Daily Archives: September 21, 2024

Friday, September 27 – Sunday, September 29 – South Coast Harvest Festival

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Best of South Coast award winner The Cat and the Raven will kick off opening festivities on September 27 with a sound bowl demonstration in the show gardens. Professional Pumpkin Carver Richard Kaiser, one of the original carvers from Roger Williams Jack o’ Lantern Spectacular, will be doing live carving. Emily Deutra of Butterfly Effect Farm will discuss the importance of natives (they are all pollinator support plants!) A shiitake mushroom inoculation workshop will be held by Groundwork Farm, dedicated to regenerative, low till farming and offers seasonal workshops and interesting facets to farming. Enjoy an intimate view of owls, these secretive birds of prey. Mark and Marcia Wilson will dazzle you with their live owl presentation. All this will happen at the Westport Fairgrounds. Visit https://southcoastharvestfestival.com/home

Event Dates: September 27 – September 29

Event Times: Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday 10am-8pm, Sunday 10am-6pm

Thursday, October 3, 2:00 pm Eastern – The Garden Politic in Nineteenth-Century America, Online

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How did ordinary home gardeners in nineteenth-century America perceive their gardens as tied to the fates of the nation and the world? This rescheduled Garden Conservancy webinar event at 2 pm on October 3 explores how caring for plants brought these gardeners face-to-face with the greatest political issues of the day: colonialism, conquest, slavery, and democracy. It focuses on a selection of gardeners who were also famous writers—including Emily Dickinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Frederick Douglass—and shows how their homes and gardens were important places for broader environmental thinking. This talk draws on research from Mary Kuhn’s new book, The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America.

$5 for members of the Garden Conservancy
$15 for General Admission

A recording of this webinar will be sent to all registrants a few days after the event. We encourage you to register, even if you cannot attend the live webinar. Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/education/