Grace Farms Lectures | Dr. 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
The Grace Farms Lectures bring together visionary leaders who have shaped our world, inviting them to share the wisdom they have learned through their distinguished careers. Each lecture is accompanied by a specially curated 60-minute concert performed by some of today’s most celebrated musicians. The pieces these artists perform respond directly to the life’s work of each speaker and the impact they continue to make.
“This program is designed as an epic Grace Farms experience, with 60-minutes of music curated for each lecture by artist-in-residence, Arlen Hlusko, to enhance the message of the Lectures. 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.
