A day of action & remembrance honoring Eve Vorhees, an ancestor buried at the Flatbush African Burial Ground

The weather is warming and it’s time to get outside together. This Saturday, in honor of Mother’s Day, we’re going to debut our new walk “Eve’s Garden”.

Through the life of Eve Voorhees, who was buried at the Flatbush African Burial Ground, we’ll explore the ways that our enslaved ancestors in Brooklyn conspired with nature to resist the conditions of enslavement. Eve lived to 110 years old and was an avid gardener, and she’s not the only long-lived ancestor who supplemented their rations with their own gardens.

We’ll learn about the plant knowledge that enslaved Africans brought with them from places of capture, as well as their adaptation of indigenous plant knowledge. Through it all, we’re reclaiming Brooklyn, and sites of memory like the Flatbush African Burial Ground, as historically Black Diasporic spaces and sites of resistance.

Come prepared to walk and connect with each other. To close, we’ll begin to design signage that will replace the ones destroyed by vandalism last year.

Hope to see you there!!!