One Woman’s Meat

Letters of a Woman Homesteader, Soil, and the Absence of Mothers’ Stories

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I recently finished reading Camille T. Dungy’s new book Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. It’s an incredible work, bringing together gardening, ecology, America’s history of racism and ongoing violence against anyone who isn’t white, and the absence of women, people of color, and particularly mothers in any writing that’s considered “environmental.”…