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As creator of the national, award-winning public-radio program and international podcast, Cultivating Place, Jennifer Jewell's greatest passion is the empowerment of gardeners. She's built this platform based on the belief that gardens and gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for 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.

Jewell will share how this power of gardens and gardeners is exemplified in her past 28 years of interviewing people tending to plants in their places. She'll discuss the subjects of her books, guests on the podcast, and the featured gardeners in the Cultivating Place Foundation's upcoming documentary series, The Power of Gardeners, airing on PBS affiliate stations across the country in April 2027.

Explore how these impactful examples reshape how we define, practice, and value gardening, while revealing its capacity to improve our world environmentally, culturally, economically, and spiritually.

We offer Continuing Education credits (CEUs) for LA CES and APLD for successful completion of this lecture.

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Schedule:	Thursday, January 21, 2027
Times:	11:00am-12:00pm EST
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Meeting Date Start Time End Time Thursday, January 21, 2027 11:00am 12:00pm Meeting Date Start Time End Time Thursday, January 21, 2027 11:00am 12:00pm
Speaker:	Jennifer Jewell Jennifer Jewell Jennifer Jewell Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning weekly public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden (a co-production of North State Public Radio, which began airing in 2016), and Executive Director of the non-profit Cultivating Place Foundation (founded in 2024), whose purpose is to expand and elevate the way we as a culture think and talk about, as well as value, Gardeners and gardening. Jewell's greatest passion is 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. The author of three books: The Earth in Her Hands (2020, Timber Press), Under Western Skies (2021, Timber Press), and What We Sow (2023, Timber Press), Jewell and the Cultivating Place Foundation are currently in post-production on a documentary film series synthesizing the lessons learned from more than 10 years of Gardener-supporting interviews: The Power of Gardeners, will air on PBS affiliate stations starting in April of 2027. Jewell cultivates her place with her partner, John Whittlesey, in Butte County, CA.
Location:	NYBG, Ross Lecture Hall 2900 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458
Session Number:	273LEC809B

Cultivating Place: The Power of Gardeners Ticket
Thursday, January 21, 2027
11:00am-12:00pm EST
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