Gardeners' Gathering - 46th Annual

Kick off the gardening season with the annual Gardeners’ Gathering, now in it’s 46th year! The Gathering is free and open to all. This year’s virtual event will feature:

- Garden workshops and storytelling
- Special guest speakers from the Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective on indigenous food sovereignty
- The Annual Community Garden Awards

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Continuing a long tradition of partnership with the City of Boston, Mayor of Boston Michelle Wu will kick off the Gathering on Saturday with a keynote address and present the Community Garden Awards to the “Most Valuable Gardener,” “Rookie Garden of the Year,” and “Hall of Fame Garden.”

Kristen Wyman, Elizabeth Solomon, and Nia Holley will speak at 11am on Saturday March 26. They will share the work of the Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective, which is reclaiming the right to food and relationship to the earth for indigenous peoples. Members of the collective, which is led by indigenous womxn and two-spirits, initiate and help sustain existing community-led food and medicine projects across tribal communities in the Northeast. They are restoring polycultural food systems and local fisheries, assuring transmission of traditional medicine and foodways while reengaging spiritual foundations of their livelihoods. They embrace agroecology and anti-oppression/anti-violence frameworks as a pathway to food sovereignty and the rebuilding of indigenous agro-economies.

Along with the skill-building workshops, which are one of the main attractions of the Gardeners’ Gathering, this year’s event will feature storytelling focused on relationships with food and land. These include the history of Dorchester’s Nightingale Community Garden, a conversation with a Wampanoag grower on cultivating ancestral crops and seed keeping as a means of cultural preservation, and a presentation on Mesoamerican Approaches to Permaculture. Participants can also learn practical skills like Vegetable Garden Basics, Seed Starting, Soil Remediation and Composting.

Print by Annabel Rabiyah.

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