The event was part of a series of events celebrating the 25th anniversary of Princeton’s Program for Community-Engaged Scholarship(ProCES). The Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project is a collaboration of Princeton University, Spelman College, and the Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance to collect oral histories of people who have worked to preserve Black and Indigenous seed and foodways through the Southeastern United States and Appalachia. Garth collaborates with Tessa Desmond, a research specialist in the School of Public and International Affairs and Kimberly Jackson, Professor of biochemistry, and Director of the Food Studies program at Spelman College.