Daisy Mae Dunlap discusses how gardening influenced her life while growing up in York, South Carolina and later, living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Dunlap describes how her family wasn't that negatively affected by the Great Depression because her father had a job with the government. When she was young, her family had a garden in which every member of the family helped. She talks about attending Jefferson High School, which was an all-Black school during segregation, starting a family in her late teens, and working as a housekeeper and in a cafeteria. Ms. Dunlap discusses working in the Wilmore Community Garden for the past two years, and how she was first inspired to want to garden from her grandfather.
