Alicia Shulman
Foresting Philly: Jasmine Thompson
Jasmine Thompson grew up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. She spent two years working in Northern California with two...
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Kate Galer
- Feb 10, 2022
- 11 min
Called to the Ministry and to the Garden: Rev. Carolyn Cavaness
Women in Horticulture’s Kate Galer sat down with Rev. Carolyn Cavaness on a cold January evening to find out more about her and the...
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Alicia Shulman
- Jan 31, 2022
- 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...
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Laura Cruz
- Jan 16, 2022
- 8 min
Ladyfern Flowers: Summer Badawi
Summer Badawi is a Minneapolis-based plantswoman, designer and educator with a particular passion for farming, food, and flowers. She has...
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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...
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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...
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Maddie Perzel
- Apr 29, 2020
- 2 min
Online Book Club Discussion: Silent Spring
In these new COVID-19 times, we had to pivot along with the rest of the world to find a creative way to continue programming otherwise...
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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...
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Julie Bare
- Feb 20, 2020
- 5 min
Financial Planning with Gerry O'Neill
Financial planning isn't everyone's idea of a fun Saturday afternoon but a little planning now can insure that you're able to have lots...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Julie Bare
- Oct 6, 2019
- 2 min
WinH on the Road Part 2: Bamboo Brook
When we last left off the Women in Hort crew had just finished lunch and was venturing out through meadows, along streams and up hills to...
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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...
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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...
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Julie Bare
- Aug 21, 2019
- 6 min
WinH on the Road Part 1: Willowwood Arboretum
On Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 Women in Hort members took their first ever road trip to the fabulous Willowwood Arboretum and neighboring...
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Julie Bare
- Jul 30, 2019
- 1 min
Garden Grown Volunteer Event at Tyler Arboretum
Women in Horticulture is made up of so many knowledgeable women from all walks of the horticulture industry. One of my favorite parts of...
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Lucy Dinsmore
- Jul 30, 2019
- 6 min
The First Public Gardens Day for Horticultural Professionals
On one of the hottest days of the year, Women in Horticulture hosted the first Public Gardens Day for Horticultural Professionals. This...
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Julie Bare
- Jun 16, 2019
- 3 min
Summer Celebration at Linwood Park
Our Summer Celebration, hosted by Friends of Linwood Park in Ardmore, PA on Saturday, June 8th, was certainly a cause for celebration!...
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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...
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