Wangari Maathai

Wangari Maathai

Founder of the Green Belt Movement Today is the birthday of the Kenyan ecologist and first female Kenyan Ph.D. and professor Wangari Maathai (“One-Garry” – rhymes with starry – “Ma-TH-EYE”) Wangari was the founder of the Green Belt Movement. She fought for environmental protection and women’s empowerment by working with communities to plant “green belts”…

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April 1, 2020 The Daily Gardener Podcast Birthday, George Edward Post, Hugo Von Mohl, Peter cundall, Wangari Maathai, On the Wild Side by Keith Wiley, Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, and the Bernheim Arboretum

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Today we celebrate the one year anniversary of the show and the man who wrote a flora of the Middle East. We’ll learn about the German botanist who discovered mitosis and chloroplasts. We celebrate the 93rd birthday of an English-Australian gardener who learned to garden and survived during World War II. We’ll honor the tremendous…

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