Champion collard — a sturdy, cold-hardy, slow-to-bolt collard that holds in the garden through hard winter. A dependable Southern home-garden and market green.
Champion is a workhorse of Southern gardens because it survives the winter and resists bolting, giving Black families fresh greens for New Year's and through the lean cold season.
Champion is full-strength collard medicine: about 357mg calcium per cooked cup with vitamin K1 to route it into bone and out of arteries, dietary nitrate for nitric-oxide blood pressure control, and glucosinolates converted to sulforaphane and DIM for cancer protection and estrogen metabolism. Its exceptional cold-hardiness means winter access to fresh greens precisely when fresh produce is scarce and respiratory illness peaks, sustaining vitamin C and folate intake through the cold months.
Strip thick stems, ribbon the leaves, and braise with aromatics and seasoning meat for 45-75 minutes. Frost-touched winter leaves are sweeter and need slightly less cooking.
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