Black in the Garden

WE BACK Soil Cousins!

Welcome to season 5 of Black in the Garden podcast, proudly sponsored by Atlanta Botanical Garden. We back like we never left with Colah B Tawkin and Derek Haynes, the Chocolate Botanist! 

Dig in to to this episode to hear 

Giving Flowers to: Wendy Williams for Black broadcasting excellence.  

Botanical Black History Mixtape Volume 1 feat. Wangari Maathai, Blanche King Hurston, Cleopatra and young Kendall Rae Johnson

Story time: Colah’s journey from volunteer at Atlanta Botanical Garden in 2018 to an unprecedented partnership with them in 2022.

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Colah checks in to answer a burning question by tapping into the WHY with a critical piece of the Black in the Garden origin story and Kwanzaa principle du jour. Thanks, Soil Cousins, for tuning in during 2021 and cheers to ringing in 2022 along with Season 5 of our podcast. 

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Colah is joined by CoHost and ethnobotany expert, Derek ‘the chocolate botanist’ Haynes to explore the questionable ethics of chocolate cultivation. They want you to think twice before you take your next bite! Turns out, Derek is also a Roald Dahl expert as he brilliantly connected Willy Wonka lore to the subject at hand.

Trigger warning: this episode contains mention of sex trafficking and child slavery.

Follow and support our resident botanical Blackspert  Derek:

@thechocolatebotanist in Instagram 

Youtube:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCxsce8LaWKVw2g0-xDqdPNg

References:

https://chargedaffairs.org/the-hidden-ingredient-in-chocolate-africas-child-slaves/

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It’s the jump off of Season 4.5: Black in the Garden & Friends! Colah’s friend/ friend of the show Derek Haynes aka The Chocolate botanist cohosts with Colah to unpack the experience of grief during this recent season of loss. 

This episode is dedicated to the memory of our recently departed ancestors Mama B Tawkin: Mary Rogers, Ronald Areson Godette, uncle Adolph brown Sr, Karen Booker and Castillo Godette 

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Ayyyeee! Back from a bereavement hiatus: Let’s catch up on catching up as we tap in with Colah before season 4.5 begins! 

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Colah took some time to elaborate on how the Black in the Garden theme song 🎶came together and pontificated on ancestral connections to seed starting. 🌱She still wants you to text her! 📱833-819-3926

This episode was Recorded early spring before Mothers Day with our plantrepreneurial guest, Karla Smith-Brown founder of OLIVEE Floral, an artistic floral design studio in Brooklyn, New York. Karla talked with Colah about her grandmother’s legacy in relation to how she named her floral business and Sustainable practices in floral industry. This conversation also included:

Best practice for pressing flowers

How Karla extends the life of flowers 

Tea on set designing and Karla’s editorial features 

The Soil Sista vibes were present!✨🌱

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https://www.oliveefloral.com/about

Instagram : @oliveefloral

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Colah is excited about the new Black in the Garden Coloring Experience!

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This episode digs deeper into Colah B Tawkin’s journey that lead her to becoming the host of Black in the Garden podcast. She fills in some of the blanks that needed filling on this transparent and vulnerable episode.

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Ayyyyee! Enjoy part 2 of our conversation with Natalie Baszile which opens with a thought provoking hypothetical question. Colah B Tawkin and Natalie discussed her father’s influence on her fictional world and Colah’s highlights from We Are Each Other’s Harvest. Natalie thoughtfully breaks down the difference between a Historian vs storyteller and helps us understand how to know you’re a storyteller. Gems were dropped as usual as should be expected from such a brilliant guest!

To show your support for Natalie Baszile, she asks you for TWO THINGS:

1 Buy her books from a black book store like BMBROOKlyn.com

2 Volunteer 

National black food and justice alliance  

https://www.blackfoodjustice.org/

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Colah B Tawkin had the pleasure of being in conversation with author Natalie Baszile who is most widely known for having written the novel 'Queen Sugar'. Natalie spoke with Colah from Oakland about her family gardening legacy, her writing process, her favorite flowers and how they're necessary in her life. In this beautiful exchange, Natalie shared her fave recipe for her homegrown lemons and Colah got to teach Natalie a new word! 

This is part 1 of 2 so tune in next week for more tea on Baszile's latest anthology: 'We Are Each Other's Harvest' 

Learn more about Nataile Baszile's incredible literature:

nataliebaszile.com

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Issa Throwback! We bringing back this episode to celebrate Black Botanists Week 2021.

Join us on Part 2 of 2  for a discussion on George Washington Carver! We're not here for the peanut lessons you learned in school either. Colah B Tawkin has a convo with modern day Botanical Brotha and chocolate botanist, Derek. Colah B Tawkin and Derek got to talking DIRTY about soil because GWC was the Iyanla Vanzant of soil as he was out there FIXIN it! Our beloved ancestor was in them southern streets pushin his Agricultural School on wheels traveling from one busted farm to the next and Pimpin 'em like Xzibit! You may have never benefited from the resources available from your local Cooperative Extension Service; Colah and Derek explain why you should and never forget who you have to thank for that!

Reference links:

https://agriculture.mo.gov/gwc.php

http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-1870

https://www.tuskegee.edu/programs-courses/colleges-schools/caens/cooperative-extension-program

https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-george-washington-carver

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Celebrate Black Botanists with us:

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Keep up with Derek, our #Botanicalbrotha :

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The Crazy Botanist on Facebook and Youtube (subscribe!)

Visit TheCrazybotanist.com

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