The Covid Garden radio series: Linda Parsons

Identifier

000024150

Alt Identifier

cip.2021.03.01

Asset Type

Date

February 2021, February 2021

Description (In the fall of 2020, a group of food growers from eastern Kentucky and eastern Tennessee gathered together to tell and share their COVID stories. In this radio documentary (1 of 4 radio stories), Linda Parsons shares how her connection with the land shares roots with childhood traumas and joys, mixed feelings about community response to the pandemic, and the uncertainty of a future over which we have no control. “I think the pandemic has shown us how little control we have over our lives beyond practicing personal safety and common sense. […] The gardens school me on any ideas I have of control, lessons on sacrificing the fig tree after an inner and an outer drought, on moving the little Japanese maple to rebalance the bones of the middle bed.”)

In the fall of 2020, a group of food growers from eastern Kentucky and eastern Tennessee gathered together to tell and share their COVID stories. In this radio documentary (1 of 4 radio stories), Linda Parsons shares how her connection with the land shares roots with childhood traumas and joys, mixed feelings about community response to the pandemic, and the uncertainty of a future over which we have no control. “I think the pandemic has shown us how little control we have over our lives beyond practicing personal safety and common sense. […] The gardens school me on any ideas I have of control, lessons on sacrificing the fig tree after an inner and an outer drought, on moving the little Japanese maple to rebalance the bones of the middle bed.”

Creator

Parsons, Linda (artist)

Media Type

Sound

Subjects

Creating in Place project, Gardening

Related Collection

Creating in Place Project Collection