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SoybeanPurple straw: Restoring a flavorful Colonial-era wheatPurple straw: Restoring a flavorful Colonial-era wheat
Purple Straw is the only heirloom wheat to have been cultivated continually in the South from the Colonial Period into the last quarter of the 20th century.It remained a crop wheat until the 1970s, when it was abandoned and replaced by more productive modern hybrids.
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