12/10/2020 POETRY: SUSAN HALDANESEED CATALOGUE FOR THE END DAYS Orange Sun Peppers – Drought tolerant. Bitter Gourd – Heavily warted green skin; excellent adaptation to environmental stresses. Eden White Corn – Requires isolation from other corn. Good for home garden or barter. Serengeti Bush Bean – Resistant to Bacterial Brown Spot, Common Bean Mosaic Virus, Anthracnose, Benzene, Mercury. Bulls Blood Beet – Holds up well under long-term storage. Atomic Red Carrot – Grows in ash. First published in Grain Summer 2019. Susan Haldane is a writer and editor in Northeastern Ontario. She and her husband run a grass-based livestock farm, and their farmhouse front porch looks south to Algonquin Park. Her poetry has been published in a number of Canadian journals, and her chapbook Picking Stones is with Gaspereau Press.
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