Black Girls Gardening: Empowering Stories and Garden Wisdom for Healing and Flourishing in Nature

A visual celebration of Black women and their gardens, filled with inspiration, stories, and the healing magic of gardening, based on the popular Instagram account BlackGirlsGardening.

"Arranged into themed sections on gardening with kids, growing for the kitchen, and community farming, this book provides both the inspiration and instruction to join the ranks of the badass, trowel-wielding women featured in its pages." --Oprah Daily

"This is a gardening book for all walks of life and any experience level. Each woman in Black Girls Gardening shares a unique gardening journey, but they all demonstrate how a gardening practice has the power to heal, empower, educate, and connect." --Essence

Through first-person narratives and arresting photography, this unique gardening book profiles women who demonstrate how a gardening practice has the power to heal, empower, educate, and connect. Thirty-one compelling personal stories about creating backyard, flower, and vegetable gardens, participating in community gardens, and gardening with kids are included. Sidebars offer advice on composting, pest control, must-have tools, greenhouse gardens, and more.

In a beautiful, chunky package that can be read cover to cover or displayed on a coffee table, Black Girls Gardening makes a lovely gift for aspiring and practicing Black women gardeners, first-time homeowners, parents who garden with their kids, and women of all ages who enjoy sinking their hands into the soil.

GARDENING AS EMPOWERMENT: With stories on starting a garden from seed, building your own vegetable and flower beds, growing your own food, connecting with a community, and showing your kids the power and joy that come from these experiences, this uplifting book demonstrates how gardening empowers women and green thumbs of all ages and levels.

HEALTH BENEFITS: Gardening is good for you, and it's a lifelong hobby! Spending time outside is an excellent way to relieve stress and anxiety, and gardening is an accessible and increasingly common pastime that provides respite from our indoor, online, sedentary lives. This book celebrates gardens as a sanctuary, a source of solace and joy, and a place for self-discovery and connection.

CELEBRATES DIVERSITY: This uniquely inspiring nature and gardening book highlights stories from Black, biracial, and multiracial women, an underrepresented audience in mainstream gardening, nature, and outdoor media.

Perfect for:

• Self-care gift or self-purchase for Black women, ages 18 - 50+
• Gift-giving for Mother's Day, birthday, housewarming, or retirement
• Women gardeners and aspiring green thumbs
• Garden admirers and nature enthusiasts
• First-time homeowners who want to plant a garden
• Followers of @BlackGirlsGardening
• Fans of Nature Swagger, Wild at Home, My Beautiful Black Hair, She Explores

Author: Amber Grossman
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 03/04/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781797228242


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2025 pg. 42

About the Author
Amber Grossman is the founder of BlackGirlsGardening, an online community designed to connect Black women gardeners and inspire others to start a garden and plant seeds back into the land. To add to her passion for plants and flowers, Amber also started The Pressed Wildflower, where she creates art with flowers for displays and keepsakes. Originally from upstate New York, she now resides in Wilmington, NC.