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I arrived here in the Ozarks last hebdomad , to get ready for the yearly Herb Harvest Fall Festival , which start this Thursday , October 3 , and goes through Saturday the 5th . Every twelvemonth , we gather to fete the harvest home season as well as different countries during the festival and this twelvemonth the nation of coastal Africa will be feature . Therefore , the gardener at The Heritage Herb Garden planted indigienous African crop and also crops that were brought to Africa and are now grown there in large quantities for consumption as well as exportation . So here at the OFC there are okra , peanuts , and sweet white potato growing on the root cellar hill . Peanuts are not really a nut which grows on a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , rather a legume , which grows in the soil . They have an odd grow habit in that they flower aboveground and raise underground . After the bright sensationalistic - orangeness flowers blossom , they shrivel and commit out a tholepin which slew and produce downwards . The peg click the earth and develop peanut in a pod . They want 120 to 140 days arise season . Another crop acquire both in the U.S. and Africa is sorghum . It is being harvested topically and there is even a genus Sorghum pressing going on correctly down the route in Big Flat , Arkansas , all this week .
On Thursday Nox , there will be a grand herbal supper , Nigerian - style , prepared by Dr. Charles Ogbeide , who is a professor in Fayetteville . The supper will be introduce by an outside reception in the gardens , where Herb Society members will assist appetiser and there will a large rotary of drummers gathered for entertainment . There are programs all twenty-four hour period on Friday and Saturday , with delicious lunch each day at the Skillet Restaurant featuring the foods of Africa and our Southern United States . Seewww.ozarkfolkcenter.comunder Herbal Events to retrospect all of the great verbalizer and the agenda . Friday ’s lunch is a Good Ole ’ Southern Meal serving Oven - Baked Fish with Lemon Herbs ; southerly - fashion Greens ; Pinto Beans ; menage - Fried Potatoes ; Hot - Water Cornbread ; Herbed Biscuits and Sweet Potato Pone for dessert .
I will be presenting a curriculum onThe African Influence of the Southern U.S.and prove a Peanut and Sweet Potato Soup with Coconut Milk ; Spicy Okra Stew with Cheesy Whole - grain Grits ; plantain fried in Coconut Oil ; and Benne Seed Wafers assist with watermelon wedges , which will be the menu for luncheon on Saturday .
John Ghana , who ownsTreaures of Africa , will be bringing African mathematical product from his shop and setting up a collapsible shelter where he will sell spiciness and herbs , shea butter , black scoop , clothing , baskets , drums and more . He will be presentingThe Medicinal Herbs and Plant Oils of Ghana . There will be herbaceous plant plants grown here at the OFC for sale , as well as dried herb and the HSA will be sell herbal goodies . follow experience fall in the Ozarks !
I will post the recipe for the Spicy Stewed Okra tomorrow … so abide tuned … and Happy October !
Click here forSpicy Stewed Okra – a simple yet very tasty dish .
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Peanuts are growing on the root cellar hill in front of the Shannon Cabin at the Ozark Folk Center. Click on other pix to enlarge and read captions.Photo/Illustration: Susan Belsinger
