Blake Lenoir

By the way, I'm talking about my great grandfather Abraham who has some Irish and Creole ancestry through his wife Sarah. Looking forward to more help in unlocking the truth about our past. Good night!

Thanks for seeing me Ash. I'd like some help on finding more truth to my great grandparents Adam and Eva Mae Fry and were living in Freeport at the time. Also like for us to report about my father's death in Chicago to pass onto folks in Freeport, Rockford and Milwaukee where my great aunts Shirley and Willa Davis reside. Also trying to find more truth about my grandfather's Irish past and Eva's Cherokee past in Oklahoma and she stood there for 18 years before leaving for Iowa, Michigan and Illinois in Freeport where my dad Darryl was born. My great grandfather Adam stayed in Muskegon, Michigan with Eva alongside Native Americans before leaving for Freeport. Darryl told me about this before he left this earth. Thanks for dropping by.

Good evening folks! How are you? Blake's trying to find his true relatives and family members from his past from my dad's side since he died a few weeks ago at his apartment in Chicago and I was wondering if any of you know anybody from Freeport, Illinois, Rockford, Illinois and Milwaukee and here some names of my folks and where they currently stay.
1. Cheryl Lenoir Rockford, Illinois
2. Terrance Lenoir Round Lake Beach, Illinois
3. Ava ( Andrew Jr)
4. Ivy Great Lakes, Illinois
5. Darla Lenoir Atlanta
6. Abraham Utip Lenoir III Great Lakes, Illinois
7. La Prisha Lenoir
8. Keyarah Lenoir
9. Shane Smith
10. Allahnia Lenoir
11. Ralph Jean Lenoir Freeport, Illinois
12. Rose Marie (Oather Jr)
13. Taylor Lenoir Freeport, Illinois
14. Alvin Jean Lenoir Atlanta
15. Vicki Kendrick Lakeland, Florida
16. Willa Mae Davis Milwaukee
17. Shirley Davis Milwaukee
Those are my relatives and family members. I have a great grandma in Eva Mae Fry born in 1918 in Oklahoma and was a Cherokee Freedwoman as is my aunt Willa, currently alive in Milwaukee in her 90s and lives in the Native American community just as my great grandpa Adam. If there's any Irish or Creole ties in the Lenoir or Davis side of my family, please let me know in the Purple Mooseage site. My dad's name is Darryl and he has been a main guide to my life as a gardener, artist and person and I'm a better man because of him. If you found any of my folks from Freeport, Rockford or Milwaukee and know any of them, please send them to my Purple Mooseage page and I'll get a chance to chat with them since I lost my dad from this earth. Take care

Cool! Cool! My sunflowers are like that too in one of my growing plots. You had goldfinches visiting your cup plants if you have any? I had a lot of them visiting and feeding from my cup plants this year. Good seeing ya!

Good evening friends! How are you? Blake wants to find out if the 1,000 year kale has a long history in Ireland and the rest of the British Isles cause he's trying to restore his Irish garden back into the 1700s and 1800s to help the Irish community in his hometown remember their motherland and true past. I'm also trying to remember my late grandpa's past since he has some Irish ancestry and my community's past. Do any of you all know of any other types of kale grown in Ireland besides the curled and 1,000 leaf kales in the 1700s and 1800s? Thanks!

Good evening friends! Blake is searching for more help in acquiring some varieties of crops to help improve his European settler gardens to honor his community's past in Chicago to edify everyone. Here's his list.
1. Gros Vert De Laon Artichoke ( very interested in the tasty buds of the head of the plant and wanna honor Jacques Marquette the famous French explorer who came to the Great Lakes centuries ago)
2. Osmak flint corn ( have some deep Serbian settler roots in my community in the late 1800s and wanna commemorate those who contributed economically in my community)
3. Glendale or Gortahork cabbage ( got some Irish ancestry from my late grandfather and also have some Irish ancestry in my community)
4. Irish black oat (also need those for my Irish garden next year)
5. Red stem leaf celery (looking for the true authentic Irish one)
6. Serbian melon ( heard they have a dry sweet potato taste in them but I'd like to grow those for the Serbian community)
7. Rosscoff cauliflower ( heard a lot about it and its tasty flavor)
Those are the hard to find types and acquire from seed companies in Europe. Any of you grew any of these before? It will be challenging to bring these varieties to America cause of the procedures. If you all know somebody who has these types and easy to acquire please let me know. Please reach me in the Purple Moosage site for more details about them. Good night!

Good afternoon folks! Very interested in having skirret in my Irish garden next year to honor my late grandfather who has some Irish ancestry and my community's early Irish past. Where can we find roots of the skirret and how we cook it as I'm new to this? Thanks!

Thanks! How you been? Wanna find out how we cook skirret. And what about for walking onions?

What's going on! I'm from the Midwest in Chicago and am in Zone 6. Trying to find out if I could plant some perennial vegetable types into my native edible or food forest gardens without them going outta control. I'm considering some perennial spinach, onions and other edible roots that have rich historic background and rich flavor. One of those is the skirret and I've tried to grow those from seed, but didn't work out that way. How we grow skirett in this country?

Good evening folks! I'm looking to add some cover crops to my Three or Five sister gardens before the year's out. Which cover crops are safe to plant in my Three Sister gardens this fall? I know buckwheats and rye came from European settlers, but are there more out there which help enrich the soil and life into our gardens year in and year out? could rye, oats and other stuff work also? I've planted marigolds for butterflies and stuff in my Three Sister garden and went ok. Please reach me if you need me. Good night!