The Center for History and Culture
Seed Bank
Providing Access to Historical Seeds
Plant seeds have a history. At TCC, we built a gardening complex with a permaculture pathway, community garden plots, and an aquaponics system inside a greenhouse where we grow food and raise fish. The seeds we harvest from this gardening complex and saved and stored at the Center for History and Culture, where students can come take some to plant for themselves and learn about regenerative gardening practices, how to heal the soil, different types of gardening techniques, forms of composting, and the cultural history behind the people who have grown these places before us.
Our motto is "Grow food, not lawns," and we encourage students to become active gardeners in the spaces around them at the homes.
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Trail of Tears Beans
This is a variety of beans known as the Cherokee Trail of Tears because the Cherokee Indians took them with them during the deadly march out of their homeland they were forced to endure by the US government in 1838. We grow them on campus at our garden complex. You can learn more about this bean on this website if you are interested, and we would be more than happy to share some with you if you want to grow your own.
Let’s Grow Together
Interested in becoming a gardener? Get in touch so we can start working together.
