Help keep the John Bell House’s vegetable gardens healthy and join First State Heritage Park for a John Bell House Garden Day! As a Garden Day volunteer, you will help the park maintain its three vegetable and herb gardens while engaging in historical interpretation.
On each First State Heritage Park Garden Day, volunteers can:
Discover the plants in a colonial period garden and their uses
Learn the basics of colonial period gardening
W**d, water, and assist with plant maintenance and harvesting as needed
Give back to your community while enjoying Delaware’s first “urban park without boundaries”
First State Heritage Park has three gardens consisting of the colonial garden, the enslaved person’s garden, and the Indigenous garden. The colonial bed features herbs, lettuce, radishes and more which could all be found in a modest colonial family’s kitchen garden. The enslaved person’s garden displays the methods of gardening enslaved people used to grow crops, as well as the foods that helped them maintain connections to their African heritage, such as peppers and collard greens. The Eastern Woodlands and Indigenous garden exhibits the Three-Sisters method of planting with corn, beans, and squash.
Interested? Sign up through our volunteer link!:
https://destateparks.galaxydigital.com/need/detail/?need_id=969586
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