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Historic Gardens


August 12, 2011

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August is a time of abundance in the vegetable garden. Many of these plants came to Wisconsin with our 19th century Yankee settlers and European immigrants. The plants our ancestors grew tell stories about their way of life and culinary traditions.

Commentator Marcia Carmichael introduces us to some of the heirloom plants in the recreated ethnic gardens at Old World Wisconsin.

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