We pre-sprouted Havasupai sunflower (that have an interesting history you can read about in our last post here). We planted the pre-sprouted seeds on the edges of our two corn quadrants. The sunflowers are currently drying, at which point, I’ll post a count of how many seeds [achenes] per plant. The following are a series…
At the start of growing season, we planted sunflowers on the edges of our corn quadrants as part of our plot. They weren’t just any sunflowers, but Havasupai sunflowers. Havasupai sunflowers have an interesting place in the recent, as well as past history of sunflowers. The Havasupai have an interesting tradition of combining agriculture with…
If you missed the first post in the interesting history of agriculture amongst the native Americans of the Great Plains — and the records of Buffalo Bird Woman and the Hidatsa red bean — check it out here. After that, here our some first looks at our hidatsa red bean harvest. Following Buffalo Bird…
As we mentioned in the last post on Hopi Blue Corn, the quadrant that was not pre-sprouted (quadrant 2) did very poorly in comparison to the quadrant that was pre-sprouted (quadrant 1). At the end of the season, before the first predicted freeze (which unfortunately came very early) we tallied the results of the corn…
Our next zea mays is Hopi Blue Corn. But which Hopi Blue? There are actually at least four different types of Hopi varieties of blue corn, but you wouldn’t know that from the common label of ‘Hopi Blue.’
Ethnobiologists don’t unanimously agree on whether the common bean, phasoleus vulgaris, originated in one place or two, like the Lima, but they are certain that — like other beans, squash, and corn — it came from the southern hemisphere of America, a long, long time ago.
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