Gardening While Black Newsletter - July - September 2024
Let our Ancestors and Mother Nature be your guide July - September 2024 Upcoming Events July - September 2024 - click here Did you know?...
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...
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Okra, related to cotton, hibiscus and poppy mallow, popular super food across the globe
Events out of your garden: July - September, 2024
Events our of your garden July-September 2024
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. ...
Carolina Gold - The story of the hidden wealth of early America
Thanks to the work of Glenn Roberts, proprietor of Anson Mills and a president of the Carolina Gold Foundation, and many others with we...
Tulsa Juneteenth Festival - Tulsa - June 13-15, 2024
Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 to take control of the...
Odunde Festival - Philadelphia - June 9, 2024
The Odunde Festival, held annually in Philadelphia, was created in 1975 by Lois Fernandez. The festival attracts up to 500,000 people...
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...
Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
Black Rice tells the story of the true provenance of rice in the Americas. It establishes, through agricultural and historical evidence,...
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...
