Post by buffaloberry on Jul 2, 2023 7:17:09 GMT -6
Good morning peoples! I wanna find out if the white lima bean was among the most common Native American beans in the southeast from Virginia to Florida and westward to the Gulf Coast. I am trying to grow an authentic and historic Cherokee and Natchez tribal garden to help honor my late Freedwoman grandmother from the Cherokee reservation and the rest of my family's ancestry in Mississippi and Louisiana where there were many Creole settlers in areas such as Greenville, Mississippi. Any documentation of how the beans and when they were grown in these areas? I'm looking for more historic documentation of these beans to get a better understanding and an idea on how I restore my Southeast Native American gardens back to the periods of the 1600s to the 1830s where all native peoples were present at that time. Did early settlers also have the bean back then? Please let me know if you all have any more historic info of these beans. Take care.