September 27, 2023
Episode 21:
What We Sow w/ Jennifer Jewell, Cultivating Place
What do seeds mean to you? In today’s episode we’re talking with Jennifer Jewell, host of the Cultivating Place podcast and author of the new book, What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds.
Episode Guest
Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Since 2016, she has written and hosted the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place. She is particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture. In her latest book, WHAT WE SOW, Jewell reveals the power of seeds in our world “for food, for medicine, for utility, for the vast interconnected web we include in the concept of biodiversity and planetary health, for beauty, and for culture.”
Learn more about Jennifer at https://www.cultivatingplace.
What do seeds mean to you? In today’s episode we’re talking with Jennifer Jewell, host of the Cultivating Place podcast and author of the new book, What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds.
We’ll be discussing Jennifer’s personal journey with seeds, the significant impact that seeds have on the world around us and why saving these precious seeds for future generations is more important now than ever before.
Jennifer is a garden writer, educator and host of an award-winning radio program and podcast. Her previous books include Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from The Rockies to the Pacific Coast and The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants.
Connect with Jennifer through her website and purchase her books everywhere that books are sold including:
Amazon or Bookshop
If you’re new to saving seeds or looking to learn more, check out my book Saving Our Seeds. It’ll guide you through harvesting and processing seeds from 43 different species!
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