Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden

Ginger says: If there’s anything cozier than actual gardening, it might just be armchair gardening. Camille Dungy writes about her project to diversify the plants in her garden—branching out in the vegetables, herbs, and flowers she grows in a quest to protect biodiversity on her planet, but also as an image of what diversity can do in a community. Readers say to pick this up if you loved The Serviceberry or The Comfort of Crows.