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Cultivating Place: Adaptation & Innovation - Abigail Willis Of The Compendium Of Amazing Gardening

Photo used courtesy of Abigail Willis

Do you ever stop to wonder where your garden tools came from? The history behind plant and garden trends or techniques? Gardens and garden history are microsms of world history and every story illuminates the larger course of humanity. In her new book The Compendium of Amazing Gardening Innovations, Abigail Willis highlights 50 important gardening innovation. Host Jennifer Jewell also share her reflections on the innovations and adaptations put to work in states of emergency such as our region continues to face in the aftermath and long road to regeneration following the #CampFire 2018. Join us!

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The Compendium of Amazing Gardening Innovations

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Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.