By Melissa Kruse-Peeples, NS/S Conservation Program Manager.
Whether it is red or green in New Mexico, spicy jalapeños of Tex-mex recipes, or fiery chiltepines of the borderlands, chiles are synonymous with Southwestern cuisine and central to our culinary identity. Chiles are also a large pa...
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BUY SEEDS
- Popular Warm Season Varieties
- Popular Cool Season Varieties
- Gift Card
- Seed Saving Supplies
- 2024 Seedlisting
- Monsoon Collection
- Amaranth
- Arugula
- Beans
- Beets
- Broccoli
- Brussels Sprouts
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Chiles/Peppers
- Chiltepines (Wild Chiles)
- Corn
- Cotton
- Cowpeas/Black-Eyed Peas
- Cucumbers
- Devil's Claw
- Eggplant
- Gourds
- Greens - Cool Season
- Greens - Warm Season
- Herbs
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Luffa
- Melons
- Mustards
- Okra
- Onions and Garlic
- Panic Grass
- Parsnips
- Peas
- Radishes
- Sorghum
- Spinach
- Squash
- Sunflowers
- Swiss Chard
- Tobacco
- Tomatillos
- Tomatoes
- Turnips
- Watermelons
- Wheat
- Wildflowers
- Crop Wild Relatives
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BUY SEEDS
- Popular Warm Season Varieties
- Popular Cool Season Varieties
- Gift Card
- Seed Saving Supplies
- 2024 Seedlisting
- Monsoon Collection
- Amaranth
- Arugula
- Beans
- Beets
- Broccoli
- Brussels Sprouts
- Cabbage
- Carrots
- Chiles/Peppers
- Chiltepines (Wild Chiles)
- Corn
- Cotton
- Cowpeas/Black-Eyed Peas
- Cucumbers
- Devil's Claw
- Eggplant
- Gourds
- Greens - Cool Season
- Greens - Warm Season
- Herbs
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Luffa
- Melons
- Mustards
- Okra
- Onions and Garlic
- Panic Grass
- Parsnips
- Peas
- Radishes
- Sorghum
- Spinach
- Squash
- Sunflowers
- Swiss Chard
- Tobacco
- Tomatillos
- Tomatoes
- Turnips
- Watermelons
- Wheat
- Wildflowers
- Crop Wild Relatives
New On Our Blog
Pop Science
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Joy Hought
By Joy Hought, NS/S Research & Education Program Manager and Melissa Kruse-Peeples, Conservation Program Manager. Published on January 23, 2015.
The earliest varieties of maize must certainly have had small kernels as hard as glass.– Edgar Anderson & Hugh Cutler, Races of Maize
In many wa...
Cowpea Season
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Sheryl Joy
By Sheryl Joy, NS/S Seed Distribution Coordinator. Published on December 23, 2014.
‘Tis the season … when the humble cowpea has its moment of fame! For those with African-American or Southern roots, Hoppin’ John is the traditional meal on New Year's Day. There are many variations on the Hoppin’ J...
The Squash Chronicles, Continued: Grow Winter Squash in the Summertime with this Crazy Old Trick!
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Sheryl Joy
By Sheryl Joy, NS/S Seed Distribution Coordinator. Published on October 28, 2014.
So what’s the trick?? All squash grows in the summer time! But squash terminology is undoubtedly a bit confusing. It’s not unusual for us here at NS/S to get questions like "What sort of winter squash should I plant...
Recovering and Reviving Our Original Diet
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Betsy Armstrong
By Elizabeth Pantoja, NS/S Conservation Intern. Published September 25, 2014.
Recently I came across some great information put together by Aztec Stories that talked about the importance of including our original foods in our present diet. By this I mean eating foods that have originally grown he...
Diversity in Amaranth
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Joy Hought
By Joy Hought, NS/S Research & Education Program Manager. Published on September 20, 2014.
A few days ago we harvested mature stalks from about 15 amaranth accessions at the NS/S Conservation Farm, in preparation for our workshop on October 4th. Melissa, our Conservation Program Manager, then...
Introducing the Cucurbitaceae
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Liz Fairchild
By Liz Fairchild, Retail Assistant
Maybe, like me, you’ve wondered before about distinctions between varieties within the squash family, or cucurbits. For example, all the squash packets in our collection state that one may consume the fruit "when small and immature as summer squash, and mature a...
The Beauty of Huitlacoche
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Melissa Kruse-Peeples
By Melissa Kruse-Peeples, NS/S Conservation Program Manager. Published on August 26, 2014.
Corn is a versatile ingredient. It is fresh roasted, ground to make cornbread or tortillas, dried and reconstituted into posole, and everything in between. But there is one way to eat and cook corn that may...
Squash Varieties Newly Available From Our Seed Bank
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Sheryl Joy
By Sheryl Joy, NS/S Seed Distribution CoordinatorPublished on August 12, 2014
There are some squashes newly available from the NS/S Collection, so if you have some space left in your monsoon garden, you might try one of these… or start planning for next year! We are pleased that recent growouts p...
ABCs of Monsoon Planting
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Sheryl Joy
By Melissa Kruse-Peeples, NS/S Conservation Program Manager and Sheryl Joy, Seed Distribution Coordinator.
The summer rainy season is off to a good start and therefore it’s time to get out in the garden! For many seed varieties in the Native Seeds/SEARCH collection, this is traditional time to p...