HomeNature Book Club — ‘Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden’ (Off-Site)

Nature Book Club — ‘Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden’ (Off-Site)

HomeNature Book Club — ‘Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden’ (Off-Site)

Wednesday, February 21

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

LOCATION: New Pond Farm Education Center

Co-Sponsored by New Pond Farm Education Center and Redding Land Trust

Delve more deeply into nature, ecology and wildlife with a new bookclub focusing on science, conservation and natural history! Whether you’re an avid birder, a devoted gardener or an enthusiastic weekend hiker, you’ll expand your understanding of the world around us while also meeting folks who share a devotion to our planet!

The Nature Book Club is moderated by Cole Tucker-Walton, a Redding Land Trust board member and author of Redding’s Big Outdoors column in the Redding Sentinel, and John McLeran, a member of the Redding Land Trust and Town of Redding’s Open Space Manager.

This bookclub will meet for three sessions on Wednesdays at 11:30 am at New Pond Farm Education Center, 101 Marchant Road, Redding. Books will be available to borrow at the Library. Space is limited, so please register early!

Dates and Selections:

Wednesday, November 8 — Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2015)
UPCOMING:
Wednesday, February 21 — Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy (2023)
Poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado.  Dungy employs the various plants, herbs, vegetables, and flowers she grows in 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.
Wednesday, May 8 — Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper (2023)

Join us for one or all sessions. Participants are asked to register separately for each session.  Register below for February 21st.

 




Registration is currently closed for this event.


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