A local Pasco County broccoli variety has made it on a listing in the Seed Savers Exchange 2012 Yearbook. The Calabrese G+G broccoli seed stock, maintained by USF instructor Dell de Chant, is now nationally listed in the yearbook.The "Calabrese G+G" broccoli seed stock is nurtured and maintained by Dell de Chant, a New Port Richey organic farmer and religious studies instructor at the University of South FloridaOrganic Farmer and Professor of Religious Studies
Organic farmer Dell De Chant is also an instructor and Associate Chair of Department of Religious Studies. " ......I have found particular benefit in studying the manifestation of religion in contemporary American culture(s) and most specifically in the context of the subject areas of New Religious Movements and Religion in Popular Culture. My current interests are related to the sacred function of dynamic postmodern social institutions (e.g. sports, consumerism, politics) and the history of the New Thought movement. "
