When talking about Black people gardening and doing outdoors activities in America, we must consider how Black people have engaged with the outdoors throughout American history, and in particular how the trauma from slavery has affected their relationship with nature over time. Lonnie, Onion, and Q - along with their friend and guest Teddy - reflect on our experiences doing outdoors activities and how Black people in our lives engage with the outdoors. In that, we find our own loves and hesitations with the outdoors, and Teddy suggests how to begin overcoming any mental barriers that may keep us (and Black people more broadly) from gardening, hiking, and other things outside among nature. This is part 1 of a two-part episode with Teddy.
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