Heirloom Garden Workshop

Alabama Extension Service horticulturalist Sallie Lee and herbalist Antonia Viteri will lead a hands-on exploration of this year’s flowers, veggies and herbs in Birmingham HIstorical Society’s Grandmother’s Garden at Sloss Furnaces. Our experts will walk us through the ABCs of historic garden practice and fill our morning with talks, walks, tastings, and sachet making. They will send us home with passed-along plants and inspire us to garden in old-fashioned ways.

Space is limited. To reserve a place at the workshop, send your check for $20 per person by Wednesday, September 7 to Birmingham Historical Society, One Sloss Quarters, Birmingham, AL 35222. 

About Grandmother’s Garden: Located adjacent Birmingham Historical Society’s 1905 house in Sloss Quarters, where industrial workers once lived and raised their food and medicine chest, the garden recreates a home garden of the early 20th century, the days before commercial fertilizers, hybrid seeds, and highly mechanized practices. Then and now, plots separated by gravel walks are laid out for a family’s vegetables, kitchen and medicinal herbs, friuts, and flowers.

Sallie Lee is a horticulturalist who serves as an Urban Regional Extension Agent for the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, working with homeowners and school and comunity groups, such as Grandmother’s Garden.

Antonia Viteri is an architect, landscape architect, and herbalist with certificates in Herbal Studies in California and from Alabama herbalist Phyllis Light of Arab.