Rooted Wisdom

<p>Off a wooded road in Germantown, Maryland sits Button Farm Living History Center. A project of The Menare Foundation, the 40 acre farm tucked inside of Seneca Creek State Park depicts 1850s plantation life and...

<p>Over the course of six weeks during the summer of 2025, the Rooted Wisdom team worked with a group of Montgomery County Public School students in the Summer RISE initiative. After listening to interviews about the...

<p>When Harper descendant, Faith Harper, steps through the threshold of the cabin that bears her family name—a structure that holds an important place in history—she sees “a home full of love.” Tony and Faith discuss...

<p>In good practice historians rely on multiple sources of information to piece together the history of a building or place. Rebeccah Ballo, historian and preservationist, describes this standard as a three-legged bar...

<p>A one and a half story log cabin sits tucked in the woods at Brookside Nature Center in Wheaton, MD. Prior to 1976, this cabin was a two-story house built in the 1870s in the post-emancipation free Black community of...

<p>Tony sits down with Douglas Mitchell, Harriet Tubman descendant, to learn more after their visit at Ben’s 1o.</p><p>Hear more from Douglas Mitchell in Epsiode 5—Ben's 10: Interrupted Connection.</p><p>Learn more...

<p>On a biting cold mid-January day it’s a homecoming with no home. Harriet Tubman descendent, Douglas Mitchell, retraces Harriet’s footsteps along the wetland path of Dorchester County, Md. that his...

<p>800 holes dug and a coin from 1808 serves as a beacon to keep digging for Ben’s 10, the homeplace of Harriet Tubman’s father, Ben Ross. Tony sits down with archeologist Julie Schablitsky, to examine unearthed...

<p>Tony and David Greaves, a biologist, nature photographer, and founder of Nature Under Your Nose, look and listen to the birds of the forest. David discusses his interest in nature from an early age and shares...

<p>Tony is joined by Atiya Wells, founder and executive director of Backyard Basecamp in Baltimore, whose mission is to reconnect Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to land and nature. Atiya herself is a naturalist...

<p>Tony and Baltimore-based filmmaker Mecca Lewis head into the woods to discuss freedom seekers that used their knowledge of the landscape to aid in their liberation. Before descending into the forest, they talk about...