flowering plant in the amaranth family with edible seeds Above Average Amaranth Mix – Giving Ground Seeds
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flowering plant in the amaranth family with edible seeds

flowering plant in the amaranth family with edible seeds Above Average Amaranth Mix – Giving Ground Seeds

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flowering plant in the amaranth family with edible seeds Above Average Amaranth Mix – Giving Ground SeedsQuick facts *Diverse Population ALERT* Grow this population as is or use for your at home plant breeding project. Its crop adaptation made simple select those plants that grow best for you, save seeds, plant them next year, and repeat. *Heat Drought ALERT* Adapted to thrive in tough conditions, heat, and drought *Low Impact Food ALERT* This crop gets by on less. It needs less water and nutrient inputs than other foods. *Marginal Soils ALERT* Bloom

Quick facts

  • *Diverse Population ALERT* Grow this population as is or use for your at home plant breeding project. It’s crop adaptation made simple- select those plants that grow best for you, save seeds, plant them next year, and repeat.

    *Heat/Drought ALERT* Adapted to thrive in tough conditions, heat, and drought

    *Low Impact Food ALERT* This crop gets by on less. It needs less water and nutrient inputs than other foods.

    *Marginal Soils ALERT* Bloom where you’re planted! This crop is resilient and adapted to thrive on marginal soils with low fertility.

  • Tall, diverse population
  • Mixture of colors
  • Pop like popcorn or cook into porridge

Amaranthus sp.

A diverse population you can grow and eat "as is" or start your plant breeding selection project with.  This is three of our out-performing amaranth varieties mixed together.  Enjoy a diversity of flower, plant, and seed colors.  Let the wind mix the pollen (amaranth is wind pollinated) and save the seed from the best plants to grow out next year.  Begin narrowing the population to suit you and your garden by selecting the plants with the traits you want and save seed from those.  

You can also cook these like you would any other amaranth- into a porridge, or our personal favorite- crackers!  Check out this great recipe for amaranth crackers from IndigiKitchen.  We love exploring additions to these like rosemary, honey, nutmeg... The possibilities are endless.

More about amaranth:

Amaranth is a unique and ancient grain native to the Americas.  It was a staple food of the Aztecs, Inca, and Mayan and was first cultivated in 8,000 BC.  It is still of huge importance in Central America, where it thrives not only as a resilient, low impact staple food but as spiritual symbol of cultural thriving.

We have followed the work of the non-profit Garden's Edge ever since being introduced to their work at the Santa Rosa Heirloom Festival in 2014.  Working in Guatemala, Garden's Edge "supports sustainable agriculture, micro-enterprise, and education in rural communities in order to revitalize cultural knowledge and improve economic well-being."  Central to their work is amaranth, as they assist indigenous communities in preserving local amaranth varieties that are vulnerable due to colonization and civil war.  Please learn more about their work with indigenous communities and amaranth, and find traditional recipes, HERE.

We grow amaranth because it simply thrives in our hot, dry, summers and we want to promote it as a low-impact, high nutrition plant for a changing world.  The grain separates quite easily from the plant when ripe, and can easily be winnowed in a light wind. 

Eat the tender young leaves, pop the grains, or make a nutrient dense porridge.  The possibilities are really endless.  Find Josselin Chun's recipe for Amaranth Torta here!  Amaranth is resilient and easy to grow, and the 2 varieties we grow mature well in our short season climate.  It's tall and vigorous and easily outcompetes weeds- so its great for organic gardens.  

For more information, we LOVED this article from Edible New Mexico about amaranth.

How to grow it:

Germ Temp

Indoor Start

Germ Days

Frost Tolerant

Sun

Seed Depth

Plant/Row Spacing

60-85F

5 weeks

7-14 d.

No

Full to part shade

1/8”

12”/12”

We prefer to start amaranth in pots indoors in early April for planting out in May or June after danger of frost has passed.  Alternatively, direct sow after last frost date, covering lightly.  Thin to 12 inches between plants.  Harvest amaranth heads in August once black seeds start to fall- be sure to cut them before too many fall!  Harvest into a bag, beat or stomp on the bags to free the seeds from the head, and use screens or fans to separate seeds from chaff.

Seed specs:  Packet size- 1/2 g., ~500 seeds

 

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