Illustration of different types of cucumbers, including slicing, pickling, and Armenian varieties, with notes on each, along with yellow summer squash and a pumpkin, promoting Vermont harvest.

Cucumbers

​Cucumbers are easy and delicious! Eat them raw as a snack or throw them on top of a salad, but you can also pickle, sautee, bake, or boil cucumbers. There are many varieties and most taste and look different- try them all! 

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Four whole cucumbers with three slices showing interior seeds and flesh

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Reading List:

» A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds by Jean Richards
» Cool as a Cucumber by Michael Morpurgo & Cassandra Harwood (Audio Book)
» Cucumber Sandwiches, by Marlene Marlowe 

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Justice and Liberation Story

Two women sit and talk in a garden filled with plants and flowers.

Photo Credit: Heirloom Gardens Project

Young boy with short hair in a striped pink and orange shirt holding a jar of chopped cucumbers in a kitchen.
Fresh green cucumbers in a blue basket.

Saving seeds is a creative at-home activity, and a way to instill the importance of passing knowledge onto the next generation. For our July HOTM product, we invite you to save cucumber seeds with your family and to learn about the cultural practices of seed saving in Black and Indigenous communities.

The Heirloom Gardens Project is collaboration between Princeton University, Spelman College’s Food Studies program, and Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance which aims to memorialize long-held expertise and culturally meaningful foods in Black and Indigenous communities across Appalachia & the southeastern United States.

The goal of the HGP is to see that this knowledge is used in the future to improve access to farming, gardening, food accessibility and land sovereignty for Black and Indigenous peoples.

With the urgency of the pandemic impacting elders, and African American history being banned from schools in certain parts of the country, community members' conversations have been made accessible through these public archives in order to preserve and protect it for future generations.

Read the full story here.

Harvest Photos

Two young girls in a classroom preparing cucumbers on a table with a pile of cucumbers in the foreground.
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Two young girls are engaged in a craft activity involving greenery and jars, with craft supplies and vegetables on the table. A third girl is in the background in a classroom setting.
A woman with blonde hair wearing earrings, a necklace, and a sleeveless top, stands at a kitchen counter filling glass jars with cucumber slices, surrounded by kitchen shelves and appliances.