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Join us for a new series of public lectures on horticulture, plant science, and a variety of garden-related topics. Events include a reception where you can meet the speakers and mingle with other like-minded Brooklynites.
Registration is required for all lectures.
Seeds in Their Hair: African Plant and Food Knowledge in Early America
Michael W. Twitty
As people from diverse ethnic groups were brought from Africa to what would become the U.S., they brought a steady stream of knowledge, more precious than the mythical seeds said to be stored in their hair during the Middle Passage. African plants, African approaches to growing plants, and new ways of preparing food came to America in the minds of the enslaved and reshaped the American botanical, horticultural, and gustatory landscape. We will learn how enslaved West and Central Africans used their ancient knowledge to feed, heal, and pass on spiritual traditions, and examine parallel traditions in the Afro-Caribbean countries of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Brazil.
Saturday, June 14 | 1–4 p.m. (lecture and reception)
$15 member, $18 nonmember
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