Slovenian potatoes
31. Serbian heirloom tobacco (and from the north province near Hungary)
32. Mexican heirloom sweet corn (ancient type)
33. Morava Gate sweet pepper or Serbian elephant ear one
34. Any of the Serbian tomatoes red or yellow
35. Mexico tomato
If any of y'all have any more stuff tied to the Mexican, Irish and Serbian immigrants as well as some stuff tied to Native Americans and former black slaves in Mississippi and Louisiana and also to Cherokee Freedmen, please let me know in the Purple Mooseage and we'll discuss more ways for me to acquire these historic varieties.
Have a good day!

Good evening friends! How are you? Y'all heard Uncle Ralph died this year? Missed my whole family members from the Lenoir side. I'm trying to reunite those who have Creole, Irish and Cherokee according to my late pop who died last year. His name's Darryl.
Still looking for Willa Mae Davis from Milwaukee and is she still living? And what about the status of Eva May Fry? If anybody knows their current whereabouts, please let me know at the Purple Mooseage. Good night.

Good morning friends! How are you? Blake back to ask if there's gonna be another swap this year in the U.K. Could it happen online? I remain on the hunt for more Irish, Swedish, Polish and Serbian varieties to help restore my community's past as well as Mexican and Sierra Leonian.
Speaking of Sierra Leone, I have a great grandfather born there from my late father's side. Please shoot back if you need me. Have a good day!

Good evening folks! Back again to find out if anybody has shopped at Exotic Seed Shop before. It's a European seed company that has many Serbian varieties and I'm trying to find out how I shop from there.
I'm new to the site and don't understand how they do. If any of has successfully shopped over there, please let me know. Good night.

What's up Josh! How you been? Where I get the pepper spray man? Which is the best one to ward off critters? Thanks!

Forgot! Also looking and needing more Odawa soup beans and Potawatomi red dent corn for my gardens if anybody have those as well as Slovenian potatoes and Mushito Blue corn for next year. Please message me if you all have stuff from Michochan, Jalisco and Guanjanto in Mexico to help build a Mexican settler and tribal garden next year in my community to remember my local past.
Take care.

Good evening friends! How are you? Blake is continuing his hunt for more European settler or traditional European crops to help restore his community's past in Chicago to edify all. Here's his list this fall.
1. Gorthork cabbage
2. Viceroy parsnip
3. Uncle John kale
4. Irish pea
5. Tipperary turnip (green top)
6. Swedish red pea
7. German salad cucumber
8. More Red Dutch cabbage
9. More Futog cabbage
10. Dutch giant pumpkin
11. Old Serbian melon
12. Sunny Creek cucumber
13. Serbian white pumpkin
14. Osmak white corn
15. Osmak red corn
16. German black or yellow carrot
17. Bosnian or Serbian basil
18. Croatian broccoli
19. Leda lettuce or Serbian winter lettuce
20. Grandistac bean
If anybody has those, please let me know in the Purple Mooseage. Also looking for more rare Mexican types such as those from Michochan, Jalisco and Guanjanto if any of you have those. Take care.

Good evening friends! Blake back for his fall list of targets to grow either this year in autumn or next year and here's a short list.
1. Gorthork cabbage
2. Viceroy parsnip
3. Tipperary turnip (one with green top)
4. Dithmarscher cabbage
5. More Red Dutch cabbage
6. Leda lettuce
7. Sunny Creek cucumber
8. Old Serbian melon
9. Potawatomi muskmelon
10. Wea Fall bean or Miami scarlet runner beans
Those are my targets for this fall and next year to help restore my community's past. Please shoot me back at the Purple Mooseage if you need me. Forgot! Also wanna list Osmak or Serbian white corn and Slovenian red onions if you need me. Good night.

Good evening friends! How are you? Blake has been so devastated about the loss of all of his Choctaw red corn and they an heirloom to my Mississippi past. Had high hopes this year after the work I put into growing them this year, but all went to flames by critters chewing every last ear.
Don't know what to do or where to go. How we protect our corn this late without netting or other complex commercial material? Are there any natural or homemade remedies to stop squirrels or other pesky creatures? Did all I could to protect my corn, but weather and creatures are too much. Please drop off any feedback if you need me. Good night.

Good afternoon! Could dead hedgerows be used as brush piles and have vegetation grow over them to draw in pollinators and other creatures? I'm trying to draw more birds, insects and other small creatures to my areas of my gardens to create a community. Thanks!