Monthly Archives: October 2012

French medieval garden Bios Richeux via http://www.designsponge.com/2010/05/past-present-kitchen-garden-history.html I have been intently reading Susan Campbell’s book Charleston Kedding, A History of Kitchen Gardening which chronicles the changes in one English estate’s kitchen gardening practice from the 1630’s into the 1990’s.  Campbell extensively … Continue reading →

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Alfred-W-Crosby-on-the-Columbian-Exchange.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Potato-Changed-the-World.html?onsite_source=relatedarticles&onsite _medium=internallink&onsite_campaign=SmithMag&onsite_content=How

It is hard to imagine life without corn, especially now that it is used not only as a food source (tortilla chips and succulent corn on the cob throughout summer months etc.) but also in ethanol, and disposable silverware etc. … Continue reading →

The plan is to research European gardens before and after Christopher Columbus traveled to the New World.  Hopefully through this research we will discover a clear shift in cottage gardening practices, and types of species present, induced by globalization.  Should be … Continue reading →