Simon & Schuster Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden Paperback – Deckle Edge, 7 May 2024

Great gift! Great purchase

This is a terrific book, digging deeply into the soil which nurtures us all, and the cultures that it has nurtured. A striking, powerful, black woman's voice in a largely white ecosystem. Striking!

I believe God is in all things, and all things are in God. Camille T. Dungy connects all things to nature and nature to all things. I had to reread many parts of the book because you can get lost in the flow, however over time it actually felt like life as it was, as it is, and as it may be. Thank you for the amazing tour of your garden, on the surface and at the level of the seed and roots.

This book was life changing for me. I picked it up because I’m a Colorado resident working hard to change my landscape from grass to native plants. But Camille Dungy’s messages about the larger environmental impact of the choices we make for our yards deeply impacted me. The incredible way she wove together gardening, environmentalism, social justice, history, relationships, parenting and poetry magically connected parts of my life and passions I have which I had long been compartmentalizing. I highly recommend this book for everyone!

Conversation about the book flowed...a lot of gardeners in the group