The Earth in Her Hands, Jennifer Jewell
The Earth in Her Hands, Jennifer Jewell
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The Earth in Her Hands
75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants

Author: Jennifer Jewell

Narrator: Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/12/2021

Synopsis

In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell—host of public radio's award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place—introduces seventy-five inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground up. Profiled women include flower farmer Erin Benzakein; codirector of Soul Fire Farm Leah Penniman; plantswoman Flora Grubb; edible and cultural landscape designer Leslie Bennett; Caribbean-American writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid; soil scientist Elaine Ingham; landscape designer Ariella Chezar; floral designer Amy Merrick, and many more. Rich with personal stories and insights, Jewell's portraits reveal a devotion that transcends age, locale, and background, reminding us of the profound role of green growing things in our world—and our lives.

About Jennifer Jewell

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, a coproduction of North State Public Radio in Chico, California. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of a garden- and floral-designing mother and a wildlife biologist father. Jennifer has been writing about gardening professionally since 1998, and her work has appeared in Gardens Illustrated, House & Garden, Natural Home, Old House Journal, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, and Pacific Horticulture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Misti on December 06, 2019

As an avid listener to Cultivating Place and having collaborated with and interacted with Jennifer on several occasions, it was a delight to read this book! So many fascinating women---some I knew and others I didn't. Getting to be introduced to some of them here was lovely and I can't wait to read......more

Goodreads review by Laura on July 20, 2024

My son got me this for Mother's Day and it has been such a delight over the last few months to dip in and out of it, enjoying the profiles of women from around the world. In her introduction, Jewell states that she wants to focus on the diverse ways horticulture intersects with our everyday world. S......more

Goodreads review by Story Circle Book Reviews on July 29, 2020

For millennia, as Jennifer Jewell points out in the Introduction to The Earth in Her Hands, women's work with plants was not acknowledged or rewarded. Which did not make it any less important. Part of Jewell's aim in compiling this collection is to address the lack of recognition of women's work in......more

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