Master Gardeners of Shasta County invites the public to join them for a presentation by Jennifer Jewell at their March 10, 2022, monthly meeting, from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.
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. She is the author of The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants (Timber Press, 2020), and Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, May 2021). In late 2023, her third book, focusing on the importance of seed in our personal/cultural, garden, environmental, and economic lives, will 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.
Jennifer’s presentation for the Master Gardeners of Shasta County is entitled, “Knowing Our Place: A Garden Culture of Care in Under Western Skies.” She will explore the philosophy of Cultivating Place, her national 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 well-being. She will explore how this power of gardens and gardeners is exemplified in the beautiful and innovative place-based gardens that celebrate Western landscapes in her book, Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, 2021)—with amazing photography by Caitlin Atkinson.
The talk will be presented virtually, via Zoom. Folks can choose to attend in person, in Building 4000 on the Shasta College Farm, to watch on the screen there; or, they can contact Master Gardeners at mastergardener@ShastaCollege.edu to request a Zoom invitation. ~Master Gardeners of Shasta County
