Hello and welcome to Old Ways Gardening and Prepping. 🍀 Would like to welcome you out to the shed of many names. It is a cold and overcast day and a perfect time to dehydrate some cushaw squash.

Love to dehydrate cushaw squash and it is such a versatile winter squash. With it's wonderful taste it is great to add to instant rice pudding, instant oatmeal, added to soups and stews as well as many other recipes.

Cushaw squash look like gourds, but they’re squash. The Native Americans brought cushaw from Mesoamerica in 3000-7000 BC. It migrated from Southern Mexico up to Arizona to the southern US, Appalachian area.

Cushaws are packed with carotene, vitamins A, B6, & C, folate, magnesium, riboflavin, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, iron. Cushaw is anti-inflammatory, boosts immunity, delays aging, improves vision, improves lung health, lowers blood pressure. Can help reduce birth defects of babies. Seeds are rich in oil and protein. Attractive to bees, butterflies and birds. The flesh is used in Yucatan folk medicine to treat burns, sores and eczema. Nursing women eat the seeds to help them lactate. Also used for pain relief. Just to name a few wonderful abilities of this plant and squash.

Hope this video encourages you to grow cushaw squash as well as dehydrating it. If you have any questions please feel free to leave them in the comment section below and I will answer them as soon as possible. Everyone take care and have a blessed day.

Blessings,
Teresa

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Teresa Horn
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