The Poets Garden
Excess vegetables and fruits from our productive hillside small holding! Some available frozen or jammed up in the winter!
Abenaki Cultivar Jerusalem Artichokes
Abenaki agriculture was honed to this land and environment for 11,000 years.
UVM has a strong Agriculture Dept. Their research now includes Abenaki cultivars.
https://www.uvm.edu/news/extension/indigenous-vermont-crops
It was related to seasonal growth and use with areas becoming “farmed”. Our cultivar has several stands around the Poets’ Garden and spreads easily. At this time of the year with the back drop of Peak Leaf Season the yellow sun flowers are glorious and remind us of an ancient Peoples, who knew how to nourish and feed themselves from this land.
With eyes open, we are learning.
The health effects are spelled out in this website from Livestrong.com
https://www.livestrong.com/article/374796-health-benefits-of-jerusalem-artichokes/
“Sun chokes” are a hybrid. Mine are older heritage:”Abenaki”.
From The Dawn Land.
Growing, possibly as the Original People would have seen them.
Abenaki Cultivar Jerusalem Artichokes
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Abenaki agriculture was honed to this land and environment for 11,000 years.
UVM has a strong Agriculture Dept. Their research now includes Abenaki cultivars.
https://www.uvm.edu/news/extension/indigenous-vermont-crops
It was related to seasonal growth and use with areas becoming “farmed”. Our cultivar has several stands around the Poets’ Garden and spreads easily. At this time of the year with the back drop of Peak Leaf Season the yellow sun flowers are glorious and remind us of an ancient Peoples, who knew how to nourish and feed themselves from this land.
With eyes open, we are learning.
The health effects are spelled out in this website from Livestrong.com
https://www.livestrong.com/article/374796-health-benefits-of-jerusalem-artichokes/
“Sun chokes” are a hybrid. Mine are older heritage:”Abenaki”.
From The Dawn Land.
Growing, possibly as the Original People would have seen them.