
@gracie88888 Hah! Same this end. Mine, Green Beauty snow pea and Sugar Magnolia snap pea, both bred within hollering distance from us by Dr. Alan Kapuler. Tell ya what. Did you know snap peas manifest completely out of thin air, ripe-for-the-picking, by the bucketload, between 2 and 4 a.m.?

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Green Beauty snow peas, hiding in foliage.

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Purple Magnolia Blossom snap peas, visible among a thicket of pea vines.

We lean heavily on local, holistic plant-breeders with global reps. Me, 6'4": Wild Garden Seeds quinoa to the left; Peace Seedlings amaranth behind; then, between the Adaptive Seeds Amaranth Alliance and WGS quinoa Breeder's Mix, Carole Deppe's Oregon Homestead winter squash.

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Nick's face lost in a towering quinoa forest, amaranths similarly 8' tall, in the background.

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Rows of amaranth and quinoa diversity separated by a seed increase on Oregon Homestead Sweetmeat winter squash (C. maxima). Forest in the background.