Events › Nature Book Club (Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden)

Every other month, the Nature Book Club meets at the Library for a lively discussion of a non-fiction book about nature.  ELPL STEAM Educator Dr. B facilitates these participant-driven conversations.  Everyone is invited to join in these discussions, but the group is recommended for teens and adults given the reading-level of the books considered.

Light refreshments will be provided.  No registration required.

For the meeting on Saturday, February 10th (11:30am-1:30pm), we'll be discussing Camille Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden.  Camille Dungy is an author, poet, and professor of English at Colorado State University.   Dungy has twice been nominated for an NAACP Image Award and her work has been recognized with several fellowships, including from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.  In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, she explores the complex relationships between place, nature, and people, highlighting the importance of nurturing and cultivating diversity in gardens as well as a diversity in how we view nature and construct our strategies of environmentalism, broadly.