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Fiesta Place Community Garden Seed Swap & Sip
2025-02-15 11:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | City of District Heights Senior Ct, 2000 Marbury Drive, District Heights, MD, 20747, United States
The last Saturday in January is National Seed Swap Day. The ritual of swapping and sharing seeds happens anytime one is ready to grow. Join the Fiesta Place Community Garden for our first Seed Swap and Sip. We are celebrating the garden as we invite our community to bring clean small tools, seeds no more than two years old and correctly labeled, books, seed catalogs, and inspirational garden magazines to share. We have a seed collection and would love to share them with you. We have invited the Prince Georges Cunty Master Gardeners to share some knowledge on gardening basics and more. We have invited Brittany McCraw, Project Green Foot, to share what she has done as she creates a global green community.
Join us for a hot cup of tea or hot cocoa, door prizes, and seed swapping! Please bring a reusable water container or mug, as a way of supporting a sustainable event.
Hope to see you there!
Teri

Seattle On My Mind! Northwest Flower Show
2025-02-19 - 2025-02-23 | Seattle Convention Center, 705 Pike Street, Seattle, WA, 98101, United States
The Northwest Flower Show is held every year at the end of February. I have often wondered how this show would compare to the Philadelphia Flower Show on the East Coast. This year, I will find out. I am speaking!!! Not once, but twice at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show.
I will share my newly released book, Black Flora – Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard (Timber Press) on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 10:45
At 1:15, join me and Kathy Jentz as we share our book, The Urban Garden – 101 Ways to Grow Food and Beauty in the City (Quarto)
We will be signing books immediately after our sessions. We would love to chat with you and sign your book.
Will I see you there? Here is a link for a discounted ticket: https://bit.ly/25NWFG_JoinMe Discount valid through February 18th!

NYBG - BLACK FLORA: Revased, Revisited, and Revised
2025-02-27 11:00 - 12:00 | New York Botanic Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
NYBG, also known as the New York Botanic Garden is known for celebrating and inspiring horticulture. Through floral displays, art, and its programming, NYBG brings to the forefront the many different voices in horticulture and floriculture. Teri Speight, author of Black Flora: Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard (Timber Press) will share how the stories found within the pages of this book have been revased, revisited, and revised. Like the garden, the world of floriculture is ever-evolving.
This book is long overdue and should inspire and encourage anyone who reads it.

Minnesota Nursery Landscape - Shade Tree Short Course
2025-03-11 12:30 - 2025-03-12 13:30 | Bethel University, 3900 Bethel Dr, ST Paul, Minnesota, 55112, United States
The Shade Tree Short Course offers a variety of speakers with a broad range of topics. Teri will be sharing a talk, Growing Community Through Gardening. This is a topic very close to Teri’s heart. From her many roles as a Founding Farmer of the Eitt CSA, Stafford County, Virginia to the current co-chair of Fiesta Place Community Garden in Maryland, growing a community with hands in the earth has been a huge part of her journey.
Teri will share a few experiences from her work with the National Wildlife Federation with gardens in Baltimore to the current work in her community in District Heights, Maryland to connect all who show interest in growing and building community.

Black Flora - Bloom into Spring
2025-03-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Gwinnett County Library, 1001 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville, GA, 30046, United States
Black Flora – Inspiring Profiles of Floriculture’s New Vanguard (Timber Press) is a book that shares the journey of the new faces in floriculture today. Our hands have played a role in agriculture including floriculture from flower farming to designing and beyond. Abra Lee, Conquer the Soil, will join Teri as they discuss how our presence is important and how our journey continues. It promises to be an enlightening and engaging conversation.
Won’t you join us?

African American Legacy in gardening Symposium
2025-03-28 - 2025-03-29 | Hayti Heritage Center, 804 Old Fayetteville St, Durham, North Carolina, 27701
Join a gathering of African American voices in horticulture for a Symposium highlighting our gardening Legacy.
Teri will contribute to discussing Beyond Borders: The Ethono-Botanical and Horticultural Influence of Africans, African Americans, and Immigrants on the American Landscape. The weekend starts with a screening of Family Tree on Friday night. Saturday will feature three sessions – The Wisdom of Trees: Urban Forestry and Black Land Ownership in the Subaltern South, Beyond Borders: The Ethno-Botanical and Horticultural Influence of African Americans, African Americans and Immigrants on the American Landscape, and Centering African American Narrative Stories in Contemporary Environmental Literature and Media.
This is going to be a weekend of conversation and information to enlighten and inspire.

Annual Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lecture - North Carolina Botanic Garden
2025-07-05 08:00 - 17:00 | MD
Sunday, November 2, 2025
5:30 – 6:45 p.m. ET, followed by a reception and book signing in the Pegg Exhibit Hall at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Copies of Teri’s books will be available for purchase.

Community Gardens: Building Community by Gardening & Digging In the Dirt with Your Neighbors
2026-02-24 11:00 - 12:30 | Talbot County Free Library, Easton, Maryland, 100 W. Dover Street, Easton, MD, 20732, United States
Talbot County Garden Club Free Winter Lecture Series
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24 – 11 AM to 12:30 PM
Talbot County Free Library, Easton, MD
Learn about a stellar community garden model and what it takes to create a successful green space venture for a community.
Get practical tips on the following:

earth-friendly gardening practices that involve drought tolerant plants, small space gardens, shade gardens, and more.
Discover the treasure that African American gardeners have passed along in their appreciation for the life-sustaining gifts of the soil.
Expect to be inspired by Teresa’s visionary approach to gardening that reaches back to an ancestral love for the earth and forward to creative possibilities for every community!

As a passionate Community Gardener, Teri enjoys inspiring others to create community spaces which brings people together to celebrate diversity in community.

Wave Hill - Black Flora: Floriculture and -the Art of Living
2026-02-28 13:00 - 15:00 | MD
https://www.wavehill.org/calendar/black-flora-floriculture-and-the-art-of-living
