Soil Cousins, come join me this weekend at the 2022 Soil Festival in Atlanta, GA presented by Food Well Alliance, Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture and WABE!

I’ll be doing some live interviews and 

catching up with some of my Soil Cousins you’ve heard on the Black in the Garden podcast.

You can enter to win passes to Atlanta Botanical Garden during our exclusive Soil Festival GIVEAWAY! You have to pull up to enter!

Enter the giveaway and purchase your signed copy of The Black in the Garden Coloring Experience! 

The 7th annual Soil Festival is a fundraiser to help boost Food Well Alliance's provision of resources and support for local growers. Tickets this year are $25 for Adults and $5 for Youth (16 and under). FREE for seniors and for neighbors living in the Truly Living Well service area, including Ashview Heights, Atlanta University Center, Bankhead, Capitol View, Capitol View Manor, English Avenue/Vine City, Hunter Hills, Just Us, Mozley Park, Washington Park, West End, and Westview. Admission includes food and beverages.

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This episode is focusing on artist Kristine Mays who's wire sculptures are currently touring public gardens across the U.S.(most recently featured at Atlanta Botanical Garden). The exhibit is called Rich Soil. Join us for part 1 of this conversation to get inspired by Kristines story of starting from humble beginnings in San Francisco.
 

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Kristine Mays, artist
(18) Rich Soil by Kristine Mays - YouTube

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This Year's 420 episode welcomes Cannabis Cup winner, vermicompost king and soil researcher Jules Giuliano. Jules gets into the weeds about cannabis cultivation with Colah B Tawkin. They discuss the life cycle of the plant and how vermicompost makes it less stressful to cultivate. Jules shares how he learned vermicomposting from a Chi Town stoner, how he taught his mom to compost and the unexpected story of his claim to the Cannabis Cup. Jules and Colah conclude with a plot for the next great stoner flick.

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Born in Ghana and raised in Liberia before coming to America as a child, landscape architect Jeanette Ankoma-Sey shares her journey, experience and unique perspective with Colah B Tawkin in this insightful conversation! She shed a lot of light on what goes into the work of pros like herself that is largely unappreciated by those they serve. Jeanette got her landscape architecture master's degree at Cornell and works for Arlington county in Arlington, Virginia, Department of Parks and Recreation.

Next time you're in Arlington Virginia,  you very likely could , find yourself engaging in a space that has been designed by our incredible guest, Jeanette Ankoma Sey!

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Colah B Tawkin and co-host Derek the Chocolate Botanist get caught up on some March events as the Spring is springing!  They're giving flowers, celebrating Botanical Black Excellence, and sharing their Plant Praise Reports. We even have a pop quiz assignment, Soil Cousins!
 Much respect was given to the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer, emphasizing how her humble beginnings shaped the vision for her Freedom Farm.

Proudly sponsored by Atlanta Botanical Garden

Flowers went to tiktok account @iamlegallyhype
and to Davida of IG account @condoplantmama

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Our Soil Cousin, Christopher ‘Plant Kween’ Griffin is releasing their book: 'You Grow, GURL!' and is back on the podcast to tell us more about it. We're excited about this milestone and the growth that’s taken place since our last conversation.
 Colah and Christopher laughed and cried discussing the highs and
lows of the journey towards this remarkable
accomplishment: published AUTHOR!

 If you haven't already preordered, you can getchu a copy today! Here’s the link:
https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/YouGrowGurl
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Colah had a conversation linking plants and technology with Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot (producer of Roomba) and head of consumer robotics company, Tertill Corporation to discuss the launch of the Tertill weeding robot. Helen discussed some of her contributions to robotics before she became a plantrepreneur.

To learn more about Tertill and the newly-launched Tertill Garden Program, an annual care plan for raised-bed gardens that includes a soil test, customized fertilizer plan featuring Tertill Organics, and personalized garden advice from experts – click here and use the offer code BITGROBOT25 at checkout to get $25 off your next purchase.

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We’re revisiting a special Throwback episode from the archive. This is ‘The Baby Boy Episode’ with our Soil Sista, Nora: Mama’s Gotta Have a Life Too!

Straight outta Season 1 from our humble beginnings of the podcast (fun fact: this episode had Colah recording in her dad’s car) we done come a mighty LONG way💫! This is a throwback for some, and our new Soil Cousins will enjoy this conversation about fictional black gardener Miss Juanita👩🏾‍🌾(played by AJ Johnson) from the John Singleton film, Baby Boy. Colah B Tawkin and Nora (the doula with the green🍃aura) discussed the pivotal plot point in the film that was set in Miss Juanita’s garden 

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Colah B Tawkin hosts a solo episode to speak from the heart about the most disappointing thing she learned In February 2022. Tune in to get the tea on what George Washington Carver’s relationship with Henry Ford had to do with it.

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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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