EP. 13: Halima Salazar & Dria Price: Building a Bridge from Mississippi to Nigeria

This episode features Halima Salizar and Dria Price of Justevia Teas in Watervalley, Mississippi with a focus on their beloved food and medicine plants, their work, and the ways the food cultures of West Africa and the Southern US mirror each other. They grow, harvest, dry, and package their tea blends at their farm, and they host pop-ups with local restaurants featuring Nigerian foods. They also grow the seeds of Nigerian vegetables as well as heirlooms from Mississippi and Alabama for the Truelove Seeds catalog.  SEED STORIES TOLD IN THIS EPISODE: Honey Bean Purple Hull Pea Hibiscus White Velvet Okra Ginger Efo Aleho (Coming soon. Similar to Callaloo) Egusi Ewedu (Coming soon. Similar to Palestinian Molokhia) Ugu (Fluted Pumpkin) Locust Beans, fermented, aka Iru Stevia   MORE INFO FROM THIS EPISODE: Help Justevia buy a Farm! Justevia's Linktree Mr. Brown's Farm, Watervally, MS Chicory Market, Oxford, MS The Potlikker Papers, John T. Edge Southern Foodways Alliance podcast: Gravy Ewedu Broom on YouTube Seeds and Their People, EP 5: RAU ĐAY, LALO, SALUYOT, EWEDU, MOLOKHIA Molokhia Survey, by Antonio Tahhan  Antonio Tahhan's Linktree Braiding Seeds Fellowship   ABOUT: Seeds And Their People is a radio show where we feature seed stories told by the people who truly love them. Hosted by Owen Taylor of Truelove Seeds and Chris Bolden-Newsome of Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden. trueloveseeds.com/blogs/satpradio   SUPPORT OUR PATREON! Become a monthly Patreon supporter! This will better allow us to take the time to record, edit, and share seed stories like these.   FIND OWEN HERE: Truelove Seeds Facebook  |  Tumblr  |  Instagram  |  Twitter   FIND CHRIS HERE: Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden   THANKS TO: Halima Salazar Dria Price Maebh Aguilar Zainab Muhammad