All Master Gardeners and Interns are invited to join the Dallas County Master Gardener Book Club—”Garden Plots.” Garden Plots was created in November 2020 as a means of staying connected during the time of COVID.

The group meets virtually on the first Thursday of each month from 2 to 4 p.m., using Zoom. The group spends the first 15 minutes socializing and catching up with each other. Then, discuss a book about nature and gardening for an hour or so, leaving a few minutes at the end for more socializing.

The club alternates between fiction and non-fiction books. In January this year they discussed The Seed Keeper, a novel by Diane Wilson about a woman descended from Dakota women with souls of iron—women who have protected their families, their traditions, and a precious cache of seeds through generations of hardship and loss.

At the February 3 meeting they discussed The Hummingbirds’ Gift: Wonder, Beauty, and Renewal of Wing by Sy Montgomery. The Hummingbirds’ Gift is about a woman who rescues abandoned hummingbirds and nurses them back to health until they can fly away and live in the wild.

Email cindylarge2014@yahoo.com if you want to be added to their mailing list and get links to their meetings. The meetings will also be posted on the website calendar. All the club asks is for you to read the book and be prepared for the discussion with questions or comments.

Everyone has a say in choosing books to read. The reading list for upcoming meetings includes:

• March 3: Entangled Life – How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our
  Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
• April 7: The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly
• May 5: The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Evan Stone