Coupar Angus Market Garden - Sutherland Kale
| Title | Price |
|---|---|
| 1 x 200g | £2.00 |
This is the story of a vegetable facing extinction, a wise Scottish pensioner and the power of the Internet!
Vicky Schilling, a customer from Ullapool, sent a few seeds to Real Seeds in Wales ( we buy lots of our seeds from them), with a note explaining that she had been given them by Elizabeth Woolcombe, a 93-year-old woman from Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands. Ms Woolcombe knew it as an old variety that used to be popular with crofters.
She, in her turn, had been given some seeds half a century earlier by one Angus Simmonds, when he was researching kale at Edinburgh University.
The Real Seed folk believe Vicky Schilling’s kale plants may have been the last ones in existence until they started growing her seed for sale.
Not surprising that its oor favourite kale!
Vicky Schilling, a customer from Ullapool, sent a few seeds to Real Seeds in Wales ( we buy lots of our seeds from them), with a note explaining that she had been given them by Elizabeth Woolcombe, a 93-year-old woman from Sutherland in the Scottish Highlands. Ms Woolcombe knew it as an old variety that used to be popular with crofters.
She, in her turn, had been given some seeds half a century earlier by one Angus Simmonds, when he was researching kale at Edinburgh University.
The Real Seed folk believe Vicky Schilling’s kale plants may have been the last ones in existence until they started growing her seed for sale.
Not surprising that its oor favourite kale!
Shelf Life: 5 Days