Jeff Anthony and Rodney Gabriel run Pinewood Springs Farm in Stockbridge, Georgia. And I’m excited to announce that today we added their Seven Top Turnip seeds to our Truelove Seeds catalog! Thanks Jeff and Antony for collaborating with us in this way! We love following your work and learning about the seeds and crops most important to you and your communities. Here’s our description: Seven Top Turnip is the standard amongst lovers of Turnip greens throughout the Southern US, including in the gardens and on the table of Truelove Seeds' co-founder Chris Bolden Newsome's family in the Mississippi Delta. Dating back to the 1830s in Virginia, this variety is an unusual turnip in that it does not grow an edible root, instead focusing its energies on creating lots of delicious leaves. While most turnips are grown for animal forage (roots and leaves), this leafy variety is grown in kitchen gardens exclusively for the human dinner table. If eaten raw in salads, harvest at 6-9 inches. We harvest them for cooking greens, which you can do even when they are two feet tall. Slow Food International has designated Seven Top Turnips as a culturally important and endangered variety in their Ark of Taste. They explain: "In southern cookery it was particularly favored in wilted salads, in which hot bacon grease and salt are poured over the fresh, washed greens." In our house, we simply sauté them with lots of onions, garlic, peppers, and seasoning, and often mix them with other greens, especially mustards. #seedkeeping #seventopturnips #7topturnip #turnipgreens @pinewoodspringsfarm (at Pinewood Springs Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLGHNvBgViB/?igshid=ezveqlnzrrei
