For Black People, Plant Parenthood Is Deeper Than Instagram

We can commune and engage with plants in both spiritual and practical ways

Gabrielle Hickmon
ZORA
Published in
5 min readJun 26, 2020

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A young black woman in a plant store admiring a plant.
Photo: Artem Varnitsin/EyeEm/Getty Images

I, like many others, became a plant mom during quarantine. At first, I thought my interest in plants was just a reaction to the stressors of life today. However, while researching plants I was considering buying, I reflected on my ancestral…

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Gabrielle Hickmon
ZORA
Writer for

a model for Black girls who live on the road, Gabrielle Hickmon is a writer, author, and podcast co-host who rarely finds herself in one place for too long.