We’re still a little giddy about this one. Barbara Kingsolver wrote the Last Words for The American Gardener. ⁠ ⁠ In our July/August issue, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, longtime gardener and author of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle turns her attention to something every gardener eventually learns — you can’t garden without change.⁠ ⁠ Gardens move. Plants migrate. Climate shifts. What thrived in one place may struggle in another. And gardening well means paying attention, adapting and thinking beyond our own season in the garden.⁠ ⁠ Kingsolver writes⁠ ⁠ “In our way, we're leaders. Rooted in our traditions, keeping the past alive into the present, it's also our job to think about the most generous ways of tending our shared garden, cultivating green paths for the berry pickers yet to be born.”⁠ ⁠ We couldn’t have asked for a more thoughtful Last Words — or a better reminder that what we plant and tend now becomes part of someone else’s inheritance.⁠ ⁠ Read Barbara Kingsolver’s essay ...