Episode 805 · April 5, 2024
805: Jennifer Jewell on the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds
Empowering conversations about the power and politics of seeds.
In this episode
We chat with Jennifer Jewell on her journey discovering the significance of seeds. She shared "that my tiny life will end and I will have spent a lot of hot air talking to gardeners, but the seeds are gonna survive. Like we've messed up a lot, but the seeds are still there. And the incredible number of seed keeping humans on the ground everywhere, they are doing great work." Become an Urban Farm Patron and listen to more than 850 episodes of the Urban Farm Podcast without ads. Click here to gain access to the entire library.
Our Guest
Jennifer is the host of the national award-winning weekly public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden. She is an author and her third book is called What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds.
Jennifer’s greatest passion is elevating the way we think and talk about gardening, the empowerment of gardeners, and the possibility inherent in the intersection between places, environments, cultures, individuals, and the gardens that bring them together beautifully – for the better of all the lives on this generous planet.
She lives and cultivates her place in interior Northern California with her partner, plantsman John Whittlesey.
Jennifer's Book Recommendation
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Jennifer's Book
What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds
How to reach Jennifer
Instagram - Cultivating_Place
Website - cultivatingplace.com
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