For the past 12,000 years more than 550 ancestral generations of Vermont’s Abenaki people foraged, then cultivated scores of delicious, nutritious wild edible plants for their daily meals. Then around 1,000 AD they received the gifts of corn, beans and squash through trade with their distant southern cousins and began intensive gardening and farming on floodplains, intervale lands along the Connecticut, Winooski and other rivers throughout the state. Join naturalist, Mike Ather for Gardening and Gathering Like the First People of Vermont, to learn how you, too, can gather and cultivate many of these same plants in our own garden today to augment and even improve your diet.
This program will be presented on Zoom.
Members FREE Non-members $10
A seventh generation Vermonter, 1976 graduate of the UVM Environmental Studies Program, former employee of Gardener’s Supply Company, Mike owns BackyardWilderness.com, a venture dedicated to restoring the natural world in your own backyard. A Master Gardener, Master Composter, and instructor for the UVM Master Composter Program, Mike has written for Organic Gardening magazine, New Pioneer Magazine, The Baltimore Sun, and featured in Burlington Free Press, Rutland Herald, Barre Times Argus.
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