This piece is a part of our series Earthseed, which explores Parable of the Sower’s legacy in shaping our current attitudes toward food futures.
For the second installment of MOLD Magazine’s Earthseed Bookclub, assistant curator and head gardener at Huntington Library, Stephen Reid leads a discussion on chapters 9-13 of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower. During this bookclub, Stpehen shares about gardening as a system for mediating change, which he first wrote about in his piece “Finding Harmony in Entropy” for MOLD’s Earthseed editorial series. Revisit the conversation and follow along with our bookclub in the video below: