Living History in the Garden: Lydia Maria Child and Sugar Beets

140 Meadow Street,Northampton MA 01062

15 October, 2022

Description

Join Grow Food Northampton and David Ruggles Center for a hands-on outdoor workshop to learn about the abolitionist history of sugar beets in Florence in the 1800's and our Living History garden where we are growing sugar beets, broomcorn and flax. Tom Goldscheider will present on Lydia Maria Child, David Child and the abolitionists of the 1800s who lived and farmed on this land in Florence and used agriculture as a means of resisting injustice in their time. We will do a demonstration of processing sugar beets into sugar, and explain the history. This event is FREE in honor of celebrating our 10 year anniversary of the community garden.