Live Zoom Event

Wednesday, March 17 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM

By the time explorers reached the new world Native Americans had established a complex of agricultural traditions. In the northeast, they originated many important varieties of corns, beans, and squash and grew sunflowers, tobacco, and other plants.

Learn about the plants that compose these gardens and what is required to create an authentic or modified traditional garden.

Lawrence Davis-Hollander is founder and former Director of the Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, author of Tomato: A Fresh-from-the-vine Cookbook,  former garden writer for Heirloom Gardener, Grit, and Yankee Magazines.  He is a landscape gardener and garden designer working for clients in Litchfield and Berkshire Counties. He studied ethnobotany at Harvard University with Richard Evans Schultes one of the world’s foremost ethnobotanists. He was Director of Horticulture at the Berkshire Botanic Garden, has farmed organically and has been gardening since he was 12 years old. In his spare time, he gardens!