And.īLOCK: You're thinking of Annie Dillard there, especially.ĭUNGY: I'm thinking specifically of Annie Dillard and also Mary Oliver. Why is that so annoying to you?ĭUNGY: I wonder who is excluded if the spokesmen for that issue are solitary white men? And in the cases where they are women, those women write themselves into that tradition of solitude. You mention Henry David Thoreau and Edward Abbey - men with nobody to think of or worry about but themselves is how you put it. You also link, Camille, the notion of diversifying your landscape with diversifying what we think of as sort of the canon of nature writing, which you mention and, as something that really confounds and annoys you, a lot of it has been written mostly by men - white men - wandering alone. And the garden supports my belief that that patience can very frequently pay off.īLOCK: Hmm. A garden can be a place of rest and beauty, but a garden also teaches me patience and that the work of a politically engaged person often requires true patience. And that's exhausting to live with that kind of attention. Dungy says every politically engaged person should have a garden - could be just a pot in a window or a plot in the yard.ĭUNGY: A politically engaged person is anybody who lives with an interest and concern about the daily complications of moving through the world for so many of us. I can't dig in my garden, she writes, without digging up all this old dirt. She writes about this in her new memoir, titled "Soil: The Story Of A Black Mother's Garden." Her book is about transforming and diversifying her garden, but it's also about motherhood and community and how, for her, a Black woman in a predominantly white town, thinking about land is deeply rooted in thoughts about this country's history and about race. So right now, we have a very blond garden.īLOCK: Camille Dungy has spent many years turning her weed-filled, water-hogging, suburban Colorado lawn into a pollinator's paradise filled with drought-tolerant native plants. They stay up all winter.ĭUNGY: To create winter interest and something more interesting to look at - but also, a lot of the native pollinators will nest or plant their eggs and larva under and around many of these native plants. I show Camille some hot pink phlox, some spiky white foamflower.Īnd there's some purple columbine - sort of a deep plum color.īut I can see that, out in Colorado, Camille Dungy's garden, at altitude - it's a couple of months behind mine.ĭUNGY: That'll be the start for the poet's daffodil, which I planted just because I had to have a poet's daffodil in my yard.īLOCK: (Laughter) Sometimes it's all about the name, right?īLOCK: And she hasn't cut back the tall, dried grasses from last season or the dead stalks from her sunflowers. Do you see the bunny in the distance?īLOCK: Now, you have managed to make peace with your bunny rabbits in a way, Camille, that I have not.ĭUNGY: I have made peace with the rabbits. There's some rabbitbrush and.ĭUNGY: There's a bunny. In Fort Collins, Colo., Poet Camille Dungy has done the same thing.ĭUNGY: I'm going to walk you first through what we call the prairie project.īLOCK: We connected by FaceTime video, garden to garden.ĭUNGY: Sunflowers - and I love this one. And about 1,500 miles west of me.ĬAMILLE DUNGY: Good morning. They're mostly native, friendly to pollinators. We've ripped up all the sod, and we filled what used to be lawn with flowering perennials. Use Pith Root to fix Calabasa's sickle at Kabocha's shop.īring Ollie 6 Moon Kelp from Wonder Pond.ĭefeat Rots on Cube Coast until you retrieve Rose's sword.And why not? It's spring, so let's get out of the studio and into the garden.īLOCK: Like many of you, I bet, I've spent a lot more time in my garden during the COVID years. Tell Rana in Spring Hamlet that Ragosa and Dart wants to see them.īoost all Spring Hamlet levels to 3 and Rana will visit Lilyputt again. Use the Dowsing Rod to trigger the two handles on the right side of the screen and stop the flooding.īring Pagu 6 Pith Root from Autumn Town or from Rot Drops in the Summer Bar. Give the parasol you receive to Skimmer.īring Pearl 3 succulent leaves to fix the forge. Deliver Goldie's supplies to Mirabelle at the beach.īring Maraschino 2 Glass Lens from jars on the beach.ĭestroy all the shelled Rots in Summer's End. Listen closely to what the villager is asking for to complete the request.Ī list of favors and how to complete them is below.Įnter the secret way to Goldie's location in Spring Hamlet Riverway, to the right and bottom of the Riverway Bridge behind the trees. They usually result in story progress or Concord getting a tool or weapon vital to their survival. Favors are special requests not on the request board.
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