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Grow with Marble Springs, Join our Garden Club!
Interested in gardening, history, or learning something new? Join the Marble Spring Garden Club to help us explore historic gardening practices to share with our visitors and community. The gardens will explore the foodways, cuisine, and wildlife that shaped Appalachian culture. You will learn how to maintain, develop, and interpret the gardens at Marble Springs. Mable Springs Garden Club is open to beginners and green thumbs alike, whether you want to try your hand at 18th-century farming or simply need a space to learn how to cultivate your own food. The museum will provide tools and materials, and all we need is YOU!
Read more details below to learn how to get started!
How it works
Our goal is to keep our gardens, trails, and grounds maintained throughout the planting season. Whether it's multiple times a week or a few times a year, we have no time commitments. The Garden Club will meet regularly for cleanup, planting, and harvest days and may be featured in educational programming throughout the year. Never gardened before? No problem! We'll teach you everything you need to know and provide all the materials you will need. All you need is your curiosity and willingness to learn.
Meet Ray
Ray Griffin is an avid gardener, public historian, and board member at Marble Springs, having managed the educational garden at the site for the past two years. Ray graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2024 with a Master's degree in Cultural Anthropology with a focus on ethnohistory and academic interests in folk art, foodways, and the function of public history sites in the production and maintenance of cultural identity. Ray's public education work at Marble Springs has primarily focused on labor dynamics, historic methods of food production and preservation, and the role of food crops in the lives of enslaved people at homesites like John Sevier's.
Interested? Want to know more?
Contact us with the button below for questions or if you would like us to add you to our Garden Club email list. We hope to hear from you!
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