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Garden Caretaker:

Victoria Ferguson

Victoria Ferguson is an enrolled member of the Monacan Indian Nation of Virginia. She is a graduate of Marshall University and has a background in researching science methodologies to support historical information. Ferguson has spent 25 years seeking first-person documentation and archaeological information to help explain and support theories on the daily living habits of the Eastern Siouan populations up through the early European colonization period. She has written and presented work at Virginia Tech, Washington and Lee University, Sweet Briar College, James Madison University, and at a number of archaeological conferences. Miss Vicky was one of two founding elders who cultivated the establishment of Virginia Tech Indigenous Community Garden in 2014. She works to share and pass her knowledge when it comes to seed-keeping and tending rare heirlooms to the Indigenous students at Virginia Tech.