{"title":"Heritage Garden","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePlanted by Ancestors. Tended by Us. Passed On to You.\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong before Louisiana had a name, its land was already a garden. Indigenous nations tended the prairies and bayous with intention — harvesting, healing, and planting in ways that shaped every culture that followed. The Cajuns brought their prairie wisdom from the Maritimes. The Creoles wove African, Caribbean, and European plant knowledge into something entirely new. The settlers carried heirloom seeds across oceans and planted them in unfamiliar soil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Heritage Garden is where all of those stories live together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not just plants. They are living documents — of trade routes and medicine traditions, of grandmothers and Traiteurs, of the Black Hand Stirring the Pot and the Cajun grandmother's fig tree that outlasted everything. Each one carries a lineage. Each one belongs to a larger story of Louisiana's layered, luminous culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eFive Cultural Traditions. One Living Garden.\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e🪶 Indigenous \u0026amp; Native American Roots\u003c\/strong\u003e — Plants that fed, healed, and sustained the first peoples of Louisiana's prairies and bayous\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e🏡 Cajun Prairie \u0026amp; Food Heritage\u003c\/strong\u003e — The plants that traveled with the Acadians and took root in the Louisiana prairie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e🌺 Creole, African \u0026amp; Caribbean Heritage\u003c\/strong\u003e — A rich fusion of plant traditions carried across the Atlantic and through the Caribbean\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e⚜️ European Settler Heirloom Herbs\u003c\/strong\u003e — Old World plants that crossed the ocean and found a new home in Louisiana soil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e♻️ Dual Collection Plants\u003c\/strong\u003e — The golden thread between Heritage Garden and Healing Garden — plants that belong to both worlds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four plants that bridge both collections — Elderberry, Maypop, Red Mulberry, and Black-Eyed Susan — are your best cross-garden companions. Find them here, and find them again in the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/healing-garden\"\u003eHealing Garden\u003c\/a\u003e, where the medicine tradition runs deep.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"heritage-garden-consultation-native-louisiana","title":"Heritage Garden Consultation — Native Louisiana Plants","description":"\u003ch2\u003eReplace Your Lawn With Living Louisiana Heritage\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook a one-on-one \u003cstrong\u003eHeritage Garden Consultation\u003c\/strong\u003e with Big Mamou Enterprises — a 60-minute native plant landscape design session rooted in the \u003cem\u003etraiteur\u003c\/em\u003e healing garden tradition of Southwest Louisiana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouisiana's native plants — swamp iris (\u003cem\u003eIris virginica\u003c\/em\u003e), dwarf palmetto (\u003cem\u003eSabal minor\u003c\/em\u003e), native wildflowers, Gulf Coast prairie grasses, and time-honored medicinal herbs — have thrived in this climate, soil, and water for generations. 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