ISSUE 13, GREENS, Part 2: Buncombe Cabbage
The First Southern Heading Cabbage that grew from Seed
The Buncombe Cabbage (a lost brassica landrace from western North Carolina)
The most important strain of cabbage developed in the Carolinas was a short-stemmed adaptation of the Drumhead cabbage, bred to be a winter variety and grown for seed at altitude in the Appalachians. Its first selector was John A. Zachary who settled the Cashiers Valley in the…