
About the project
The Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project is a collaboration of Princeton University, Spelman College, and the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance to collect oral histories of people who have worked to preserve Black and Indigenous seed and foodways through the Southeastern United States and Appalachia. Working across six sites over two years, students and faculty will work with communities to interview and archive the stories of farmers, gardeners, chefs, community organizers, local historians and others who have been actively sustaining rich farming, culinary, and medicinal traditions.
People

Bonnetta Adeeb
Co-Founder
Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance

Whitney Barr
Program and Garden Manager
Food Studies Program
Spelman College

Tessa Lowinske Desmond
Associate Research Scholar & Lecturer
Effron Center for the Study of America, Princeton University

Hanna Garth
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Princeton University

Fatimah Hasan
Co-Founder
Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance

Kimberly Jackson
Professor of Biochemistry
Chair of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Director of the Food Studies Program
Spelman College

Christian Keeve
Doctoral Candidate in Geography
University of Kentucky
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Supported by
The Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research and Innovation, an initiative of the Office of the Dean for Research at Princeton University