Ira Wallace ambles around the butcher block countertop in the kitchen she shares with a community of farmers in central Virginia. She has separated a single leaf from the large baskets of unusual, ...

Acorn Community is is a 72-acre certified organic farm. Founding member Ira Wallace says it's a place where all the members live equally among each other, benefitting from their seed company called ...

Whether you boil them in other sauces, make a broth, fry them lightly or eat them raw in a salad, you can rest assured that collard greens’ place on the dining table will be preserved for posterity.

Over the past decade, heirloom crops have made an incredible comeback, with growers embracing different varieties of tomatoes, beans, potatoes, carrots, apples and more. Now, a small movement is ...

Collard greens at the grocery store tend to be monotonous, making up rows and rows of wide leafy bundles. But in reality, there are dozens of varieties of the staple vegetable. The Jernigan Yellow ...

Collards were once as diverse as the Southern families they fed, but countless varieties have vanished. The race is on to preserve and propagate.... A community of seed savers has a recipe to revive ...

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These collards have names: Meet "Big Daddy Greasy Green" and "Granny Hobbs" Wallace, 73, is doing a lot of the work as part of a group of seed savers, farmers, activists and academics, known ...