“The REAL Housewives of New Jersey” Early American Women in their Kitchen Gardens
Date: Saturday, August 3, 2024
Time: 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Location: This is a virtual event. The connection link will be provided after you register.,
Presented by Lesley Parness,
former Superintendent of Horticultural Education at
New Jersey’s Morris County Park Commission
Kitchen gardens in the 1700’s fed, healed, and clothed Early American families. The 18th century “huswife” skill set included “cookery, distillation, perfumery, the making of wool, hemp, flax, brewing, baking,” and, of course – gardening. Join us as we look at how growing plants both Native American and from their homelands, these women turned their soup pots into the melting pot that is America.
