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Annual Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lecture: What We Sow in Cultivating Our Places – How a Garden Culture of Care Grows Places and Their People
November 3 @ 5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
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with Jennifer Jewell, Author, Writer and Producer, Creator of Cultivating Place
Date: Sunday, November 3, 2024
Time: 5:30 – 6:45 PM ET, followed by a reception and book-signing. Copies of Jennifer’s books will be available for purchase.
Location: Hybrid – Virtual and In-person attendance options
Fee: Free; preregistration required
In her presentation, Jennifer Jewell will explore the philosophy of Cultivating Place, her national, award winning-public radio program and international podcast, based on the belief that gardens/gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging as climate change, habitat loss, cultural polarization, and individual and communal health and being.
She will walk audiences through how this power of gardens and gardeners is exemplified in not only her weekly program, but very specifically in her the subjects of her three books: the horticultural women in leadership roles in the award-wining The Earth in Her Hands (2020); the beautiful and innovative place-based gardens that celebrate western landscapes in?Under Western Skies; Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (2021) – with amazing photography by Caitlin Atkinson; and, finally in What We Sow, On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds (2023).
All together, these stories, garden and gardener inspirations tending to a culture of care are blue-prints guiding us in ways we can all grow our world better: more beautiful and brave.
