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Tag: Beronda Montgomery

  • Tuesday, May 19, 6:30 pm – When Trees Testify

    Join The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, The Arnold Arboretum, and plant biologist and author Beronda Montgomery for a discussion on May 19 at 6:30pm of her new book, When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy. Taking place at Hunnewell Hall at the Arnold Arboretum, Montgomery explores the way that eight trees and shrubs testify to the experience of black Americans and takes us through black American history with trees and shrubs as our guides. Register here www.arboretum.harvard.edu/event/when-trees-testify-by-beronda-montgomery/

  • Thursday, September 8, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Lessons From Plants, Online

    Join Dr. Beronda Montgomery and the Native Plant Trust on September 8 at 6 pm Eastern for an engaging virtual discussion about her recent, acclaimed book, Lesson from Plants. Lessons from Plants enters into the depth of botanic experience and shows how we might improve human society by better appreciating not just what plants give us but also how they achieve their own purposes. What would it mean to learn from these organisms, to become more aware of our environments and to adapt to our own worlds by calling on perception and awareness? Montgomery’s meditative study puts before us a question with the power to reframe the way we live: What would a plant do? $15 for Native Plant Trust members, $18 for nonmembers.

  • Wednesday, February 23, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Lessons from Plants, Online

    Plants are essential to humans and the environment: they provide food, absorb carbon dioxide, produce oxygen,serve multiple ecosystem functions, and beautify landscapes. In Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021) Beronda Montgomery, MSU Foundation Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Microbiology & Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University invites us to appreciate our interdependence with plants and the many lessons that can be gained from a better understanding of the ways in which plants grow, adapt, and thrive. In this February 23rd conversation with Brenda Tindal, Executive Director, Harvard Museum of Science & Culture at 6 pm, she will address what plants can teach us about relating to one another, building diverse communities and being resilient.

    Presented by the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. The event is free. Advance registration required.