Whether you boil them in other sauces, make a broth, fry them lightly or eat them raw in a salad, you can rest assured that collard greens’ place on the dining table will be preserved for posterity.

Ira Wallace ambles around the butcher block countertop in the kitchen she shares with a community of farmers in central Virginia. She has separated a single leaf from the large baskets of unusual, ...

Acorn Community is is a 72-acre certified organic farm. Founding member Ira Wallace says it's a place where all the members live equally among each other, benefitting from their seed company called ...

Collard greens are mandatory on any soul food menu and are often the star of a Black family dinner table. The history of these glorious greens can be traced to enslaved African Americans and poor ...

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These aren't commercially produced collard greens typically sold in supermarkets or restaurants. Many of the heirloom varieties Wallace and her friends grow are rare, some once teetering on extinction ...