Author Topic: cherokee trail of tears - anyone want a few? (Read 6096 times)

vjm63 · « **on:** September 30, 2010, 08:37:13 »

I grew this from some seed given to me earlier this year from someone on A4A - generous person! Now I have got quite a lot - is there anyone else interested in growing it?

Nothing needed in return - I'd just want an sae, please.

PM me if you are interested.

Thanks.

Ellen K · « **Reply #1 on:** September 30, 2010, 08:43:46 »

oooo ... I would love to grow these, don't need many seeds, just enough for maybe 10 plants. Off to explore the site mail function. Thank you very much.

DawnF · « **Reply #2 on:** September 30, 2010, 22:45:39 »

Hi,
I would love to try these too.
Can I possibly have 10 beans so I can plant 2 rows?

Thank you in advance

DawnF

Tin Shed · « **Reply #3 on:** September 30, 2010, 22:56:19 »

I would love to try them as well - will send you a pm.

Thank you very much

Ellen K · « **Reply #4 on:** October 11, 2010, 15:42:11 »

The beans are here, thank you very much.

Can't wait for next year to give them a go.

saddad · « **Reply #5 on:** October 25, 2010, 23:18:23 »

A great bean... I have plenty if anyone else is interested. Just taken in the last and shelled out for casseroles... lots properly dried and saved though... :)

Sinbad7 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 26, 2010, 00:33:21 »

Would love to try these if you still have a few to spare Saddad, please.

saddad · « **Reply #7 on:** October 26, 2010, 07:51:32 »

Just pm me a postal addy Sinbad :)

Nigel B · « **Reply #8 on:** October 26, 2010, 09:48:09 »

Oh yes please.

May I?

saddad · « **Reply #9 on:** October 26, 2010, 13:06:10 »

Naturally... part of the work of the HSL is to get the heritage varieties out there and growing... :)

I love digging · « **Reply #10 on:** October 26, 2010, 13:37:01 »

Ooh, could I try some, do you think? Please.

Sinbad7 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2010, 15:55:31 »

Many thanks Saddad, will go and do it right now.

saddad · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2010, 00:51:49 »

OK you three they are bagged up (30+) each and in addressed envelopes... just need to check "stamps" so should be ijn the post "today" ;D

Nigel B · « **Reply #13 on:** October 28, 2010, 11:55:36 »

Wey-Hey. 8)

A slightly battered envelope arrived, containing perfectly all-right seeds.

Many thanks Saddad. It's refreshing to see the spirit of allotmenteering alive and well here..... ;D

Nigel.

I love digging · « **Reply #14 on:** October 28, 2010, 17:59:18 »

Mine arrived today too. Thanks Saddad. My daughter wants to know if I'm going to trade my for a cow (a la Jack and the Beanstalk)!

Sinbad7 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 28, 2010, 19:20:02 »

Nothing here but I have high hopes for tomorrow.

saddad · « **Reply #16 on:** October 28, 2010, 23:41:50 »

Quote from: I love digging on October 28, 2010, 17:59:18

Mine arrived today too. Thanks Saddad. My daughter wants to know if I'm going to trade my for a cow (a la Jack and the Beanstalk)!

No she needs "Ryder's Top of the Pole" for that... have those too! Need 10' poles really! :)

Sinbad7 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 28, 2010, 23:59:24 »

I thought this was very moving when I read it and look forward even more to growing them.

In 1839 the US government forced most of the people of the Cherokee nation to walk west from Georgia, North Carolina, northeastern Alabama, and Tennessee to what is now Oklahoma. The distance traveled by most of the people was about 1,000 miles, with the vast majority of the travelers making the entire journey by foot. The forced march, now called the Trail of Tears, began in October of 1839. Cherokee people walked the thousand miles over the course of a harsh winter. The walk began after many had already been held for months in internment camps, where conditions were degrading, violent, and cruel. By the time the removal was over, roughly one-third of the men, women, and children had died.

When the time of internment and removal began, many Cherokee people were forced to pack quickly. People took only what they could carry, often having to decide in a hurry what was most important to them that could be taken on the journey to an unknown new home. Some people carried seeds.

The seeds of dry black beans now called the Cherokee Trail of Tears Black Bean were grown in the mountains of Western North Carolina for thousands of years. Someone carried them on the Trail of Tears. A Cherokee man in Oklahoma donated seeds from this bean variety to the Seed Savers Exchange and so we are able to bring a
few back to the mountains to plant in our river valley, where Cherokee people and their ancestors lived for thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans.

How do we retrace the steps of these ancestors and recover the intimacy with the natural world that was at the core of their systems of living? By planting a bean, covering it with dirt, giving it water and sun. By encouraging all of the life in the soil and air and water that nurtures the seed: worms, beneficial insects, microscopic life forms. By cultivating intimate relationships with the plants that feed us and the earth, air, water, and light that feed them. By preserving the seeds that sustain human life for another generation

Sinbad7 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 31, 2010, 22:16:31 »

I still have high hopes that they will come tomorrow, hope they haven't gone astray.

saddad · « **Reply #19 on:** October 31, 2010, 22:25:29 »

If they do I still have plenty... ;D

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