The Grace Farms Lecture | Robin Wall Kimmerer
Saturday, March 7, 2026, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A writer of “rare grace,” Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer offers powerful and poetic explorations of how human beings connect with nature and one another. She weaves together indigenous wisdom, science, and profound spiritual insight to reimagine our connection to the living world. Drawing from her background as both a botanist and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Kimmerer invites all of us to understand ecological systems with gratitude, mutual respect, and interconnectedness, allowing us to recognize the entire natural world as worthy of care.
About Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She lives in Syracuse, New York, where she is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
Schedule:
3 – 3:45 pm
Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer Delivers Grace Farms Lecture
3:45 – 4 pm
Tea & Coffee Break
4 – 5 pm
Responsive Music Performance by Canadian Cellist, Arlen Hlusko, Grace Farms Artist-in-Residence
Grace Farms Lectures
Grace Farms Lectures recognize visionary leaders who have profoundly elevated human flourishing throughout their lives and distinguished careers. For the past decade, Grace Farms has welcomed international thought leaders and artistic luminaries including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, as well as Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege. By bringing these transformative thinkers and creators together, Grace Farms continues to inspire meaningful dialogue and bold action toward a more just and peaceful world.
“This program is designed to be an epic Grace Farms experience, with music curated for each lecture by artist-in-residence, Arlen Hlusko, and a reception. An optional workshop connecting with each topic will also provide a way to engage with the lecture material in a tactile way.”
– Chelsea Thatcher, Grace Farms Creative Director
We all build
2025-2026 season
Our 10th anniversary season offers a full schedule of programming intentionally rooted in the theme, We all build. What we choose to build — and how we design and build it — are questions explored at Grace Farms and through our Design for Freedom movement. This season offers unforgettable experiences including one-of-a-kind concerts, nature workshops, wellness tea retreats, and programs spotlighting world-renowned leaders, prolific thinkers, and thought-provoking creatives—inviting people of all ages to come to Grace Farms and consider their individual and collective power to build a better world.
