The Massachusetts Horticultural Society hosts a talk and book signing in early February which you won’t want to miss. Plantsman, author and designer of Bressingham Garden, Adrian Bloom, is coming to the Garden at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, on February 3, 2023. Learn about his career, projects including Bressingham Garden at Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and his new book, Foggy Bottom, which will be available for purchase and signing at the event! Coffee and Pastries included with registration.
9:30 – Check-in and enjoy coffee/pastries 10am – Adrian Bloom, in conversation with James Hearsum, MHS Executive Director 11am – Book Signing, purchase a new copy of Foggy Bottom and have it signed, before it’s released in the U.S.!
Chef and writer Klancy Miller worked by trial and error at a number of jobs in the food industry, eventually starting the magazine For the Culture. What she discovered researching and writing for the magazine were the extraordinary women of color — chefs, food stylists, mixologists, historians — who have paved the way and continue to. She honors those women in her new book, For the Culture: Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food. Join Miller and Food & Folklore founder Tamika Francis for a conversation about the book with special guests Elle Simone (chef, food stylist and on-screen test cook at America’s Test Kitchen) and Kyisha Davenport (GM and beverage director at Comfort Kitchen), who are featured in it.
Copies of the book will be available for purchase from our bookstore partner Frugal Books. Miller will sign copies and guests will enjoy a bite from the book following the conversation.
CitySpace Tickets – Register HERE Premiere: $25.00 (includes reserved seating in the front of the theater) General: $15.00 Student: $5.00
Ways To Save WBUR Members save $5.00 off tickets to this event. To apply the discount to your ticket purchase online, you’ll need to enter a promo code. You can get your code by emailing membership@wbur.org. This event is co-produced by Boston University Metropolitan College Programs in Food & Wine.
Join The Emerald Necklace Conservancy on Wednesday, November 8 at 6:00 pm EST with Dr. Ethan Carr for a talk on his new book, Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City (LALH 2023), which details the history of Franklin Park from the time of peak popularity to the current era of park revival.
This talk will be held in person in Rabb Hall at the Central Library in Copley Square. Following the talk, there will be time for audience Q&A, and the program will conclude at 7:00 pm with a book signing.
Dr. Carr’s forthcoming book, Boston’s Franklin Park: Olmsted, Recreation, and the Modern City (LALH 2023), documents the design and history of Frederick Law Olmsted’s most mature expression of urban park design. In this comprehensive study, Carr affirms Franklin Park as one of great works of nineteenth-century American art. Since the 1980s, historians have described Franklin Park as unfinished, obsolete, or a casualty of changing trends in public recreation. Carr disagrees, offering a persuasive argument that the park’s decline was not a consequence of its design but of a lack of stewardship on the part of the city, an example of institutionalized racism.
Ethan Carr, FASLA, is professor of landscape architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. An international authority on America’s public landscapes and the author of many books, he is lead editor of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Early Boston Years and coauthor of Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea (LALH 2022).
Join the Native Plant Trust and author Diane Wilson (Dakota) on October 28 for a conversation about her award-winning book The Seed Keeper. A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. Weaving together the voices of four indelible women, The Seed Keeper is a beautifully told story of reawakening, of remembering our original relationship to the seeds, and, through them, to our ancestors. The venue will be announced shortly. $15 for NPT members, $18 for nonmembers. Register HERE.
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Toast to the women who broke the mold of history. Learn the rich story of the critical role women played by merging style and substance into social power in the 19th century. During this in-person event on August 17 at the Boston Harbor Distillery, 12R Ericsson Street in Boston, you will learn about many powerful women and how they impacted our nation, all while getting to taste the next revolution of handcrafted American Spirits.
Together with the Massachusetts Historical Society, we will delve into remarkable stories about women in the early 1800s breaking barriers and their “parlor politics.” Catherine Allgor, President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, will share her extensive knowledge of the early development of political society and how women in political families were able to utilize their relationships unofficially in order to assist in the creation of the United States of America.
As you immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the era, Founder of Boston Harbor Distillery, Rhonda Kallman, will take you through Boston Harbor Distillery’s history and sip along with you through their handcrafted American Spirits. As a pioneering woman in the spirits industry, Rhonda has worked hard in this male-dominated industry and garnered great satisfaction from helping Boston Harbor Distillery grow and become a significant part of Boston’s history.
Catherine and Rhonda both are taking strides to break their own barriers just like the women of the 1800s and look forward in celebrating with you and GBH the intersection of Women’s History and the Future of Women in Boston.
Your Ticket Includes: – Tasting of 4 Boston Harbor Distillery Spirits – Education from Catherine Allgor and Rhonda Kallman – Opportunity to purchaseParlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Governmentand signing by Catherine Allgor
Boston Harbor Distillery hand crafted cocktails will be available for additional purchase.
This event will be hosted and moderated by GBH News, Tori Bedford and GBH’s Curiosity Desk, Edgar B. Herwick III. This event will begin at 7pm Eastern Standard Time.
Join Jane Hirschi, author of We Garden Together, for Porter Square Book’s July event, Be The Change! The talk will take place at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street in Cambridge, on July 30 at 3 pm. Autographed books will be available for purchase.
Kids don’t need a big backyard or outdoor space to learn about gardening and how plants grow. This introductory garden book, We Garden Together, is packed with photos of 3 to 6 year olds in action, features hands-on planting and growing activities that can be done in a small yard, classroom, or community garden. Written by the staff of City Sprouts, a leading educational organization in promoting urban gardening and equitable access to nature, each activity—from Sorting Seeds to Going on a Worm Hunt to Planting a Tasty Salad—encourages kids to roll up their sleeves and learn about seeds, planting, and gardening. Step-by-step photos and on-the-page discovery prompts, presented in a lively design, make it easy and inviting for kids everywhere to become plant lovers and nature explorers.
Jane Hirschi is the founding director of CitySprouts, a nationally recognized program that provides early science and nature education in collaboration with 20 public schools in the greater Boston area. She is passionate about making sure that all children have opportunities for hands-on science education in the garden and the chance to get to know the natural surroundings in their own neighborhood. A regular presenter at conferences regionally and nationally, Hirschi has been recognized as a Social Innovator by Root Cause Social Innovation Forum and is the author of Ripe for Change: Garden-Based Learning in Schools. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Two local children’s book authors, Lisa Varchol Perron and Renee Kurilla will join us for a day of reading on the farm on June 25. Both authors will read from their recently published books and there will be family-friendly activities. This is a fun event for children and families of all ages!. Wright-Locke Farm is located at 82 Ridge Street in Winchester.
We are partnering with Book Ends in Winchester, and copies of the authors’ books will be available for purchase and signing. Registration is open at www.WLFarm.org. This event will benefit the Forest Friends Preschool Sunflower Fund.
The Garden Conservancy recommends a new novel by Jane Delury, Hedge. Garden historian Maud Bentley packs up her daughters to spend a summer at a Hudson Valley estate, leaving her husband behind in California. An idyllic return to days in the sun restoring a 19th century garden takes an unexpected turn when Maud becomes entangled with her archeologist neighbor. Just as Maud’s life seems set on a new, exciting course, her eldest daughter reveals an explosive secret that drives the family back to Marin. The lies and passions of that summer continue to haunt Maud years later, as she restores the garden of one of San Francisco’s founders. Another unexpected encounter and a growing friendship—this time with the reclusive artist funding Maud’s project—resurrects old questions and patterns, bringing the past back to the surface and forever changing Maud’s life.
The author will give a talk and book signing at Newtonville Books on June 24 at 7 pm.
Curated Cuisine is a WBUR monthly series examining all things edible, from the chefs cooking the food to the writers reviewing the recipes. Meet the people shaping the food industry, both local and national and enjoy a post-show bite inspired by the conversation.
Hetty Lui McKinnon views food as a gateway to deeper understanding and connections to her family, friends and community. The Australian born author and chef once shied away from her Chinese ancestry but now, she embraces her heritage through food and cooking. McKinnon, a regular contributor to the New York Times, Bon Appetit and Epicurious, is a long time vegetarian who at an early age prepared and delivered salads via bicycle in her Sydney neighborhood. Her new book, Tenderheart: A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds, is at once a tribute to her immigrant father and Chinese family and also a celebration of food.
Join Tamika Francis, founder of Food & Folklore, for a conversation with McKinnon and a demonstration of her technique. Copies of Tenderheart will be available to purchase from our bookstore partner Brookline Booksmith. McKinnon will sign after the conversation and in-person attendees will enjoy a bite from the book.
Virtual tickets $5 per household. CitySpace (890 Commonwealth Avenue) tickets range from $25 (premiere seating), $15 (general seating), and $5 (Student.) Register HERE
French Blooms, the first book by Sandra Sigman, award-winning floral designer and owner of Les Fleurs in Andover, presents arranging flowers in the French style—bouquets that are chic and romantic.
As Sandra Sigman learned while living in Paris in her twenties, the French consider each floral arrangement a unique work of art filled with passion, movement, texture, and surprise. In French Blooms, Sigman shares the distinct design principles she learned from her favorite Parisian florist, and offers tutorials, with images and instructions for creating French-inspired arrangements for different areas of the home.
Projects include a mantle display in ironstone gravy boats, compote-style dining room arrangements, powder room posies and beribboned hand-tied bouquets. With chapters on choosing the right containers, and flower care and tools, along with lush photographs, many taken in Paris, Normandy and Provence, this book is both inspirational and practical. It’s also a love letter to France—from Parisian sophistication to the simple grace of provincial life.
The New England Botanical Garden at Tower Hill program on June 11 from 2 – 5 will include a talk and a demonstration, followed by a book-signing.
$15 Member Adult; $25 Adult (includes admission to the Garden) Register at www.nebg.org
