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.
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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