An almond grows behind our house in Southwest Philadelphia. This year it is blooming for the first time in its life. We think the seed grew from one of my partner Chris’s trees at Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden down the street. We remember seeing it growing in the back yard from a dropped seed, and choosing to keep it there. Almonds were likely domesticated in Armenia and western Azerbaijan, which are the native lands of its probable wild ancestor: Prunus fenzliana. While humans brought the almond throughout the Middle East, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe, now the domesticated trees grow abundantly in California, and even in cold places like Iceland and Southwest Philadelphia. #almondflower #almond #seedkeeping #accidentalseedkeeping https://www.instagram.com/seedkeeping/p/Bv0RJbcF0nS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uvoegp3akd3a