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Special Event
Event
Farming in the City: Food in the Backyard
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Fee:
Free. Included with valid park entry pass.Location:
The Green, located across from the Bookstore in historic Lower Town, Harpers Ferry.Repeating Event
Days:
Every day
Dates:
May 18, 2024 to May 19, 2024
Time:
11:00 AM
Duration:
5 hours
Type of Event
Talk
Description
Experience Victorian everyday life in antebellum Harpers Ferry when most citizens had chickens, a hog, and grew their own food in their backyard kitchen garden. Before the onset of the Industrial Revolution and the mass production of processed foods, ordinary citizens depended on small kitchen gardens for sustenance, right in the heart of the smoke filled industrial town. Visit the park’s historic garden and discover the connections between historic gardening and solutions for confronting climate change that today can be mitigated by Victorian organic gardening methods. Join Living History staff and volunteers to see heirloom seedlings and purchase historic heirloom seeds from the Bookshop to start your very own kitchen garden.