Stowe Garden
History Grows Here
Bringing the historic landscape around Cincinnati’s Harriet Beecher Stowe House back to life.
Through careful historical research, ecological restoration, and community involvement, our goal is to honor Harriet Beecher Stowe’s legacy and create a peaceful, inspiring space for learning, reflection, and connection.
Our vision is to create a garden that enhances the museum’s historical message by grounding it in the surrounding natural environment.
We want to reintroduce native plants, medicinal herbs, and food crops that once thrived in the area’s historical landscapes.
Our values
We believe that as stewards of history, our responsibility goes beyond preserving creative works, objects, and buildings; we must also protect and restore the landscapes in which they were created. In other words, our focus must expand from artifacts to ecosystems. Practically, this means embedding environmentally sensitive, historic gardens within naturalistic landscapes that feature native plant communities and support local wildlife.
Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers to cover the ground.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Flowers and Fruit from the Writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abbie H. Fairchild, ed. Houghton Mifflin, 1888, 22.
Ready to take action?
Get involved
Interested in joining a group to help organize volunteer work, outreach, and fundraising? We would love to work with you!
Donate
You can also support us directly with a donation. Please get in touch if you’d like to talk about supporting a particular element of the project.