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Collards greens take center stage as New Year's Day tradition approaches

Collards are by no means the mainstay at Garrison Acres Farm. Owner Tom Garrison primarily raises cattle, and he does pretty well with summer vegetables and melons, too. Collards take up only about ...
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Collard enthusiasts are using science and preservation to lift up rare varieties of the leafy green

These proud gardeners are known as seed savers. Over the years, families would grow collards and keep the seeds to pass along to future generations. Across the South, Davis asked the farmers for a ...
The State

SC, home of the nation’s collards, aims to grow a better green to beat pests, warming climate

A dozen specimens might qualify as an impressive collection of Antarctic minerals or Amazonian minnows, but it’s a measly mess of collard greens. So, in the early 1990s, when Agricultural Research ...
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Collard enthusiasts are using science and preservation to lift up rare varieties of the leafy green

Hundreds of collard greens are evenly planted in rows inside a softly-lit greenhouse at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Innovation Center in East St. Louis, Illinois. These ...
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Collard enthusiasts are using science and preservation to lift up rare varieties of the leafy green

DeZha Smith, at 21-year-old farmer from north St. Louis, surveys dozens of collard green plants at the Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center in East St. Louis, Ill. The plants are part of a study examining the ...