Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation, In a unique retelling of the creation of America, award-winning historian Andrea Wulf discusses how plants, politics, and personalities intertwined as never before. This beautifully illustrated talk looks at the lives of the founding fathers and how their attitude toward plants, gardens, nature, and agriculture shaped our nation. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison regarded themselves foremost as farmers and plantsmen. For them, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. This program is eligible for 2.0 Rutgers Master Gardener CEU’s. $45 per person