{"product_id":"collard-seeds-north-carolina-ultracross","title":"Collard Seeds - North Carolina Ultracross","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 42, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSold out for 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrassica oleracea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"m_238010080857167796gmail-docs-internal-guid-e079de4c-7fff-f537-8ad0-929c55016438\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe North Carolina Collard Cross was developed across the 2024-2025 biennial season. Part of the ‘Collard Atlas', Utopian Seed Project’s collaboration with researcher Chris Keeve, this cross is the result of cross-pollination between 13 different collard varieties collected from North Carolina, including Nobling, North Carolina Yellow, Willis, Fuzzy’s Cabbage Collard, Old Timey Blue, William Moore, Minnie Mizelle, Ellen Felton, Hard Headed Cabbage Collard, Susan Turner, Brickhouse Old, EB Paul, and Bill’s Pea Ridge. They were stewarded by farmers and gardeners across the state as well as grown together at Tierra Negra Farm in Durham, North Carolina, before being processed and threshed at a seedkeeping workshop led by Chris Keeve at Duke Campus Farm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMost of these varieties were stewarded in backyards, gardens, and small farms for years before seed accessions from each found their way through USDA vaults, Seed Savers Exchange, and the Heirloom Collard Project. This dozen is only a small fraction of the diversity of collards across North Carolina and across the U.S. South more broadly. This grow out was part of a larger experiment to better understand the connections between people, plants, and place, honoring the stories of the foods that make regions and inviting people to cultivate new stories of their own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e1.75\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e gram packet contains a minimum of 250 seeds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSMALL FARM GROWN by Utopian Seed Project and Chris Kevee \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"- Collards -","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46750159634601,"sku":"031-009-1-C","price":4.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2550\/8730\/files\/image_df051b16-8f89-47fe-8f85-87cf219259a5.png?v=1772482136","url":"https:\/\/sowtrueseed.mom\/products\/collard-seeds-north-carolina-ultracross","provider":"Sow True Seed","version":"1.0","type":"link"}