Indigenous New Hampshire Collaborative Collective recently published an article written by AIM Interim Executive Director Jennifer Carr about the museum’s interpretive garden exhibit.
The outdoor gardens represent a timeline that explores changes in land use as a result of colonization. The garden exhibit is split into three sections: native plantings that would have been used by Indigenous people for food, medicine, and ceremonial purposes, an 18th-century kitchen garden common among Euro-American colonizers, and a contemporary pollinator garden.
AIM plans to add more plantings in the spring of 2025 and will use the gardens for educational programming, offering students the opportunity to interact with, taste, and smell history.
Click here to read Carr’s article on the Indigenous New Hampshire Collaborative Collection website.
