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SPEAKERS
*NEW SPEAKERS ADDED! SEE LIST BELOW
Monday, Jan. 30 8:15 - 9:15 am
Kirk R. Brown delivers a first-person, biographical and historical presentation on the life of America’s first Botanist and Horticulturist: John Bartram.
John Bartram welcomes you with the horticultural history of America as he began it in Philadelphia and Penn’s Woods. His story starts in 1699 and moves up to the American Revolutionary War and 1776. He stands at the very beginning of the international world of plant discovery and identification. He introduced more than 200 species and 100 trees to the trade.
Close friends with Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington as well as many of the other founding fathers, Bartram is credited with starting the first public garden in America. His humor, his passion and his achievements will entertain, inspire and awe as he shares his hope for the future of the earth and the men who inhabit it.
Kirk's personification of John Bartram is electrifying. What Hal Holbrook is to Mark Twain, Kirk Brown is to John Bartram!
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 2:15 - 3:15 pm
Amy Stewart is the award-winning author of five books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world, including three New York Times bestsellers, Wicked Bugs, Wicked Plants and Flower Confidential.
Amy is a highly sought-after public speaker whose spirited lectures have inspired and entertained audiences at college campuses, conferences and garden shows, as well as botanical gardens, bookstores, and garden clubs nationwide.
She has appeared on hundreds of national and regional radio and television programs, including CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's Morning Edition, Fresh Air, and Good Morning America. She has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and every national garden magazine, including Fine Gardening, where she is a contributing editor.
Amy is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Horticulture Society's Book Award, and a California Horticultural Society Writer's Award. She lives in Eureka, California, with her husband Scott Brown. They own an antiquarian bookstore called Eureka Books and tend a flock of unruly hens in their backyard.
Invited Speakers
DOUGLAS L. AIRHART MIKE ANDRUCZYK STEVE BLACKSHIRE CHARLES BLAND ADRIA BORDAS KIRK BROWN RUTH BURCH MELISSA BUTLER YOLIMA CARR KAREN CARTER NAN CHASE JUANG-HORNG ‘JC’ CHONG ROBERT CHRISTIAN NEIL CLARK ERIC DAY JEFF DERR, PHD DEBBIE DILLION TRACY DISABATO-AUST ADAM DOWNING DOUG EDWARDS SUE ERHARDT BERNIE ERVEN LAURIE FOX, PHD SUSAN FRENCH RAY FUNKHOUSER KATHLEEN GAGAN STANTON GILL, PHD MIKE GOATLEY, PHD KIM GRAHAM JACK HIGGINS STACEY HIRVELA GARY JOHNSON, PHD LINDA MK JOHNSON, PHD BRIAN KNOX GERRY CENCI KRALL STEVE KRALL ELIZABETH FAIN LABOMBARD CHERYL LAJOIE |
MIKE LIKINS JOHNNY LINVILLE HERB MAHER SUSAN MARTIN BERT McCARTY, PHD BILL MCREYNOLDS KATY MCREYNOLDS CRAIG MORAN JOSEPH MURRAY DAN NORTMAN BRIAN O’NEIL JIM ORBAND LES PARKS CHAD PEEVY VICKIE PEPPER RICH POMERANTZ CHRISTOPHER RANGER, PHD LISA SANDERSON NICOLE SCHERMERHORN PETE SCHULTZ, PHD JEAN SCOTT BILL SKERRETT THOMAS SNODDY MARCIA STEFANI AMY STEWART ALEX SURCICA LYNNETTE SWANSON STEPHEN THOMAS MEGAN TIERNEY GARY UMPHLETT BRIAN UPCHURCH LILIANA VANDAM JEAN ANN VANKREVELEN SHIRLEY VAUGHN WAYNE VOLZ SHAWN WALKER ALEX WHITE CYNDI WYSKIEWICZ
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