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GARDEN CHRONICLES

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Dive into our Garden Chronicles, where we share insights, tips, and stories to inspire your gardening journey. From practical advice on plant care to reflections on the cultural significance of gardening in the African-American community, our blog offers a wealth of knowledge and inspiration. Join us as we celebrate the beauty of gardening while black and discover the richness of our shared heritage.

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Complete)

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Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Complete)

Our select African Diaspora plant inventory consists of more than 100 plants that are connected to the descendants of the Middle Passage.

Welcome to Gardening While Black

Welcome to Gardening While Black

Check out our website, Gardening While Black. We explore the gardening heritage that began in West Africa and was transported to the...

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Part 5)

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Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Part 5)

Kalale Benin women with harvested yams.

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Part 4)

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Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Part 4)

The fish pepper was a popular seasoning in the Mid-Atlantic where African-American chefs used immature white fruits to season seafood.

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Part 3)

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Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Part 3)

Okra, a worldwide garden staple, that is an important feature of many cuisines, especially the gumbos of West Africa and the Americas.

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Part 2)

SANKOFA: GO BACK AND GET IT

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Part 2)

One of the first steps to create your African Diaspora edible garden is to select the crops you like and have meaning to you. Bottle gourd.

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Overview and Part 1)

SANKOFA: GO BACK AND GET IT

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Overview and Part 1)

A plot of Amaranth, a nutritious source of grains and greens. Used in the Calaloo dish popular in the Caribbean.

Selecting your African Diaspora seeds and seedlings

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Selecting your African Diaspora seeds and seedlings

One of the first steps in creating your African Diaspora edible garden is to select the crops you like and that have meaning to you. ...

Dreaming Out Loud's 7th Annual Spring Festival

Dreaming Out Loud's 7th Annual Spring Festival

Dreaming Out Loud is hosting its 7th. Annual Spring Festival on April 27, featuring live music, entertainment, farming activities, pony ride

FISH PEPPER - An enduring story of lost and found gardening history

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FISH PEPPER - An enduring story of lost and found gardening history

This heirloom cultivar of capsicum annum originated in southern Mexico, but made its way to Caribbean and into North America,...

Five Pillars: Seeds, Earth, Water, Air and Light

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Five Pillars: Seeds, Earth, Water, Air and Light

Let our ancestors and Mother Nature be your guide The magic of edible gardening involves finding the elemental balance of Mother Nature -...

Black-Eyed Peas - At New Years and anytime

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Black-Eyed Peas - At New Years and anytime

My earliest recollection black-eyed peas was our family mantra that you can't start the New Year without black-eyed peas, stewed tomatoes...

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Goose Creek Tomato - A Family Heirloom

From Seed to Skillet begins with co-author Jimmy Williams telling us how gardening can be a generation to generation production, how his...

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Aunt Lou's Underground Railroad Tomato

I’m very fond of the idea that I can grow something in my garden that was passed down from an African traveling to freedom through the...

In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical legacy in the Atlantic World

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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical legacy in the Atlantic World

In the Shadow of Slavery is masterful scholarship that debunks the simple-minded notion that enslaved Africans came to America without...

We are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land and Legacy

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We are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land and Legacy

In We are Each Other’s Harvest, Natalie Baszile explores and celebrates Black farming in America. She has assembled a treasure trove of...

Handbook of the Negro Garden Club of Virginia (1944)

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Handbook of the Negro Garden Club of Virginia (1944)

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924002827545&seq=3

Homegrown, Netflix

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Homegrown, Netflix

https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYyTRuAWgbDKqUgEAAACu

From Seed to Skillet: A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Love

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From Seed to Skillet: A Guide to Growing, Tending, Harvesting and Cooking Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Share with People You Love

I met Jimmy Williams (and son Logan Williams) tending their wares at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market on a Sunday morning in Hollywood,...

Farming While Black, Documentary

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Farming While Black, Documentary

https://www.farmingwhileblackfilm.com/

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Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Complete)

Select African Diaspora Plant Inventory (Complete)

Our select African Diaspora plant inventory consists of more than 100 plants that are connected to the descendants of the Middle Passage.

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