Children: Seasonal Kitchen Garden

History Comes Alive! The Historic Odessa Foundation’s school program offers educators a well-documented, interactive and hands-on sampler of 18th century life in colonial Delaware. Although designed specifically with Delaware teachers in mind, our program is broad enough to accommodate school from other states, homeschoolers, youth organizations and summer camps.

Learn about 18th century life

Visit the Collins-Sharp kitchen garden and see how our ancestors used local plants and crops in their diet, their medicines and even their cleaning buckets.  Take home an heirloom seed you plant, tend it and watch it grow just as they did in the 18th century.  Go on an “herb search” and use your sense of touch, smell and sight to identify common herbs and discover their colonial uses.

Contact our Education Office Wednesday and Friday at 302-378-5562 or e-mail our Education Curator, Johnnye Baker, at johnnye.baker@historicodessa.org.