October 5, 2022 Joachim Patinir, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, John Erskine, Liza Picard, Becoming a Gardener by Catie Marron, and Robin Lane Fox
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Today is National Pumpkin Seed Day — a celebration of one of gardening’s humblest yet most versatile gifts. From roasted snacks to ancient medicine, pumpkin seeds remind us how even the smallest harvest can hold lasting nourishment.
1524 Death of Joachim Patinir ("yo-ah-keem pah-tin-eer"), Flemish Northern Renaissance artist. Patinir’s sweeping landscapes often blended natural and spiritual worlds, painting nature not as a backdrop but as a living, breathing character in his work.
1873 Birth of Merritt Lyndon Fernald, American botanist. Fernald authored the widely used Gray’s Manual of Botany and devoted his career to cataloguing North America’s native flora, leaving gardeners and scientists alike with a clearer map of the continent’s green treasures.
1879 Birth of John Erskine, American educator, author, pianist, and composer. Though best remembered in literature and music, Erskine often wove themes of growth and cultivation into his teaching, suggesting that gardens and ideas both thrive when tended with care.
2017 Publication of Liza Picard’s book, Chaucer’s People: Everyday Lives in Medieval England. Picard’s work invites us into the gardens, kitchens, and fields of medieval life, showing how ordinary people lived with — and relied upon — the plants around them.
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1946 Birth of Robin Lane Fox, English classicist, ancient historian, and garden writer. For more than fifty years, Lane Fox has written his celebrated garden column in The Financial Times, blending horticultural advice with history, literature, and philosophy — a reminder that gardens are as much about culture as they are about cultivation.
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