Women in Horticulture Symposium

Sunday, March 8, 2020 | 1 pm

Women in Horticulture Symposium at Blithewold
Featuring Horticulturist Gail Read and Author/Blogger Jennifer Jewell
Sunday, March 8
1 pm

Celebrate women in horticulture at Blithewold during Women’s History Month! Horticulturist Gail Read will share the history of women in the garden at Blithewold and then author/blogger Jennifer Jewell will discuss her new book The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, followed by a sale/signing.

Jennifer Jewell is the creator/host of Cultivating Place, an award-winning public radio program and 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 on women transforming horticulture around the world, is due out in early 2020 from Timber Press (take a look at the book here).

Refreshments will be served.

$25 Members | $30 Non-Members