{"product_id":"promiscuous-mixed-cowpea-bush-short-runners","title":"Promiscuous Mixed Cowpea (bush, short runners)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe were given seeds from our friends in North Carolina with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/theutopianseedproject.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Utopian Seed Project\u003c\/a\u003e. Here is the story from Chris:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is the beginnings of an African Pea Ultracross, created as part of a search for promiscuous peas! In most things related to seeds, I always first turn to Yanna Fishman, board member of The Utopian Seed Project and an incredible seed keeper. I told Yanna I was looking for African peas [A.K.A. southern peas, black-eyed peas, or cowpeas ‚[though they are not just food for cows!] and when I arrived for a visit she had pulled out jars and jars of different African pea varieties. They were diverse and beautiful, but there was one jar pushed to the corner labelled only 'Sports'. Yanna explained that she plants all of her peas pretty close to each other and hand shells everything. When she gets peas that don't look like their parents, she puts them off to one side and they all end up in the 'Sports' jar. It's quite likely the sports were actually crosses and this jar represented just the promiscuous peas I was looking for! In 2023 we planted two 50ft rows of Yanna's peas alonside one row of Joseph Lofthouse's landrace African peas. We also had plantings of 'Texas Green Emerald' (the green pea in the mix) and 'Rouge de Burkina Faso' (the red pea) planted in adjacent rows. This mix is a combination of all the seeds with high hopes of ongoing intercrossing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese were grown one season in our Florida gardens in the summer of 2024 and they took only a month and a half from seeding to seed harvest. The colorful mix is pleasing to look at, and makes a colorful cooking pot! They were mostly bushy type plants that made a great ground cover, with the occasional short runner reaching out across the beds. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Working Food Seed \u0026 Merch Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304250495165,"sku":null,"price":4.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1734\/5725\/files\/promcowpea3.jpg?v=1776973615","url":"https:\/\/workingfoodseeds.org\/products\/promiscuous-mixed-cowpea-bush-short-runners","provider":"Working Food ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}