Women in Horticulture

This blog about gardener, civil rights activist, and poet Anne Spencer invites you to dig deeper into her life and find out more about...

Jasmine Thompson grew up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. She spent two years working in Northern California with two...

Women in Horticulture’s Kate Galer sat down with Rev. Carolyn Cavaness on a cold January evening to find out more about her and the...

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977) was born into a sharecropping family in Mississippi and become a leader in civil rights. She established a...

Summer Badawi is a Minneapolis-based plantswoman, designer and educator with a particular passion for farming, food, and flowers. She has...

Although she was born into slavery in Georgia in 1829, Carrie Steele was one of the first black landowners in Atlanta and left behind a...