Plants & Gardens in Colonial & Early America

Saturday, October 24, 2020

From Garden to Table


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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. Mankind uses plants for food & medicine, dyes & textiles, fuels & building materials, and trade & profit.

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 useful 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.

Honored to have you here - Welcome!

Barbara Wells Sarudy

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      • From Garden to Table - Jefferson's (1743-1824) Ens...
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      • Garden to Table - Home-Made Clover Wine
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      • From Garden to Table
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      • History Blooms at Monticello - Couleur Cardinal Tulip
      • From Garden to Table
      • The Oval Flower Beds at Tho Jefferson's (1743-1824...
      • 1764 Plants in 18C Colonial American Gardens - Vir...
      • The Early American Development of The Blush Noisse...
      • From Garden to Table - Brewing Beer in Early America
      • From Garden to Table at Mount Vernon - Small Beer
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      • Garden to Table - Home-Made Barley Wine
      • From Garden to Table - Early Cookbooks on Google B...
      • Garden to Table - African Influence on Southern Cu...
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      • From Garden to Table
      • Tho Jefferson's (1743-1824) Monticello Fish Ponds:...
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