Crape myrtles are blooming all over the place and Leah is DISGUSTED! What’s triggering thisLagerstroemiaphobia? Perhaps it’s not about the crape myrtles, but rather the living demons ofexurban hell? Next, Colleen reports on a storied gourd that vine borers can’t touch: the cushaw squash. Domesticated some time around the dawn of agriculture, the obscure cushaw took on special significance to African American foodways as a “slave food” staple. We discuss plants and memory, the merits of “folklore,” and the importance of heirloom seeds as “living archives” of cultural information.
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