One Filipino woman's tending of siling labuyo, a beloved heritage pepper that advocates consider to be under threat from seed corporations, has led to the peppers being grown all across the city.
One Filipino woman's tending of siling labuyo, a beloved heritage pepper that advocates consider to be under threat from seed corporations, has led to the peppers being grown all across the city.
But as she spent more and more time away from the Philippines, she began to miss food from home. She worked as a farmers market coordinator and saw how hard it was to get Filipino ingredients, to get any kind of crops from different cultures and heritages.Nicky started growing the peppers — “badly,” she insists — up on her ninth-floor office windowsill in a candy jar and by the window in her bedroom.
After harvesting the peppers, Bitter again extracted their seeds — this time, several pounds of them — and gave them to TrueLove Seeds,Lailah Lindsey, a Black and Filipino farmer whose great-grandfather is from the Philippines, is planting it in Southwest Philly at the Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram’s Garden. Lindsey, who is 24, didn’t grow up with it but she says, “the ancestral memory in me is strong.” Bitter’s growing it too, at their new location in Kensington.
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