#heirloompeppers

[seedkeeping]

Aji Amarillo flower over a cap full of fruits. I harvest into my hat almost every day. This pepper is native to the Andes and has been called the most important ingredient in Peruvian cuisine as it is the cornerstone to many essential traditional dishes. It is hot, sweet, and fruity. When dried, it is called Aji Mirasol. On the plants, the young fruits start out green, turn yellow, and ripen a fiery orange. #capsicumbaccatum #ajiamarillo #aji #heirloompeppers #peruvianpeppers #seedkeeping (at Delaware County, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

The Fish Pepper. The white unripe fruit were used to flavor seafood dishes in the Black catering community of Baltimore in the early 1900s. More often than not, the unripe fruit are white and green, like the variegated foliage. Horace Pippin, the now-famed painter, shared this variety (and many others) with H. Ralph Weaver in the early 1940s in exchange for bee-sting therapy. Weaver's grandson (William Woys Weaver) found the seeds in a baby food jar in his grandmother's deep freezer still viable a couple decades later, and many years after his grandfather's death. I love the spicy and sweet flavor of the ripe red fruits and so we make large batches of red fish pepper sauce every year. #fishpepper #capsicumannuum #williamwoysweaver #horacepippin #heirloompeppers (at Delaware County, Pennsylvania)

[seedkeeping]

Aji Amarillo flowers over a cuddle puddle of fruits, on top of their own leaves and also those of Huacatay. This pepper is native to the Andes and has been called the most important ingredient in Peruvian cuisine as it is the cornerstone to many essential traditional dishes. It is hot, sweet, and fruity. When dried, it is called Aji Mirasol. On the plants, the young fruits start out green, turn yellow, and ripen this fiery orange. #capsicumbaccatum #ajiamarillo #aji #heirloompeppers #peruvianpeppers #seedkeeping #trueloveseeds https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn_3_7XF4OQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=foq0elpj03yr

[thegirlwiththetray]

This week's harvest. #heirloompeppers #bellpeppers #shishitopeppers #jalepenopoppers #anaheimpeppers #homegarden #homegrown

[seedkeeping]

Jimmy Nardello’s parents Giuseppe and Angela Nardiello grew these peppers in the mountainous Basilicata region of Southern Italy, in a village called Ruoti - which is a couple hours through the mountains from my great great grandparents’ village of Salento, in the Campania region. In 1887, the Nardiellos moved to Naugatuck, Connecticut - just 15 minutes from Shelton where my family, the Lauriellos moved shortly after. The Nardiellos became Nardellos, and Vincenzo and Angelina Lauriello became James and Julia Laurella. Jimmy Nardello was born in Connecticut and was the only one of 11 siblings to keep up the gardening. My great greats and greats did grow lots of food in Connecticut, but their children and grand children did not. Jimmy passed this pepper - his favorite of hundreds that he grew in his terraced gardens - on to Seed Savers Exchange before he died in 1983. It is a delicious and prolific sweet frying pepper, and it is perhaps one of the seeds I feel most connected to now since I’ve had to reclaim my Southern Italian food heritage due to my family’s assimilation and disconnection from the land. Thank you to Kurt Michael Frieze’s article “Who is Jimmy Nardello?, The Story of the Jimmy Nardello Pepper” #jimmynardello #jimmynardellopeppers #heirloompeppers #fryingpeppers #dryingpeppers #sweetpeppers #freezingpeppers @seed_savers_exchange

[southernheirloom]

One of our favorite peppers: Jimmy Nardello’s Pepper #southernheirloomacres #jimmynardellopeppers #heirloompeppers #heirloomvegetables #pesticideherbicidefungicidefree #organiclygrown (at Southern Heirloom Acres)

[seedkeeping]

Hot Peppers from Kutztown! Clockwise: I wear a hanky and very gently and briefly blend the pepper fruits in water to extract the seeds; crate of Miscuchu Peppers (Capsicum chinense); crate of Orange Scotch Bonnet Peppers (Capsicum chinense); I stir the blended fruit, let the good seeds sink, pour off the flesh and unripe seeds, and repeat with added water until you have only good seed and clear water; strain the seeds and then lay out to dry on a labeled paper bag or butcher paper; crate of Buena Mulata Peppers (Capsicum annuum). Thanks to @pagermanculturalheritagecenter for providing the land and paid student workers to grow these peppers for Roughwood Seed Collection! All three varieties will be available soon (when they dry!) from @bakercreekseeds. #miscuchu #orangescotchbonnet #buenamulatapepper #capsicumannuum #capsicumchinense #capsicum #roughwoodseedcollection #kutztownseedfarm #seedsaving #heirloompeppers (at Devon, Pennsylvania)

[urbansproutfarms]

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#shitfarmerssay part 1 #growyourown #motivation #urbanfarming #heirloompeppers #corbaci #violetsparkle #serrano #onelove #organicfarming #eatmorepeppers #supportyourlocafarmer