Join us to learn more about gardening, climate justice, and how to challenge racism codified in community policy.
From the publisher’s site: “In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden, poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the predominately white community of Fort Collins, Colorado. When she moved there in 2013, with her husband and daughter, the community held strict restrictions about what residents could and could not plant in their gardens. In resistance to the homogenous policies that limited the possibility and wonder that grows from the earth, 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.”
4 Mondays July 15, 22, 29, and August 5, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m. via Zoom, plus Canvas
6 PD Hours and $200 stipend for eligible faculty who attend 3 sessions and complete a written reflection
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Open to faculty and staff. Contact Christina Sciabarra or Kelli Callahan for more information. Developed by the Sustainability Curriculum Committee and co-sponsored by Faculty Commons.
Last Updated July 1, 2024