Blog post by ACG Intern Lydia Pulsinelli On a beautiful Saturday in October, I laid out my table for the Harvest Festival with plants freshly harvested from the Kitchen Garden a few feet away. Throughout the day, I cut into squashes and melons to unveil the seeds within to visitors. People rubbed and smelled the …
Post by Fernando de la Torre, ACG horticulture intern for summer 2025. As a PhD student in plant breeding and plant genetics at UW-Madison, my specialization has been in breeding intersectional hybrids of Vaccinium – which is the family of plants that contains blueberry, cranberry, and lingonberry, among others. For summer 2025, I wanted to …
Post by Ryan Dostal, based on research by students in UW-Madison Religious Studies course “Food, Meaning, Religion”. What is an Afro-Diasporic Garden? As people of African descent found themselves in new places, they resisted the hardship of slavery, often by keeping gardens. Despite numerous challenges placed on African gardeners, they built on their already substantial …
Guest post by Lina Martin and Lauren Cornelius from the Native American Center for Health Professionals who collaborated on our Three Sisters Garden this year (2022). The NACHP 3 Sisters garden was started in 2014 for our students to get an introduction to traditional foodways of Iroquois tribe. Seeds were donated by local tribes who …