Jennifer Jewell: What We Sow in Cultivating our Places

Onsite attendance to the Secchia Garden Lecture is complimentary, but registration is required. Registration for onsite attendance open February 1, online.

Please direct questions to Eve Boyer at eboyer@meijergardens.org or 616-975-3145.

We are excited to welcome Jennifer Jewell for the 2024 Secchia Garden Lecture.Jewell is an interviewer, writer, regular keynote speaker at national gardening conventions, and 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. In her presentation, Jewell will explore the philosophy of Cultivating Place and walk you through the power of gardens and gardeners as exemplified by the subjects of her podcast. Together, her books—The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, Under the Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast, and What We Sow: On the Personal Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds—and the inspiring Midwestern gardens and gardeners she has collaborated with throughout her career are blueprints, guiding us in ways we can all grow our world better: more beautiful and brave.

The Earth in Her Hands and What We Sow will be available for sale in the DeVos-Keeler Gift Shop. A book signing with the author will take place immediately following the lecture.  

Captioning and Spanish translation services will be provided. This lecture will also be livestreamed via Meijer Gardens’ YouTube channel and a recording will be available on YouTube for two weeks following the lecture.