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Join us for an evening with Jennifer Jewell, host of the national public radio program and international podcast Cultivating Place! Her newest book, What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds will also be available for purchase and signing.
In her presentation, Jennifer will explore the philosophy of Cultivating Place, 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 explore how this power of gardens and gardeners can be viewed through a lens of care: the care we recognize and accept from and for our gardens, in our roles as gardeners, and which we extend to the greater world through our gardening practices.
Jennifer will walk us through examples of this paradigm-shifting sense of care from Cultivating Place interviews and her books: the care of the horticultural women in leadership roles in the award-wining The Earth in Her Hands (2020), the care demonstrated by 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 the care we cultivate in What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds (2023). All together, these resources, inspirations and consciously cultivated gestures of care are blueprints guiding us in ways we can all grow our world better—and beautifully.
Thank you to our event sponsors: Turner Farm, University of Cincinnati, Federated Garden Club, Garden Club of Cincinnati, and media sponsor WVXU!
Cost: Free
Jennifer Jewell is the host of the national award-winning weekly public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden.
The author of The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants (Timber Press in 2020), and Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, May 2021), in late 2023, her third book, What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds, will also be published by Timber Press.
Jewell’s greatest passion is elevating the way we think and talk about gardening, the empowerment of gardeners, and the possibility inherent in the intersection between places, environments, cultures, individuals, and the gardens that bring them together beautifully – for the better of all the lives on this generous planet.
In 2023, Jewell was honored with the American Horticultural Society’s Great American Gardener B.Y. Morrison award for horticultural communication. Cultivating Place has several times been recognized by Garden Communicators International as Best On-Air Talent and Best Overall Broadcast Media.
In 2021, The Earth in Her Hands was honored by the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries with their Award for Excellence in Biography, and Under Western Skies was a Golden Poppy winner for the Glenn Goldman award from the California Alliance of Independent Booksellers. The members of CALIBA present The Golden Poppy Book Awards to recognize the most distinguished books written by writers and artists who make California their home.
Jewell regularly serves as a keynote speaker for horticultural organizations large and small across the country, including The Garden Conservancy, The American Public Gardens Association, The American Horticultural Society, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation/Monticello, The California Native Plant Society, The New York Botanical Garden, Miami University of Ohio, and the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
She lives and cultivates her place in interior Northern California with her partner, plantsman, John Whittlesey.