The "Ark of Taste" idea was conceived at a Slow Food gathering in Torino, Italy in 1996. It is a project to identify foods with culinary and cultural significance that are facing extinction with the industrialization of our food supply. Our sampler consists of 8 varieties that have been listed by RAFT (Restoring American Food Traditions) as American Ark foods. Sampler consists of one packet each of Hutterite Bush Dry Bean, Lina Cisco's Bird Egg Bush Dry Bean, Grandpa Admires Lettuce, Tennis Ball Lettuce, Speckled Butterhead Lettuce, Eel river (Crane) Muskmelon*, Red Fig Cherry Tomato, and Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry.