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Abstract
This project aims to illuminate the importance of native southern Appalachian
plants to traditional and contemporary medicine through the research-informed design
and implementation of a native medicinal plant teaching garden at the Foxfire Museum
and Heritage Center in Mountain City, Georgia. The Foxfire Museum is a folklife
cultural center that celebrates, documents, and sustains Appalachian heritage, including
the longstanding tradition of using native plants as medicine. This research asks: What
plants should be included in a garden design at the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center
in order to best represent the culturally, historically, and currently significant native
medicinal plants of southern Appalachia? This research establishes criteria for which
plants should be included and classifies native medicinal plants from various regional
cultural traditions, culminating in a plant list and garden design appropriate for the site
context at the Foxfire Museum.
plants to traditional and contemporary medicine through the research-informed design
and implementation of a native medicinal plant teaching garden at the Foxfire Museum
and Heritage Center in Mountain City, Georgia. The Foxfire Museum is a folklife
cultural center that celebrates, documents, and sustains Appalachian heritage, including
the longstanding tradition of using native plants as medicine. This research asks: What
plants should be included in a garden design at the Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center
in order to best represent the culturally, historically, and currently significant native
medicinal plants of southern Appalachia? This research establishes criteria for which
plants should be included and classifies native medicinal plants from various regional
cultural traditions, culminating in a plant list and garden design appropriate for the site
context at the Foxfire Museum.