Cucumbers
Cucumbers are easy and delicious! Eat them raw as a snack or throw them on top of a salad, but you can also pickle, sautee, bake, or boil cucumbers. There are many varieties and most taste and look different- try them all!
Downloads (PDF):
Reading List:
» A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds by Jean Richards
» Cool as a Cucumber by Michael Morpurgo & Cassandra Harwood (Audio Book)
» Cucumber Sandwiches, by Marlene Marlowe
Activities:
Recipes:
Cucumber Tomatillo Gazpacho
Spicy Thai Cucumber Salad
Easy Kosher Dill Pickles
Roasted Cucumbers with Cream and Horseradish
Articles:
Justice and Liberation Story
Photo Credit: Heirloom Gardens Project
Saving seeds is a creative at-home activity, and a way to instill the importance of passing knowledge onto the next generation. For our July HOTM product, we invite you to save cucumber seeds with your family and to learn about the cultural practices of seed saving in Black and Indigenous communities.
The Heirloom Gardens Project is collaboration between Princeton University, Spelman College’s Food Studies program, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance which aims to memorialize long-held expertise and culturally meaningful foods in Black and Indigenous communities across Appalachia & the southeastern United States.
The goal of the HGP is to see that this knowledge is used in the future to improve access to farming, gardening, food accessibility and land sovereignty for Black and Indigenous peoples.
With the urgency of the pandemic impacting elders, and African American history being banned from schools in certain parts of the country, community members' conversations have been made accessible through these public archives in order to preserve and protect it for future generations.
