Ho-Chunk Native Garden Planting

Description

Please join the Friends of Aztalan State Park in welcoming Executive Director of the Ho-Chunk Nation’s Agriculture Department Hinu Smith as we learn to plant a traditional Ho-Chunk garden at Aztalan.

Hinu Smith will explain the cultural significance of Ho-Chunk seeds and other heritage seeds and the history of Ho-Chunk agricultural practices past and present.

We invite the public to help us plant Ho-Chunk Speckled Corn, Hubbard Squash, a bean variety (TBD), and a Ruramuri Sunflower (Tarahumara White Sunflower). The Raramuri variety is from Northern Mexico and was gifted to the Ho-Chunk.

Meet in the middle parking lot near the visitor center trailer and shelter.