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Next Upcoming Date:
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Help keep the John Bell House’s vegetable gardens healthy and join First State Heritage Park for a John Bell House Garden Day! As a Garden Day volunteer, you will help the park maintain its three vegetable and herb gardens while engaging in historical interpretation.
On each First State Heritage Park Garden Day, volunteers can:
Discover the plants in a colonial period garden and their uses

Learn the basics of colonial period gardening

Weed, water, and assist with plant maintenance and harvesting as needed

Give back to your community while enjoying Delaware’s first “urban park without boundaries”
First State Heritage Park has three gardens consisting of the colonial garden, the enslaved person’s garden, and the Indigenous garden. The colonial bed features herbs, lettuce, radishes and more which could all be found in a modest colonial family’s kitchen garden. The enslaved person’s garden displays the methods of gardening enslaved people used to grow crops, as well as the foods that helped them maintain connections to their African heritage, such as peppers and collard greens. The Eastern Woodlands and Indigenous garden exhibits the Three-Sisters method of planting with corn, beans, and squash.
Interested? Sign up through the volunteer link!: https://destateparks.galaxydigital.com/need/detail/…

Event Details & Directions

John Bell House on the Green

John Bell House Interpretive Center, The Green, Dover, DE, USA

Time:  10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

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Address: John Bell House Interpretive Center, The Green, Dover, DE, USA
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Dates

Upcoming Dates For This Event:

Saturday, May 17
Volunteer Garden Day
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Saturday, June 21
Volunteer Garden Day
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Saturday, July 19
Volunteer Garden Day
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Saturday, August 16
Volunteer Garden Day
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Saturday, September 20
Volunteer Garden Day
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM

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