On April 16, SUNY Ulster will host “The Art of the Seed,” a lecture by Ken Greene. The lecture will be held at 2:00 p.m. in the College Lounge on the Stone Ridge Campus, presented as part of the Elizabeth Gross Lecture Series, sponsored by the Ulster Garden Club and the Ulster Community College Foundation, Inc. This event is free and open to the public.
The presentation showcases a timeline of seed heritage up to the modern seed industry through elegant and humorous images from the Hudson Valley Seed Company’s collection of antique seed catalogs and contemporary seed pack art. Attendees can listen to a selection of seed stories and discover how seeds connect us to food, butterflies, history, good soil, our ancestors, and each other, as well as discover the history of seed diversity and the modern importance of ethical seed stewardship.
Ken Greene is founder of the first seed library in the country, a project he germinated in Gardiner, NY. Today, Greene helms the Hudson Valley Seed Co., a national seed company and regional seed farm devoted to ethically producing seed for home gardeners and farmers and celebrating seeds through art. Greene is on the board of directors for the Organic Seed Alliance and is co-director of Seedshed, a non-profit organization focused on growing regional and cultural seed communities through seed literacy and seed justice programs. Greene’s efforts have been profiled in New Yorker Magazine, Washington Post, Martha Stewart Living, Vogue, New York Times, Heirloom Gardener Magazine, and NPR. He has given presentations for diverse groups including the Northeast Organic Farming Association, Culinary Institute of America, Seed Savers Exchange, and many more.
The Elizabeth Gross Lecture Series is the annual horticultural series presenting expert lecturers in the fields of horticulture, floriculture, landscape design, forestry, city planning, land management, botany, conservation, and environmental studies. The series is made possible through a bequest received from long-standing garden club member and Kingston resident Mrs. Elizabeth Terry Gross and the Ulster Garden Club.
The Ulster Community College Foundation, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation that provides enhanced educational and cultural opportunities at SUNY Ulster. Fundraising initiatives support scholarships, arts and culture, technology, and innovation in academic programs.
RSVP by April 10 at (845) 688-6042 or for more information on this event.
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