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From Dirt – Camille T. Dungy

Emergence Magazine Podcast

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Poplar Forests - The Food of the Land

Archaeologists have discovered cashes of food that give insight into the diet of enslaved men and women who lived on poplar forests. They probably grew sunflowers, mint, sweet potatoes and violets. Even the ornamental plants around the quarters were provisions the people who tended the land could eat. There is power to be generated from cultivating whatever might sustain me in whatever way i wish,. I plant what plants i desire, and i harvest or not as i choose.

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