Tilling The Soil

Well done hosts Erin and Amber!!! I grew up in Louisiana and no longer live there but I didn’t know much of its true history until this podcast. Listening to each episode was like peeling the layers of an onion and so much information was imparted. Some of the information was hard to hear because of the injustice that many residents have suffered in spite of this I actually looked forward to each episode. I enjoyed the way the narrator, Erin, passionately connected with each person that was interviewed. My favorite episode was the Louisiana Bucket Brigade’s Down by the River environmental justice tour. The podcast has motivated me to plan a family trip to Louisiana and include tours of a few plantations and the justice tour.

I visited The Whitney Plantation last year; so informative and absolutely the experience that I needed to continue to dive into my culture, community and history. Thank you for this podcast.

This podcast is so informative and I can’t wait for more episodes. The hosts are so engaging and I’m learning a lot about our history, good and bad. The intro song is fire, too!

I’ve always loved history and history museums, which is why I was so excited when Tilling the Soil dropped. This wonderful show pours so much love into honoring the past, present, and future work of Black history-keeping and preservation that I’m assigning some episodes to my students. I hope the show is as rewarding for the Whitney’s production team as it is for listeners like me.