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Podcast: Cultivating Place
Episode: Uprooting - finding and growing our way home, with Marchelle Farrell
Description: Caribbean-born British-based writer and Gardener Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside, Finding Home in an English Country Garden. A medical doctor by training, Marchelle’s work unflinchingly surveys her own journey to life in an English country garden and along the way unearths the hard edges but also the richness of the contributions of the African diaspora to our modern gardening world—contributions made willingly and unwillingly, seen, and unseen, acknowledged and unacknowledged.
Known as Afroliage online, Marchelle’s writing, a gardening story shared, and home deeply rooted are healing and re-integrating, in that w...