We were so honored to talk with Colah Tawkin from BlackInTheGarden for our most recent Garden Story! In 2019, Colah launched the Black in the Garden Podcast, with the goal of creating a platform to uplift Black voices in the garden podcast space. She speaks with Black plant keepers, artists, entomologists, botanists, parents, environmentalists, authors, and more who share about their passions and lived experiences. Colah’s creativity and desire to produce content for Black plant lovers has also manifested in the Black in the Garden Coloring Book, illustrated by Paula Champagne makerchamp. (It is pictured above.) The book is a collection of peaceful, calming, and beautifully-outlined images of Black gardeners, created with the aim of being used as a tool for Black kids to have visual examples of Black people involved with plants. “If [kids] don’t see people that look like them who do it, then subconsciously they do not feel like there is a place for them,” says Colah. Colah and her...