This was amazing and energizing!

Last month I was honored to be a part of a panel discussion entitled: Women at Work: Making a Living While Following Your Plant Passion, with author Jennifer Jewell and three of the 75 women profiled in her new book, “The Earth in Her Hands,” from Timber Press.

Our lively and challenging conversation took place at the Northwest Flower & Garden Festival, here in Seattle. Not only was I thrilled to share the stage with these creative, smart, and hardworking women, I’m grateful that our conversation was captured by Debra Prinzing and aired March 4th on her Slow Flowers podcast.

If you’ve ever dreamt of a life in horticulture, flowers or the garden, listen in for an honest, revealing, sometimes hard, always affirming look at how we four are making a life/living following our passion for plants. How we juggle family and financial responsibilities, carve out time to create, and keep going in the face of a constantly shifting life circumstances. .

A little backstory; there’s always a backstory:

Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the public radio program (and podcast) Cultivating Place. The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, from Timber Press, is her first book.

Christin Geall is a gardener, writer, teacher and floral designer who lives on Vancouver Island. Her new book, Cultivated: Elements of Floral Style will be published at the end of March by Princeton Architectural Press.

Debra Prinzing is a Seattle-based writer, speaker and leading advocate for American-grown flowers. Among her many (many) projects. Debra produces the Slow Flowers Podcast with a new episode dropping each Wednesday. Here are the notes from this episode.

And if you’re intrigued by what you hear, Jennifer and I will be joining Debra and other smart women at the 2020 Slow Flowers Summit at Filoli, in the San Francisco Bay area, June 28-29. Book your ticket today.