Acorn Community is is a 72-acre certified organic farm. Founding member Ira Wallace says it's a place where all the members live equally among each other, benefitting from their seed company called ...

Over the past decade, heirloom crops have made an incredible comeback, with growers embracing different varieties of tomatoes, beans, potatoes, carrots, apples and more. Now, a small movement is ...

Whether you boil them in other sauces, make a broth, fry them lightly or eat them raw in a salad, you can rest assured that collard greens’ place on the dining table will be preserved for posterity.

Ira Wallace ambles around the butcher block countertop in the kitchen she shares with a community of farmers in central Virginia. She has separated a single leaf from the large baskets of unusual, ...

Collard greens are mandatory on any soul food menu and are often the star of a Black family dinner table. The history of these glorious greens can be traced to enslaved African Americans and poor ...

Collard greens at the grocery store tend to be monotonous, making up rows and rows of wide leafy bundles. But in reality, there are dozens of varieties of the staple vegetable. The Jernigan Yellow ...

Find out how to grow collard greens, a classic Southern vegetable that thrives in cool weather. Collard greens do best when grown in an area that receives full to partial sun. These leafy greens are ...

You love collard greens, but did you know there are so many varieties to love? And so many ways to love them? Like many vegetables, collards are mostly sold as just plain “collards” at the grocery ...

Collards were once as diverse as the Southern families they fed, but countless varieties have vanished. The race is on to preserve and propagate.... A community of seed savers has a recipe to revive ...

The Heirloom Collard Project, launched in 2016, called out to seed savers in the Carolina states, asking for rare varieties to regenerate and share. Whether you boil them in other sauces, make a broth ...

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These collards have names: Meet "Big Daddy Greasy Green" and "Granny Hobbs" Wallace, 73, is doing a lot of the work as part of a group of seed savers, farmers, activists and academics, known ...