The Plum Bayou Garden

04/30/2026

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04/23/2026

11/19/2022

Hello! Its been a long time Facebook but as many of you know already there has been fantastic news about the name of the state park where this lovely garden grows (see below if you weren't aware!) so quickly dropping in to make sure the page for the garden is updated! When we built the garden in 2015, our choice of "The Plum Bayou Garden" was a very deliberate one meant to move away from the incredibly inaccurate name that site had been saddled with, and towards the name that Martha Rolingson developed for the Late Woodland culture who built the site - Plum Bayou - helping link those past peoples and their lives, with the landscape they lived in - and tended and gardened.

Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park has been renamed Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park to more accurately identify the local people who built the mounds more than 1,000 years ago, according to a news release from Arkansas State Parks.

06/26/2020

Hello PBG followers! Please see the post from me - Dr. Horton - below: definitely the hardest part of this decision involved the Plum Bayou Garden but I hope it’ll now be one of many heritage gardens I start - and it’s already one of many that I have assisted/advised on.

Even though I will no longer be at the station, the garden will remain, fulfilling its mission as a publicly accessible, living interpretative landscape! So go give it some love in person when you are able!

One thing that will change is that this FB page will go dormant. You will be able to see posts about the Plum Bayou Garden made by Katy Gregory and other ARAS archeologists Arkansas Archeological Survey - Toltec Mounds Research Station page. And if you want to continue to see content related to both ancient and modern ethnobotany and botany, including research and news related to , you can follow me Rattlesnake Master Paleoethnobotany and Ethnobotany

Sincerely, Dr. Elizabeth T. Horton

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06/24/2020

Scientists still report species as being 'discovered', even if they've been used by local populations for years.

06/24/2020

06/22/2020

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05/28/2020

Brief overview of the Maya Forest and the centuries of indigenous science that lead to the rich biodiversity of plant species.

05/18/2020

As archaeologists we often post information about laws that protect cultural resources and examples of the problems of looting - but plants also suffer from “looting” and they can be as much a “cultural resources” as they are a “natural resources” (for example ramps which are a valued traditional food stuff among many SE Indigenous societies). As more and more people become interested in “Wild foods” and “foraging” it’s important we remember that there are laws and ethics involved in collecting plants - and even publicizing their locations.

There’s something corruptive about secrets. But also something tantalizing. A bit of hard-earned advice: Think twice about posting p...