Barrett Bookstore and Darien Library will welcome Jennifer Jewell and Wambui Ippolito for a conversation about Jewell’s book, “The Earth In Her Hands,” and Ippolito’s garden design work with international organizations, museums, botanical institutions, private and public parks to develop horticultural programming.
Jewell and Ippolito will also discuss Ippolito’s scholarly work with the Brooklyn Botanical Garden and Grounds for Sculpture (New Jersey). This discussion will help get you garden ready for Spring!
There will be an opportunity for Q and A. This is a free event, open to all.
WHERE: On Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/wambui-ippolito-
WHEN: Tuesday, April 6, 7 p.m.
About Earth In Her Hands
In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell — host of public radio’s award- winning program and podcast Cultivating Place — introduces 75 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 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 the author of The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants (Timber Press in 2020), and Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, May 2021).
Her 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, cultures and gardens that bring them together beautifully.
About Wambui Ippolito
Wambui Ippolito is a horticulturist, landscape designer and a graduate of the New York Botanical Garden’s School of Professional Horticulture. She designs and creates gardens and mini landscapes in New York and will be doing her first show garden at the PHS Philadelphia Flower Show in 2021.
She develops programming for museums, public gardens, and parks exploring the broader context of horticulture, focusing on the intersections between migration, design, history, culture and science.
She lectures both in the USA and internationally. In her former career, Wambui worked as a development & democracy consultant at international organizations both in the USA and around the world. Wambui is also the founder of the BIPOC Hort Group, a multicultural professional organization with membership from the USA, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.