Check out this beautiful cob of Lenape Blue Corn I harvested a few days ago. Grown on East 91st, btw Avenues L & M in Canarsie -- an area that once part of the Canarsee Indian Planting Lands.
Lenape Blue Flour Corn is actually named "Sehsapsing" and was originally brought to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) by the family of Sarah Wilson Thompson, a full-blooded Lenape who lived on the Delaware Reservation. Her family migrated from their original homeland in what is now New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and northern Delaware.
The Lenape Blue Corn seeds for this project were generously donated by Tony West from Appalachian Heirloom Plant Farm, Winchester, Ohio with the agreement that I will return a portion of the seeds back to him.
I love this cob of corn!
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