Two Women and a Wagon Urban Farm LLC

06/06/2026

🌱 GARDENING 201 STARTS TOMORROW! 🌱

Your garden is planted. Now what?

Join us for Gardening 201: Summer Garden Maintenance & Growth, a 6-week interactive gardening series designed to help you maintain a healthy, productive garden throughout the growing season.

Topics include:

🌿 Side dressing & fertilizing

💧 Watering & irrigation management

🐛 Pest & disease identification and treatment

✂️ Pruning & trellising

🌱 Succession planting

🌾 Seed saving

🍂 Fall garden planning

Classes are taught live from active gardens using real-world examples, demonstrations, troubleshooting, and student questions.

📅 Saturdays, June 6 – July 11
⏰ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Eastern
💻 Live via Google Meet

✅ Plenty of seats still available

✅ Several FREE Community Tickets still available

Whether you're growing in containers, raised beds, grow bags, community gardens, or your backyard, this course will help you get more from your garden this season.

Register today and join us tomorrow!



Check out "Gardening 201: Summer Garden Maintenance & Growth (6-week series)" on Eventbrite!

Date: Sat, Jun 6, 1:00 PM

Joine Two Women and a Wagon for a hands-on summer gardening series covering fertilizing, watering, pest control, pruning, and seed saving.

03/21/2026

Week 3 of Gardening 101 starts in 20 minutes.

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03/09/2026

This is why we garden. What motivates you to garden?

03/09/2026

Why do you garden? This is my why. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP84uU1YU/

03/07/2026

If you're not registered because the class was full we just added 15 spots! Today at 1pm.

05/15/2025

HIRING NOW – East ATL!
Love plants? Like working outdoors? We’re paying $15+/hr with same-day pay to help build beautiful edible gardens. No experience needed—just good energy and hustle!

Women strongly encouraged to apply.
DM to start ASAP & share this with someone who needs work!

04/10/2025

Last year we installed a French drain and rain garden for a client who'd been having severe flooding in her home and had tried three previous solutions. She'd already had a subpar concrete job done to divert the water that had failed. We would have done it in addition to what we proposed but didn't want to undo work she'd just paid thousands for.

She called me yesterday to tell me that after the severe rains and tornadoes that ravaged her neighborhood last week that for the first time in over a decade she had no water inside her home. This was a huge relief because prior to us coming she'd been out of her home for almost a year after she lost her kitchen and dining room to the water damage.

She just referred me to three other clients in her neighborhood and it looks like my May calendar is already getting full. If you would like to learn more about drainage options inbox me.

04/08/2025

My class on Herbalism and Home Apothecary through Dekalb County starts this month. It will be followed by a course on Vegan Soapmaking. If you're interested in either DM me for the details!

02/12/2025

Medicinal Plant Knowledge: The Healing Wisdom of African Herbalists
Long before modern medicine, enslaved Africans and their descendants used their deep knowledge of medicinal plants to heal, protect, and sustain their communities. Rooted in West and Central African herbal traditions, these healing practices became essential in the Americas, influencing Black herbalism, Southern rootwork, and modern holistic medicine.

African Herbal Wisdom in the Americas
🌿 Plant-Based Healing – Enslaved Africans recognized and cultivated medicinal plants like sassafras, aloe, and wild yam, using them to treat wounds, fevers, and digestive issues.

🌱 Spiritual & Medicinal Remedies – Herbal knowledge wasn’t just science; it was spiritual. Plants like mullein and mugwort were used in healing rituals, protection practices, and ancestral veneration.

🧉 Knowledge of Roots & Tonics – Enslaved healers brewed root teas and tonics, using plants like ginger, burdock, and sarsaparilla to detox the body and strengthen immunity. These remedies inspired modern holistic health movements.

The Role of Black Herbalists & Root Workers
👩🏾‍⚕️ Community Healers – Black herbalists, midwives, and healers treated everything from childbirth complications to infections when enslaved people were denied access to medical care.

🧪 Influencing Modern Medicine – Plants used by Black herbalists became the foundation for pharmaceutical drugs, like wild yam for birth control pills and foxglove for heart medication.

⚖️ Preserving Knowledge Despite Oppression – Many healing traditions were forced underground due to racism, colonization, and medical exploitation, but Black herbalists and Hoodoo practitioners preserved these traditions in secret.

Healing the Future with the Past
Today, Black herbalists are reclaiming ancestral plant medicine, blending traditional practices with modern wellness movements. Herbal gardens, apothecaries, and educational programs are reviving the lost wisdom of African-descended healers.

🌱 The legacy of Black herbalists proves that healing isn’t just medicine—it’s knowledge, resilience, and connection to the land. 🌱

02/10/2025

Cattle Ranching: The Overlooked Legacy of Black Cowboys & African Expertise
Before the image of the American cowboy was romanticized in Hollywood, African cattle herding traditions shaped the ranching industry in the Americas. Enslaved Africans brought their expertise in cattle management, breeding, and roping, influencing the development of modern ranching from Texas to Brazil.

African Roots of Cattle Ranching
🐄 Herding Traditions from West Africa – Many enslaved Africans came from regions like Senegal, Mali, and Nigeria, where they practiced cattle husbandry for centuries. They knew how to raise, breed, and care for livestock, making them indispensable on plantations and ranches.

🐎 Skilled Horsemen & Ropers – African cattlemen mastered roping techniques, branding, and herding, laying the groundwork for what would later be recognized as the cowboy lifestyle.

🌱 Sustainable Grazing & Animal Care – They introduced rotational grazing to prevent overgrazing and kept cattle healthy through herbal medicine and nutritional feeding techniques.

Black Cowboys in the Americas
🏜️ The True Western Cowboys – One in four cowboys in the 1800s was Black. Skilled in cattle drives, horse training, and frontier survival, Black cowboys like Nat Love, Bose Ikard, and Bill Pickett became legends in the West.

Cattle Ranching in South America – In Brazil, Colombia, and the Caribbean, enslaved Africans worked on cattle ranches, shaping the vaquero (cowboy) traditions still honored today.

💰 Economic Power Through Ranching – Even after slavery, many Black ranchers built their own herds, establishing self-sufficient communities and cattle-based economies.

A Legacy That Lives On
Today, the contributions of Black cowboys and ranchers are finally being recognized. African-descended ranchers continue to pass down herding techniques, livestock care, and horsemanship, keeping their ancestors’ traditions alive.

🤠 Black cattle ranchers weren’t just laborers—they were innovators, entrepreneurs, and the true architects of the cowboy legacy.