“Drive through American suburbia and one landscaped yard differs little from another. Neatly clipped lawn, the same flowers and plants, all kept under control with an onslaught of poisons. Camille Dungy’s yard at her home in Fort Collins, Colorado, is nothing like that. She calls it rewilding her garden. Her book is Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster, 2023).”
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