Celebrating collards: from festivals to fiction -- Eating collards: the reasons we do or don't -- Cooking collards: kitchen stories and home recipes -- Growing collards: is broccoli really the same species? -- Selling collards: when leafy greens mean money -- Saving collard seed: the essential act in food heritage -- Imagining the early southern collard: origin and diffusion -- Mapping the southern collard: core and domain.