What We Sow in Cultivating Our Places: A Talk with Jennifer Jewell

Name: What We Sow in Cultivating Our Places: A Talk with Jennifer Jewell
Start: 2024-10-19T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-19T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Palo Alto Art Center

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Palo Alto Art Center | Palo Alto, CA

The Art Center is proud to host a talk with Jennifer Jewell, award-winning host, author, and horticultural keynote speaker.
About this Event
Jennifer Jewell - TalkFriday, October 19, 2 p.m., Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium, FREE
In conjunction with Grow, the Palo Alto Art Center is honored to host award-winning podcast host, author, and horticulture keynote speakers, Jennifer Jewell for a free talk.

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.

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.