Event Description
Please Note:
Jennifer Jewell’s Author Talk & Book Signing have been rescheduled for October 27 & 28, 2020. This is due to ongoing monitoring of COVID-19 and to ensure the health and safety of Garden guests, staff, and volunteers. For the Garden’s latest statement, click here.
Thank you for your understanding.
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You are invited to join Jennifer Jewell, creator and host of the winning public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place, for a fun evening as she discusses her new book, The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants.
Jewell explores and celebrates how the plant world is improved by greater representation of women generally but also by diversity amongst those women – chronicling 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 impact and responsibility, in large part due to women’s contributions.
Joining the conversation will be Donna McGinnis, President & CEO of Naples Botanical Garden since 2017. Together they will examine the role of women in the botanical garden industry, the rise of women executives heading U.S. botanic gardens, and the evolution of the Garden’s own Horticulture staff with its growing cadre of women gardeners.
Date and RSVP Information
Date: March 30, 2020, 5:30-7:30pm
Doors open: 5:30pm
Program begins: 6:00pm
Location: Kapnick Hall (next to Fogg Café)
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Can’t make it? Jewell will be at the Garden on March 31, 10am-12pm for an additional book signing at the Berger Shop in the Garden.
The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants will be available for purchase in the Berger Shop in the Garden.
About the Author
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 women transforming horticulture around the world, is due out in early 2020 from Timber Press.
