Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden | 
pickThis was mostly about a black mother‘s garden in Fort Collins, CO. However, it was also about being a mother during remote learning and COVID, being black and living in Fort Collins/US, environmental practices, and neighbors told eloquently by a poet.
pickI am so so inspired by this book!! Nature writing from a mother of a young girl, a lovely perspective. Dungy is also a wife, professor and black woman living in the suburbs of Fort Collins, Colorado. She takes the reader along with her as she creates a native landscape, establishing a space for plants and animals. Along the way, Dungy explores the racial issues which have historically and currently plague America. And awesome audiobook! Loved it!
pickA beautiful memoir about the garden Dungy has created in the yard of her Fort Collins home. She describes how she built it, what she's planted & challenges she's faced. Through her garden, Dungy also explores Black joy, climate change, colonialism, and racism. She claims nature writing as a genre that belongs to working people, mothers, and Black people. You don't have to be a gardener to enjoy this book, but it probably helps. 🌱🌻🌾 #netgalley
pickDungy invites us into her garden, and from there to explore the world that surrounds us. She mirrors our society and history with the essential messiness of gardening, embracing the struggle and the beauty that lies there. An inclusive and lyrical read that I recommend to gardeners of the soil and the mind. I received this book from NetGalley in return for an honest review.
