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    Foresting Philly: Jasmine Thompson
    Alicia Shulman
    • Feb 28
    • 6 min

    Foresting Philly: Jasmine Thompson

    Jasmine Thompson grew up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. She spent two years working in Northern California with two organizations, Community Food Council of Del Norte County and the Adjacent Tribal Lands. There, she helped build food forests for the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation and the Yurok Tribes. She learned about agricultural justice, pursuing an equitable balance of power within the agricultural system, per the Agricultural Justice Project. When Jasmine moved b
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    Fannie Lou Hamer: Civil Rights Activist and Founder of the Freedom Farm Cooperative
    Alicia Shulman
    • Jan 31
    • 5 min

    Fannie Lou Hamer: Civil Rights Activist and Founder of the Freedom Farm Cooperative

    Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977) was born into a sharecropping family in Mississippi and become a leader in civil rights. She established a cooperative farm to provide economic support to her community. Fannie Lou Hamer was born to a family of sharecroppers in 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi. She began picking cotton with her family at age 6. She was able to attend school sporadically and learned to read and write, but she began working full time by age 12. After marryin
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    Carrie Steele Logan
    Julicia James
    • Apr 22, 2021
    • 3 min

    Carrie Steele Logan

    Although she was born into slavery in Georgia in 1829, Carrie Steele was one of the first black landowners in Atlanta and left behind a legacy that forever changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. She is an unsung hero in the horticulture world. Steele moved to Atlanta, Georgia after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Executive Order of 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation. We do not know much about Steele’s early years, apart from the fact that she was abandone
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    Lindsey Muscavitch: One Random Botany Class and the Rest is History
    Ayse Pogue
    • Feb 10, 2021
    • 4 min

    Lindsey Muscavitch: One Random Botany Class and the Rest is History

    I met Lindsey Muscavitch on one of our first Zoom calls for the newly formed Women in Hort Chicago group. When she mentioned her connection to horticulture as a plant buyer at Lurvey's Home and Garden in Des Plaines, Illinois, specializing in seasonal color product lines for annuals, veggies, and outside tropicals, I thought we all should know more about this career. Lindsey’s passion for plants and her approach to her work she calls "behind the scenes" clearly show a stron
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    Professional Show and Tell: Go To Garden Gear
    Julie Bare
    • Sep 9, 2020
    • 9 min

    Professional Show and Tell: Go To Garden Gear

    On Sunday, July 12th, 2020 Women in Horticulture held our first virtual Professional Show and Tell! Professional Show and Tells are a great place for presenters to test out a new idea, spark conversation, and share their stories. These are my favorite type of WinH events. It is incredible to be part of a community of people who share their knowledge so freely. We had originally planned to hold this event in person but we went with a virtual platform because of the coronavirus
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    Jenna Bachman: For the Love of Plants
    Martha Keen
    • Mar 13, 2020
    • 3 min

    Jenna Bachman: For the Love of Plants

    Jenna Bachman is a Philadelphia-based horticulturist who currently works at Andalusia Historic House and Gardens, a sprawling landscape dating back more than 200 years and located immediately adjacent to the Delaware River. Previously, she was a Garden Design Lead at Terrain, where she worked directly with clients to implement gardens and container displays as well as the occasional floral arrangement for events. Jenna's career in horticulture developed from her keen sense of
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    Sunny Sarah Snow
    Martha Keen
    • Feb 16, 2020
    • 4 min

    Sunny Sarah Snow

    Sarah Snow is a professional gardener with a wealth of unique experiences in horticulture spanning the Eastern seaboard. After graduating with a BS in Geology from Florida State University in Tallahassee, she became an NYC Civic Corps/Americorps member working at the Gowanus Canal Conservancy in Brooklyn, NY as their gardens and compost coordinator in the early stages of what is now a robust nonprofit environmental stewardship organization. After spending several seasons as
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    Featured Horticulturists: 2019 in Review
    Martha Keen
    • Jan 10, 2020
    • 2 min

    Featured Horticulturists: 2019 in Review

    To all of our readers, Happy New Year! Thank you for following along, commenting, and sharing our Featured Horticulturist profiles in 2019. We strove to represent a broad spectrum of expertise, region, education, background, and passion from a set of women at varying points in their lives and careers. And on behalf of our interviewers and editors, thank you to all of the Featured Horticulturists who took the time to share their insights and reflections about being a woman in
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    Mae Lin Plummer & the                                                 Laughing Garden Philosophy
    Martha Keen
    • Dec 6, 2019
    • 6 min

    Mae Lin Plummer & the Laughing Garden Philosophy

    Mae Lin Plummer had an 18-year corporate career as a project manager until one weekend-long short course in botany upended her life as she knew it. In the interview that follows, Mae Lin shares a bit about her courageous, rapid, and convincingly joyful career transition out of the financial industry and into horticulture. She took steps to further her education and volunteer, in addition to founding a garden design practice called The Laughing Garden, fueled by the same spark
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    Living the American Dream:                        Sandra Lopez Cortez
    Martha Keen
    • Nov 8, 2019
    • 8 min

    Living the American Dream: Sandra Lopez Cortez

    A glimpse into a day in the life of Sandra Lopez Cortez would show her at times working her full time job, juggling several volunteer commitments, attending college courses, and parenting a growing family. It's owing to her ambition, endurance, and optimism that Sandra has developed so much personally and professionally throughout the course of her life, replete with huge cultural shifts and milestones that include moving with her parents to the United States as a young teena
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    Shedding Light on Plant Records with     Cindy Newlander
    Martha Keen
    • Oct 4, 2019
    • 6 min

    Shedding Light on Plant Records with Cindy Newlander

    Cindy Newlander is the Associate Director of Horticulture at Denver Botanic Gardens. Since 2002, she has led the Plant Records team and played a key role in developing the Gardens Navigator website, which makes the information DBG collects available and searchable to to the public in the form of photos, maps, labels and a database that documents the extensive living collection. She is a co-author of the Timber Press field guide, "Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountain Region" that
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    Professional Show & Tell: Steal This Idea!
    Julie Bare
    • Oct 1, 2019
    • 10 min

    Professional Show & Tell: Steal This Idea!

    Written by Kate Galer, WinH Program Director Photographs by Kate Galer and Julie Bare On Friday evening, September 20th, a group gathered at the Penn State Center at 675 Sansom Street to share ideas, practices, and knowledge used in the horticulture world. After finding the small door on a small block of Sansom Street near Jeweler’s Row, we were met by Penn State’s Tommy McCann and Dori Cross. Tommy is the Horticulture Extension Educator for Philadelphia and throughout the
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    Catching up with Hortiventurer Maggie Tran
    Martha Keen
    • Jul 12, 2019
    • 7 min

    Catching up with Hortiventurer Maggie Tran

    I was a fan and reader of Maggie Tran's reflections before I had ever actually met her. Over the years, she's kept several blogs chronicling her experiences as a gardener, which I would usually happen upon when googling something specific but obscure (for instance, training rose canes into globe shapes, a technique used at Sissinghurst). Her writing is simultaneously contemplative and technical. I'd so often have the feeling as a reader and fellow gardener that Maggie actuall
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    Quill Teal-Sullivan: Preserving Gardens as Living Artifacts of Human Endeavors
    Julie Bare
    • Jun 7, 2019
    • 7 min

    Quill Teal-Sullivan: Preserving Gardens as Living Artifacts of Human Endeavors

    After reading A Woman’s Hardy Garden by Helena Rutherfurd Ely for the WinH inaugural book club meeting, we thought it was more than appropriate to interview Quill Teal-Sullivan as our Featured Horticulturists for June. Quill is the Director of Historic Preservation at Dunn Gardens in Seattle, WA but prior to that she was the Garden Manager and Curator at Meadowburn Farm (Ely's historic garden) in Warwick, NJ. She holds a MS in Public Horticulture from University of Delaware a
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    Shofuso After Hours
    Kate Galer
    • Jun 4, 2019
    • 2 min

    Shofuso After Hours

    On Monday May 20th, Women in Horticulture joined Kim Andrews, Executive Director of Shofuso Japanese House and Garden and the Japan Society of America, for an After Hours Tour of Shofuso. Before the tour of the garden and house, some of us joined Kim for a short walk and talk around the Centennial Arboretum. As the group sat at the Alexander Stirling Calder Sundial and viewed the magnificent allée of cherry trees, Kim detailed the history of the area before, during, and afte
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    Well-Rooted: Sarah Dominsky is Right Where She Belongs
    Martha Keen
    • May 6, 2019
    • 9 min

    Well-Rooted: Sarah Dominsky is Right Where She Belongs

    Sarah Dominsky has put down roots in central Virginia after spending the better part of the last decade bouncing between the East and West coasts training and practicing in the complementary and sometimes competing fields of landscape architecture and horticulture. When she graduated with a BLA at the peak of the Great Recession in 2009, job prospects were slim and the market had stalled, which is what led her to take a series of internships, including a long run at the Golde
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    2nd Annual Celebration of WinH
    Julie Bare
    • Apr 28, 2019
    • 7 min

    2nd Annual Celebration of WinH

    The 2nd Annual Celebration of Women in Horticulture took place on Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 at the Ambler Arboretum of Temple University. Women in Hort members gathered at the Hilda Justice building on campus to enjoy each others company, wonderful artifacts from the PA School of Horticulture for Women, and a lovely spread of food before heading to the lecture by Dr. Chantel White. This annual celebration has become a great way to kick off the spring season (or what I consi
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    Abra Lee: On Horticulture, Fashion, Leadership and Mentorship
    Lucy Dinsmore
    • Apr 5, 2019
    • 7 min

    Abra Lee: On Horticulture, Fashion, Leadership and Mentorship

    Abra Lee is doing something for the first time - she's freelancing. She starts everyday by writing, waking at 4:00am because she knows she'll be undisturbed until 6:30am. Even when she's not inspired, she still writes at least 3 pages, something she learned from the book The Artist’s Way. She's been working in the green industry for 18 years, both in the public and private sectors. Before transitioning to her new freelance lifestyle, Abra served as an Extension Agent with the
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    She Put Her Head Down and Persevered
    Lucy Dinsmore
    • Mar 22, 2019
    • 7 min

    She Put Her Head Down and Persevered

    My great-grandmother was a woman who persevered in the face of family tragedy and challenging economic circumstances. Frances Vaughan Gardiner Finletter was born on September 16, 1892, and became one of the first women to be accepted into membership in the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). She managed her own private practice, and was active in the profession for 55 years. Widely respected, when she was in her early 80s, she was named chairman of an at-large co
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    Always Becoming: Lucy Dinsmore's Path to Horticulture
    Martha Keen
    • Mar 1, 2019
    • 5 min

    Always Becoming: Lucy Dinsmore's Path to Horticulture

    For March Featured Horticulturist, we're so delighted to introduce one of our own, Lucy Dinsmore. Lucy has been involved with Women In Horticulture since its early days, joining in Fall 2017 to spearhead social meet ups in the Delaware Valley where the group was founded, and quickly becoming a core organizer. She was first drawn to how approachable the scene within WinH is, and in many respects we have Lucy to thank for cultivating an atmosphere that is welcoming to newcomers
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