Women in Horticulture

By: Kate Galer “The lesson I have thoroughly learnt and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a...

On Thursday, August 24th, the Delaware Center for Horticulture, collaborating with Women in Horticulture, hosted a Member’s Book Club led...

On May 6th of this year Women in Horticulture hosted its second Plant ID Meet Up. This time we chose Scott Arboretum as our Meet Up...

A small group of volunteers from Women in Horticulture joined Emily Conn for a workday at Wyck Historic House and Gardens. Emily started...

Emilia Zabegay is a greenhouse assistant at Morris Arboretum and does creative freelance horticulture for private clients. She is also on...

WinH: What is your current position? AB: I am the Assistant Curator of Living Collections at Ganna Walska Lotusland in Santa Barbara, CA....

For Women's History Month I wanted to highlight some of the women that make Women in Hort (WinH) a success. These are the unpaid heroes...

The month of March for horticulturists is a time of anticipation and getting ourselves ready for the bustle of springtime. It's also a...

Every year, PennState Extension puts on the Southeast Pennsylvania Green Industry Conference to provide industry professionals in the...

Even a drizzly December morning can't keep plant people from braving the weather to look at plants with their peers. A small group of us...

Women in Hort is thrilled to feature Jaime Frye of Newfields, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Jaime was nominated as a Featured Horticulturist...

This blog about gardener, civil rights activist, and poet Anne Spencer invites you to dig deeper into her life and find out more about...

Founded in 1911, the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women (PSHW) was one of the first schools of its kind in the nation. Its...

Jasmine Thompson grew up in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia. She spent two years working in Northern California with two...

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...

Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977) was born into a sharecropping family in Mississippi and become a leader in civil rights. She established a...

Summer Badawi is a Minneapolis-based plantswoman, designer and educator with a particular passion for farming, food, and flowers. She has...

On Sunday, June 27th WinH members got together for the first time in over a year to celebrate WinH's 5 year anniversary! We gathered at...

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...

I met Lindsey Muscavitch on one of our first Zoom calls for the newly formed Women in Hort Chicago group. When she mentioned her...