I use all my scraps from making bacon, excess skin and bones from shoulders for greens and beans--try it if you have some excess gristle/skin/smoked bones
Where are all the holes in them from the damn melon bugs? I have to harvest greens every week so those bastards don't eat up my hard work. Enlighten me, stick!
The town of Ayden North Carolina is home of Skylight Inn and right next door is the biggest collard place you have ever visited. Family run for generations. They have books on cooking collards the Southern way. Check it out.