

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Complete)
Our select African Diaspora plant inventory consists of more than 100 plants that are connected to the descendants of the Middle Passage.


FISH PEPPER - An enduring story of lost and found gardening history
This heirloom cultivar of capsicum annum originated in southern Mexico, but made its way to Caribbean and into North America,...


Black-Eyed Peas - At New Years and anytime
My earliest recollection black-eyed peas was our family mantra that you can't start the New Year without black-eyed peas, stewed tomatoes...
Goose Creek Tomato - A Family Heirloom
From Seed to Skillet begins with co-author Jimmy Williams telling us how gardening can be a generation to generation production, how his...
Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad Tomato
I’m very fond of the idea that I can grow something in my garden that was passed down from an African traveling to freedom through the...


Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
Black Rice tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through agricultural and historical evidence,...


In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical legacy in the Atlantic World
In the Shadow of Slavery is masterful scholarship that debunks the simple-minded notion that enslaved Africans came to America without...


From Seed to Skillet: A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Love
I met Jimmy Williams (and son Logan Williams) tending their wares at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market on a Sunday morning in Hollywood,...