Now available! Odell’s Large White Watermelon fruits are gigantic with sweet, pink, juicy
Now available! Odell’s Large White Watermelon fruits are gigantic with sweet, pink, juicy flesh, light green skin, and white seeds (though not very many). The rinds are tender, almost as sweet as the flesh, and great for pickling. While watermelons were first domesticated in Africa, this is one of few that are known to be a variety connected to a particular African American person, who in this case is an unnamed man who selected this variety during or before the 1840s on a plantation in Pomaria, SC. Our original seed came from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. Theirs came from Rodger Winn whose wife Karen Metzes’s family has stewarded this melon since 1880. Our coworker Amirah Mitchell advocated for us to include this variety at our farm this year. Amirah will be growing this variety for our catalog at her new farm project, Sistah Seeds, among dozens of other seed crops important to Africans and African Americans in the diaspora. This is a protected variety by the Slow Food Ark of Taste. Also known as White Stoney Mountain Watermelon. @sistahseeds @southernexposureseed @slowfoodusa https://www.instagram.com/p/CZ-uQBErda7/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link