Black in the Garden

Colah took some time to elaborate on how the Black in the Garden theme song 🎶came together and pontificated on ancestral connections to seed starting. 🌱She still wants you to text her! 📱833-819-3926 This episode was Recorded early spring before Mothers Day with our plantrepreneurial guest, Karla Smith-Brown founder of OLIVEE Floral, an artistic floral design studio in Brooklyn, New York. Karla...

Colah is excited about the new Black in the Garden Coloring Experience! Get yours TODAY: https://blkinthegarden.com/store/p/bitg-coloring-book This episode digs deeper into Colah B Tawkin’s journey that lead her to becoming the host of Black in the Garden podcast. She fills in some of the blanks that needed filling on this transparent and vulnerable episode. Text Colah: 833-819-3926 and save the n...

Ayyyyee! Enjoy part 2 of our conversation with Natalie Baszile which opens with a thought provoking hypothetical question. Colah B Tawkin and Natalie discussed her father’s influence on her fictional world and Colah’s highlights from We Are Each Other’s Harvest. Natalie thoughtfully breaks down the difference between a Historian vs storyteller and helps us understand how to know you’re a storytell...

Colah B Tawkin had the pleasure of being in conversation with author Natalie Baszile who is most widely known for having written the novel 'Queen Sugar'. Natalie spoke with Colah from Oakland about her family gardening legacy, her writing process, her favorite flowers and how they're necessary in her life. In this beautiful exchange, Natalie shared her fave recipe for her homegrown lemons and Cola...

Issa Throwback! We bringing back this episode to celebrate Black Botanists Week 2021. Join us on Part 2 of 2  for a discussion on George Washington Carver! We're not here for the peanut lessons you learned in school either. Colah B Tawkin has a convo with modern day Botanical Brotha and chocolate botanist, Derek. Colah B Tawkin and Derek got to talking DIRTY about soil because GWC was the Iyanla V...

Issa Throwback! We bringing back this episode to celebrate Black Botanists Week 2021. Join us on Part 1 of 2  for a discussion on George Washington Carver! We're not here for the peanut lessons you learned in school either. Colah B Tawkin has a convo with modern day Botanical Brotha and crazy botanist, Derek. We get rap with Derek and come to learn a bit about Carver's influence on him because rep...

 Episode 5 of Season 4 opens with an enthusiastic chat about a recent visit to Atlanta Botanical Garden between Colah and our Soil Cousin from NYC, Niyyah who you ought to know as @thebloomjourney online. Colah had the pleasure of welcoming Moe Hemmings, Community Outreach Manager at Atlanta Botanical Garden to the podcast. They chopped it up about Moe's interests and work at ABG. Colah was excite...

This week we’re joined by a dear friend of the show & OG Soil Cousin: mushroom enthusiast, moon and Monstera whisperer Carrington to discuss her passions. Spoiler alert: All her passions are linked to veganism and embodying the mission to do no harm but you gotta tune in for the tea. Carrington was an inspiration to Colah in a way that we hope will also be inspiring to you on your growing jour...

Charleston native, Public servant, teacher, Founder of Red Rice day, food historian, sneaker head, founder of Black food Fridays (aka your fave Black foodie on Tik Tok) host of Fix Your Plate podcast, future television host and visionary Blackspert: KJ Kearney joined Colah for a deep dive on Black culture through the lens of Black food and Gullah Geechee culture. Find out how Black in the Garden i...

Episode 2 of Season 4 kicks off with a new segment with the ‘chirren’ and The Chocolate botanist Derek Haynes. Our guest is media legend Ananda Lewis! Ananda was excited to be on Black  in the Garden because of the 1000+ interviews she’s participated in she had never had a conversation about her relationship with plants. Colah and Ananda discussed how plants helped her survive cancer, how plants h...

Black in the Garden kicks off Season 4 during Juneteenth and Father’s Day weekend with a candid conversation between Colah and her Dad.  Daddy B Tawkin discusses his dad and early years farming, his family’s garden and life in rural Georgia during the Civil Rights era. Mama B Tawkin even made a cameo! Dig in to this episode to hear more about: Why Daddy didn’t want to continue farming as an adult....

Colah has another compelling conversation with our OG Soil Sista, Brittany from Season 1, Ep. 8: Stay #PlantWoke.  This bonus episode (we still spring breakin) is all things momming and it’s explicit, real and as witty as you’ve come to expect from the conversations with Colah B Tawkin on Black in the Garden! Reference episode: Good Moms Bad Choices: How to Heal Your Inner Child ft. Devi Brown Kee...

Episode 10 of season 2 is Part 1 of conversation with Monai, known by many as the Plant Mom of Amsterdam. She talks us through her journey from a kid in Jamaica Queens raised by a mama who made her go outside and camp every summer to becoming an international plant revolutionary in Amsterdam. She dabbled in floristry and fashion merchandising but a lunch break plant habit activated the plant mom i...

Colah is pumping the (Spring) Breaks on Season 3 because: rest! Stay tuned for updates and Bonus episodes as we prepare for Season 4 in May. CawBFXULJBfBvOFPQMVd ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nubi Interiors boss, environmental curator and designer extraordinaire, Carmeon Hamilton joined Colah to discuss her journey from child of a Plant Lady to multi talented designer in high demand! Carmeon shares how she almost quit plants but they never quit her, how she feels about her feature in Architectural Digest and much more!  Follow on Instagram: @carmeon.hamilton Go to carmeonhamilton.com ...

Colah wants us all to get matching Black in the Garden t-shirts and eradicate some very stubborn weeds. As we dig deeper into Season 3 we are Joined by the multi creative video maven and storytelling content creator, Hallease!  Hallease knew plants were important from a tender age influenced by her grandfather, but it took decorating her apartment to claim some additional plant benefits leading to...

Colah has some announcements, most notably Merch is AVAILABLE now on blkinthegarden.com 🥳and supplies are limited so cop yours TODAY! This episode may not be for the faint of heart but it definitely is for the open minded as our conversation is centering entomophagy: the practice of eating insects.🍴🐌🍴 Colah and JaVon Lattimore, our resident entomophagy enthusiast, have a very insightful conver...

Colah is solo this week (Last week was a bye week because: moving) reflecting on when the seed of this podcast took root and getting hype about sowing spring seeds!  Spring is springing optimism and this episode connects sowing seeds to a few themes like Setting intentions, Optimism and Visualizing.  Colah shares a few tips for sowing seeds (which we will revisit in depth again soon) and sowing wi...

Episode 12 of Season 3 is upon us as Colah B Tawkin reflect on some lessons from Black History Month 2021.  We’re joined by floral and wood designer, John Pendleton from Chicago. Colah and John unpacked quite a bit on topics like: 🪵Masculinity in the floral design world. 🌷His love for sawdust and creating boutonnières.   💐Musings on the vision and six figure flower budget of the Roc Nation brun...

***If this episode appears late or double please excuse the technical hiccup. If this episode was missing from your library...Enjoy!*** Colah B Tawkin is back like she never left in the Season 3 PREMIERE of Black in the Garden. 🥳We start on a vulnerable note as Colah makes a passionate call to action.  We have a cute new segment with the kids and our Urban Farm Sista Nadia to help us learn and em...

Colah needs your feedback!  Complete the Soil Cousin survey to be entered to win $$  ✏️ https://forms.gle/hJZuUdnLxMMrXkb37 On Episode 11 of Season 3 Colah talks with Environmental artists and community service visionaries: Tim and Nicole of  Detroit Hives! Colah B Tawkin is excited to share their story with you that started with A jar of local honey from the corner store on a snack run. That hone...

Soil Cousins! Issa CROSSOVER episode! Colah B Tawkin was interviewed by host of The Black Equity Podcast, our #Podcousin, DJ Moultrie. Enjoy learning more about Colah as she speaks candidly about her journey, creativity, visions for Black folks in agriculture and much more! “What you do on one level, you do on another” DJ Moultrie Subscribe and listen to Black Equity Network: https://linktr.ee/bla...

Colah rings in the Negro New Year aka Black History Month with her Soil Cousins Kamili and Derek from The Plant Kiki to (hilariously) highlight Botanical Black History Figure Dr. Marie Clark Taylor. Tune into the 'Bustin Down Botanical Black History' episode of the Plant Kiki for the whole conversation. We continue our conversation with Alexander Hardy in the pre-quel from 2020 when he first becam...

On Episode 9 of Season 3 we take time to Learn a bit from Dr. Hayley about Cover Crops aka Green Manure in the Garden 411.🍃♻️ Colah introduces the sequel to the prequel of her conversation with her writerly friend, Alexander Hardy who recently published an article🖊: Deeply rooted: What plant fatherhood taught me about caring for myself In the conversation unpacking this dope article we get into A...

Podcaster, author, business woman, plantrepreneur AND plantfluencer extraordinaire Jade aka the  Fiddle leaf fig whisperer joins us on Season 3!  Jade chops it up with Colah B Tawkin and  tells us how the plants chose her. If you’ve heard The Black Plant Chick podcast you know    How much Jade loves Big plant energy! She drops gems on building community,  Consulting and knowing your worth. Of cour...