Black Girls Gardening: Empowering Stories and Garden Wisdom for Healing and Flourishing in Nature

(Hardback)

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A visual celebration of Black women and their gardens, filled with inspiration, stories, and the healing magic of gardening, based on the popular Instagram account BlackGirlsGardening.

Through first-person narratives and arresting photography, this unique gardening book profiles women who demonstrate how a gardening practice has the power to heal, empower, educate, and connect. Thirty-one compelling personal stories about creating backyard, flower, and vegetable gardens, participating in community gardens, and gardening with kids are included. Sidebars offer advice on composting, pest control, must-have tools, greenhouse gardens, and more.

In a beautiful, chunky package that can be read cover to cover or displayed on a coffee table, Black Girls Gardeningmakes a lovely gift for aspiring and practicing Black women gardeners, first-time homeowners, parents who garden with their kids, and women of all ages who enjoy sinking their hands into the soil.

GARDENING AS EMPOWERMENT: With stories on starting a garden from seed, building your own vegetable and flower beds, growing your own food, connecting with a community, and showing your kids the power and joy that come from these experiences, this uplifting book demonstrates how gardening empowers women and green thumbs of all ages and levels.

HEALTH BENEFITS: Gardening is good for you, and its a lifelong hobby! Spending time outside is an excellent way to relieve stress and anxiety, and gardening is an accessible and increasingly common pastime that provides respite from our indoor, online, sedentary lives. This book celebrates gardens as a sanctuary, a source of solace and joy, and a place for self-discovery and connection.

CELEBRATES DIVERSITY: This uniquely inspiring nature and gardening book highlights stories from Black, biracial, and multiracial women, an underrepresented audience in mainstream gardening, nature, and outdoor media.

Perfect for:

• Self-care gift or self-purchase for Black women, ages 18 - 50+
• Gift-giving for Mothers Day, birthday, housewarming, or retirement
• Women gardeners and aspiring green thumbs
• Garden admirers and nature enthusiasts
• First-time homeowners who want to plant a garden
• Followers of @BlackGirlsGardening
• Fans ofNature Swagger, Wild at Home, My Beautiful Black Hair, She Explores

Author Bio

Amber Grossman is the founder of BlackGirlsGardening, an online community designed to connect Black women gardeners and inspire others to start a garden and plant seeds back into the land. To add to her passion for plants and flowers, Amber also started The Pressed Wildflower, where she creates art with flowers for displays and keepsakes. Originally from upstate New York, she now resides in Wilmington, NC.