Curated by Jessica B. Harris, Ph.D., America’s leading scholar of the foods of the African Diaspora, African American Garden: Remembrance & Resilience is a sequence of plantings at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) that explores African American food and gardening histories and essential contributions to American foodways. The African American Garden is a major component of Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love, NYBG’s institution-wide, multi-faceted exhibition that celebrates the cultural, horticultural, environmental, and historical significance of what we eat and examines the art and science of foodways and food traditions, many dating back thousands of years

Photos by Marlon Co Photography