LECTURE | Corn, Beans, Squash, and You: How to Get into Horticulture on Your Own
Sunday, June 4th at 2:00 pm
Included with Museum Admission
Albany Institute of History and Art (125 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12210)
LECTURE | Corn, Beans, Squash, and You: How to Get into Horticulture on Your Own
Join us for a lecture with Drew Shuptar-Rayvis as he presents the lecture, “Corn, Beans, Squash, and You: How to Get into Horticulture on Your Own” and introduces the Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, and Squash), tobacco and the many other edible and medicinal plants native to eastern North America and instructs on how to incorporate them into a modern garden.
About the Lecture:
Meet the Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, and Squash), tobacco and the many other edible and medicinal plants native to eastern North America and discover how to incorporate them into a modern garden. Learn how to harvest, dry and store seeds/leaves, develop strains of plants that best suit your needs, where to buy or trade for seeds, how to tell if seeds are heirloom or GMO and what to expect in yields, nutrition and uses of the plants you grow. Dig into the history of these key plants and their importance to both Indigenous Americans and European settlers.
About the Lecturer:
Drew Shuptar-Rayvis (Pekatawas MakataweU “Black Corn”) holds a cum laude Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from Western Connecticut State University and a Certificate Degree in Archaeology from Norwalk Community College. A true American of the mid-Atlantic region, his family includes indigenous Pocomoke heritage, Pennsylvania Dutch, Welsh, Swiss, English, Scots-Irish, Boyko Ukrainian and Ashkanazi Jewish, he honors all of his ancestors as a practicing living historian and regularly participates in colonial era reenactments, interpretations and public educational events.
He has studied and become proficient in the reading of Wampum and works diligently in the research and preservation of the Eastern Woodland languages, particularly Renape and Mahican and is educated in the many European languages at use in the Colonial Period. He was the first garden manager of Western Connecticut State University’s Permaculture Garden, and practices Native horticulture. In July 2021, Drew was elected by his Paramount Chief Norris Howard Senior and Vice Chief Norris Howard Junior as Cultural Ambassador of the Pocomoke Indian Nation of Maryland.