Amber Grossman is the founder of BlackGirlsGardening, an online community on Instagram designed to connect Black women gardeners and inspire others to start a garden and plant seeds back into the land ...
The podcast that resides at the intersection of Black Culture and horticulture in a world where all the garden fairies and most of the gnomes are white. Hosted by millennial black plant enthusiast and ...
Rooted in Plants aims is to teach children how people of African descent have contributed to our understanding and use of plants around the world. Sandra Bookman has the story. NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- ...
African American women employed as gardeners in the rose garden of the Botanical Gardens, Washington DC, 1943. (Photo by Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are ...
During 2022-2024, the New York Botanical Garden was home to the African American Garden, a three-year initiative curated by culinary historian and award-winning author Dr. Jessica B. Harris to ...
When Helen Ferguson Williams was a girl, she begged her mother, Mary Elizabeth Ferguson, to take her to the Norfolk Botanical Garden. She wanted to be in the crowd when the Azalea Queen — often the ...
During European colonization of the Americas, hundreds of thousands of African people were brought as slaves to the American colonies, where food historian Michael W. Twitty said they were able to ...