

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
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)
Kalale Benin women with harvested yams.


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)
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)
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)
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
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 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
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
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
My earliest recollection black-eyed peas was our family mantra that you can't start the New Year without black-eyed peas, stewed tomatoes...
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...
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
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
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)
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924002827545&seq=3


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
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
https://www.farmingwhileblackfilm.com/