LA Guest Speaker: Lorraine Johnson "Unsettling the Garden: Reconciliation, Restoration and Landscape"

Landscape Architecture welcomes Guest Speaker, Lorraine Johnson.  Lorraine will be speaking on "Unsettling the Garden: Reconciliation, Restoration and Landscape"

In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action, author Lorraine Johnson embarked on a journey to consider how gardening traditions are connected with colonialism and how they might instead participate in reconciliation and relationship-building. This deeply personal talk explores one non-Indigenous gardener’s efforts to understand the garden—and the wider landscape—in the context of reconciliation.

Guest speaker Lorraine Johnson is the author of numerous books on habitat gardening with native plants, urban agriculture, and environmental issues, including 100 Easy-to-Grow Native Plants for Canadian Gardens; Tending the Earth: A Gardener’s Manifesto; City Farmer; and Green Future. The former (and founding) editor of Ground: Landscape Architect Quarterly, Lorraine is active in the community gardening movement, urban forest advocacy, and the effort to legalize backyard hens in Toronto. She is currently co-writing a book on native plants for native pollinators.

All our welcome to attend.

For more information please contact Prof. Karen Lanman.