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Vegetables: 

Culturally important/heritage seeds

- Palestinian Bomyeh Okra 

- Fish pepper 

- Chicago Callaloo

- hill Country red okra 

- white velvet okra 

- Sea island red okra 

- Carolina Cayenne pepper 

- seven top turnips 

- Carolina broadleaf mustard greens 

- green glaze collards 

- presto cress 

- Ethiopian burr gherkin 

- plate de Haiti tomato 

- Banadura Baladiyya Palestinian tomato 

- Korean silk flower 

- St. croix white bitter melon 

- Bagalhali tetra okra 

- creeping cucumber 

Reg seeds 

Heirloom Russian kale 

Fennel 

Red beets 

Yellowstone carrots 

Cosmic purple carrots 

Catacomb brown hot pepper 

Bulgarian carrot pepper 

Hybrid mini broccoli 

Legumes:

Culturally important/heritage:

- Ewa Oloyin (honey bean) 

- Tepary Pea

- Haricot Rouge de Burkina Faso

- Mississippi purple hull pea 

- “promiscuous pea mix” ( mix of different African pea varieties 

Reg seeds

- sugar magnolia sugar snap peas 

- sugar snap pea 

Fruit:

Culturally important/heritage

-Njama Njama (garden huckleberry) * primarily used for the greens though*

Reg

- Crimson sweet watermelon 

Flowers:

Culturally important/heritage 

- Tithonia (Mexican sunflower)

Reg

- Soraya sunflower 

- purple nicotiana (tobacco)

- sensation cosmo mix

- snapdragons ( multiple varieties) 

- Lacey dianthus 

- painted lady sweet pea

- after midnight poppy 

All herbs:

Culturally important/heritage 

- Abu Al-rub coriander (Palestinian) 

- Togolese hoary basil 

- Dire Dawa basil 

- Kondey island Tulsi

- Kilp Dagga 

- Blue sesame 

- scent leaf (clove basil) 

“Reg” 

-Shiso

- Fennel mix (like bronze fennel, doesn’t bulb) 

- chamomile 

- yarrow 

- calendula 

- lemon balm

- stinging Nettle 

- mugwort 

- Marshmallow 

- lavender 

- Anise hyssop (another favorite of mine, good to smoke) 

- thyme 

- borage (another favorite I grow every year) 

- st . John’s wort 

- sweet wormwood 

- bitter sneeze weed 

Grain and cane (all culturally important/heritage): 

- bolosso landcrae Teff (Ethiopian grain used to make injera) 

- Korjaj Sorghum (Sudanese variety) 

- sugar drip sorghum (well known to Virginia/appalachia 

 
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