Cowpeas, Survival and Liberation
The long roots of a New Year's tradition / Marking one year of this Almanac
The cowpea harvest was meager this year. By all accounts, they should have done fine: as a crop, cowpeas are hardly perturbed by heat and drought. We’ve been selecting ours for high production in adverse conditions for years, holding back seed from the longest pods (over 20 beans) which have suffered the most neglect. But cowpeas don’t begin to produce …