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Tag: Mary Kuhn

  • Tuesday, January 13, 1:00 pm Eastern – The Influence of Migration on Community Food Growing, Gardens and Their Gardeners

    This talk arises from a small-scale study that took place in 2024 looking at the influence of migration on community food-growing gardens and their gardeners. The session will explore the wonderfully vibrant community gardens in north London that were the focus of this work looking at what is grown, who is growing it and the benefit growing together brings.

    As context, the London Parks and Gardens online talk on January 13 will offer a light-touch review of the social history of community food growing gardens and cover, briefly, migration to London over time. It will also highlight outcomes from academic research relating to community food-growing gardens and compare the findings with those of this study.

    Mary Kuhn is a Researcher for London Parks and Gardens. £8.00. Register at https://londongardenstrust.org/lecture-details/?event=ONLINE-Influence-of

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

    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/