The Many Layers of Invitation our Gardens Offer

In a world and time of colliding and competing urgencies – environmental, social, economic, physical and spiritual – it can often feel as though Gardening is perhaps superfluous – not important enough, and certainly not enough to solve the world’s problems. And yet, as Jennifer Jewell, creator and host of public radio’s Cultivating Place, Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden will share through her years of experience interviewing gardeners and growers, environmentalists, artist’s and leading thinkers, our gardens – personal gardens & public gardens – are in fact inviting us at every turn to keep engaging, to get started there and keep going as important parts of the ultimate solutions to these crises and callings in our world. Through examples from her nationally syndicated program as well as illustrations and stories from each of her award winning books: The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, and Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, Jewell will walk us (especially as public facing professional gardeners or garden volunteers) through how at all levels, our gardens are inviting us to embrace our power, agency, and joy in growing the world better – in growing the world we want to live in and pass on to future gardeners.

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 award-winning 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 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.

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