Past Lectures
2023
Nancy Lawson, author and Master Naturalist, Founder of The Humane Gardener, LLC
A World of Discovery: How Science and Heart Can Make You a More Ecological Gardener
2022
Viginia Nazarea, author and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia
Moveable Gardens and Commensal Tables: Rooting in an Age of Displacement
2021
Bland Simpson, UNC Kenan Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, author, and musician
North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky
View recording.
2020
Ira Wallace, seed saver, owner of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, and author
Heirloom Seeds – Saving Stories, Preserving Biodiversity
View recording.
2019
Benjamin Vogt, author and owner of Monarch Gardens
The New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future
2018
Brie Arthur, author and horticulturalist
The Foodscape Revolution
2017
Teri Dunn Chace, author and editor
Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods and Fruit
2016
Thomas Rainer, landscape architect and author
Planting Design in a Post-Wild World
2015
Doug Tallamy, author, conservationist, and professor of entomology and wildlife ecology, University of Delaware
Rick Darke, landscape design consultant, author, and photographer
The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden
2014
Andrea Wulf, New York Times bestselling author
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
2013
Peter Hatch, gardener, lecturer, and author
Thomas Jefferson, Gardener
2012
Catherine Zimmerman, filmmaker, landscape designer, and author
Meadowscaping: A Recipe for Restoring Native Habitat
2011
Gregg Tepper, horticulturist
The Sensory Appeal of Native Plants
2010
Michael McConkey, horticulturist
Native Edibles for an Edible Landscape
2009
Doug Tallamy, wildlife ecologist
Bringing Nature Home
2008
Emily Herring Wilson, author and biographer
The Love of Gardening—the Legacy of Elizabeth Lawrence
2007
Pam Beck, garden writer, designer, and photographer
Winter Interest in the Landscape
2006
William Cullina, New England Wildflower Society
Fifty (But Who’s Counting) Great Native Plants for the Southeast
2005
Darrel Morrison, landscape architect
Landscapes of Time and Place
2004
Rick Darke, landscape design consultant, author, and photographer
Learning from a Woodland Stream
2003
Neil Diboll, president, Prairie Nursery, Westfield, Wisconsin
Creating Meadows for Birds, Butterflies and People
2002
Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist, author, and conservationist
Planting the Future — Saving People by Saving Plants
2001
Janet Marinelli, director of publishing, Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Gardens that Act Like Nature: Garden Design in An Age of Extinction
2000
No lecture presented
1999
Rosemary Verey, plantswoman and author