Soil : : the Story of a Black Mother's Garden

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Call Number: Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Conservation / Dungy, Camille T., 635.097 Du
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Includes readers guide.
"In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in her garden as metaphor and treatise for how homogeneity threatens the future of our planet, and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting it"-- Provided by publisher.

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Meditative submitted by mowjac on June 12, 2023, 12:07pm Dunghy is a poet and her language is beautiful. Her essays are more like poems, with conflicts and possibilities awoken and spoken of, but rarely concluded or resolved. She uses plants as metaphors for social constructs in illuminating ways. As a gardener and a writer, I really enjoyed this book.

Vibrant submitted by nelsonr on August 7, 2024, 7:05pm This is an amazing set of essays, all related to the experience of gardening or being a home gardener. Dungy ties the experience of gardening to the history of the land that she's gardening on, including past political and historical conflicts, and information about the creatures on that land. While she discusses many different types of plants, birds, crops, insects, and land animals, she also discusses sexism and racism. The poems that separate chapters are amazing.