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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0025-accs
  • Summary(0:45) Beginning to work in the garden twenty years ago -- (1:24) Planting trees, flowers, and produce -- (2:38) The hard work involved in getting the garden started -- (6:27) Cooking collard greens and kale -- (7:00) Founding members of the garden -- (7:33) Mrs. Forbes -- (8:22) Community participation -- (9:20) Community activities in the garden -- (11:25) Neighborhood growth -- (12:50) Working with difficult personalities -- (13:50) Rewards of watching plants grow for over 15 years -- (15:05) Advice for future gardeners -- (15:45) Tools for teaching and working in the garden -- (16:30) Relationship with other local garden -- (17:44) Invitation to the garden.
  • Date2016-09-02
  • Physical Description1 sound file (19 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorWade, Edna
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on September 2, 2016, by Samantha Feldman at Contented Hart Garden. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This interview stems from a shared partnership with Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Queens Land Trust under the name of Our Gardens, Our Stories.
  • SubjectCommunity gardens ; Community development ; Gardening ; Plants ; Vegetables ; Jazz
  • PlaceBushwick (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Edna Wade on 2016 September 02.