The Earth in her Hands with Jennifer Jewell

7 Fair Street,Nantucket MA 02554

15 July, 2021

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$125 After June 30: $150 Jennifer Jewell is the author of the acclaimed book The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants. In her talk "The Earth in Her Hands," Jewell, who is also the creator/host of the award-winning public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place, introduces us to 75 inspiring women who are making important contributions from botany to floral design, landscape architecture to farming, and herbalism to food justice. Rich with personal stories and insights, these portraits reveal a devotion that transcends age, locale, and background, reminding us of the profound role of growing things in our world and our lives. Jewell’s 1-hour talk will be followed by a book signing. About The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants: Focusing in a wholly unique way on how horticulture intersects with our every day world and on women whose work has enriched and expanded these intersections in the last 25 years, The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants explores and celebrates how the plant world is improved by not only greater representation of women generally but also by diversity amongst those women. It chronicles how working in the world of plants is a more viable and creative career path for women than ever before and how the plant-work world is demonstrating greater social and environmental responsibility, in large part due to women’s contributions. Walking through profiles of women doing current and innovative work in all fields horticultural – botany, environmental science, landscape design and architecture, floriculture, agriculture, social justice, plant seeking and breeding, seed science, gardening, garden writing and garden photography, public garden administration, research, and public policy – we see how they often represent larger issues or shifts in our world. The work of these women illustrates how the many challenges of our world - environmental, economic, cultural/societal, individual - can and are being met through cultivating an interdependence with plants. The group of 75 includes representatives from the United States, England, Ireland, Wales, Canada, Australia, India, and Japan. These paradigm-shifting women range beautifully across race, ethnicity, socio-economic and religious backgrounds, sexual orientation, and age - in a way that transcends preconceived notions of what horticulture/gardening are and what plantspeople/gardeners look like. About Jennifer: Jennifer Jewell is the creator/host of Cultivating Place, an award-winning public radio program & podcast on natural history and the human impulse to garden. Her first book, The Earth In Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, centering women transforming horticulture around the world, is due out in early 2020 from Timber Press. This event is kindly hosted by: