Today I shipped out more calendars, and two orders are on a long journey to Australia! Thanks so much to everyone who has been supporting my seed keeping work and brightening their future walls with this monthly focus on seeds of Resilience and Resistance! Available at www.trueloveseeds.com
This week I’m highlighting the photo and caption from May 2018:
My friend Rachel Sayet sent me a Mohegan succotash recipe that calls for “Dwarf Horticultural Beans,” a type of cranberry bean that came to the U.S. in the 1800s from Italy. The recipe was written by Rachel’s great-granduncle, Harold Tantaquidgeon, and published in her mother (and Mohegan medicine woman) Melissa Tantaquidgeon’s 1994 book, “The Lasting of the Mohegans.”
As a descendant of Italian immigrants who grew up on Mohegan land, I decided to grow these Borlotto beans to honor the resilience of the native people in Connecticut, and to hold onto Italian culture despite generations of assimilation.
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