Colonial & Early American Gardens

Monday, May 25, 2020

From Garden to Table

Jean-Siméon Chardin (1699–1779) In the Kitchen preparing the Vegetables Detail

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17C Europeans landing from the Atlantic Ocean onto North America's East Coast coped with unfamiliar weather & geography by creating spaces to meet basic needs for shelter & food. As time passed, most still grew garden plants for food & medicinal drugs; but with the additional help of offspring & imported servants & slaves, growing plants in farm fields often became economic enterprises for local communities as well as for export across the Atlantic.

A garden is a planned space set aside for the practical cultivation of edible & medicinal plants, and/or for the artistic display, & enjoyment of decorative plants. In the 18-19C, many gentry transformed the gardens near their personal living spaces into art hoping to project a desired image of themselves to others - their wealth, power, refinement, & beliefs.

Searching for WHY human society changes & what those living before us declare in their own words and in their design & images of themselves & of the world around them. Posting on the worldwide internet makes history less intimidating, easily accessible, & freely available for everyone.

As a historian, I must rely on archaeologists, using a variety of scientific tools, to find & help explain earlier evidence beyond that obvious on the surface. Science is not truth. It is a process in the pursuit of truth.

Focusing mostly on the history & art of gardens & women, I put together several blogs, different in the particulars but similar in the essentials. They are listed in the blogroll below.

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