Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

THURSDAY, JUNE 19

Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

7:00–8:30 PM

Camille T. Dungy, Poet, Scholar, and Author

In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominantly white community of Fort Collins, Colorado, which limited what residents could plant in their gardens. In resistance to these restrictive policies, Dungy employs 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.

Free of charge | Virtual event (a Zoom link will be emailed to participants prior to lecture date)

This virtual lecture is a part of our Third Thursday Lecture series

Host or Publisher Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens