Our 2025 EFN seed catalogue is now live! Featuring over 130 new varieties and over 640 total varieties, sourced from over 50 different growers from across the country. Huge thanks to all of our growers, volunteers, and to our stellar seed-house team in Minnesota! Each of you make this work possible.

'Potawatomi Rabbit Bean' African Pea

'Potawatomi Rabbit Bean' African Pea

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Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata

Origin: Gun Lake Band, Potawatomi People (Hopkins, Michigan)

Improvement status: Cultivar

Seeds per packet: ~35

Germination tested 12/2024: 99%

Life cycle: Annual

Potawatomi Rabbit Bean' is a large brown-and-blue-mottled African Pea from the Gun Lake Band of the Potawatomi people in Hopkins, Michigan. African Peas are also known as southern peas, black-eyed peas, and cowpeas — but they are not just food for cows! This Indigenous variety is an excellent African Pea for nothern farms and gardens. It's considered a pole-type, so will do best with a substantial trellis. The seeds are the largest African pea EFN co-founder Dusty has ever seen!

We are excited to have this variety in the catalogue from grower Celeste Tannenbaum, who says this has been a very consistent, reliable, and productive variety when grown for her in northeast Ohio.

GROWING TIPS: Direct sow seeds in warm soil some weeks after the last threat of frost has passed. This variety should be provided with a trellis, or at least plenty of room for plants to sprawl around (trellis will greatly increase productivity).