Teaching

I’ve taught, lectured, and presented for all of my professional life, since I first started delivering educational talks in the high huts of New Hampshire’s White Mountains at age 20. In the three decades since, I’ve taught at primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities and spoken to groups large and small at seminars, conferences, and community organisations around world, from London to Washington, Ile-Ife to Rio de Janeiro, Maine to California. As a trained educator (EdM Harvard), I love to find creative ways to engage listeners, make them curious about things they may not have considered, encourage them to think differently, and bring them into conversations.

After some recent lecturing and writing I’ve done around Botanica, my book which will be published in spring 2017, I’ve agreed to be the garden history tutor at Higham Hall in Cumbria. I’m currently designing curricula on plant hunters in context and the cultural history of garden plants to deliver there. I’d love to offer these new lectures and courses elsewhere as well.