'Soil' weaves together a poet's experience of gardening, race and community
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Soil, the Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Camille Dungy has spent many years turning her weed-filled suburban Colorado lawn into a pollinator's paradise filled with drought-tolerant native plants. She writes about this in her new memoir titled Soil, the story of a Black Mother's Garden. A garden can be a place of rest and beauty, but a garden also teaches me patience, she says. "The work of a politically engaged person often requires true patience"
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