Jens Jensen's guest appearances

Jens Jensen

Earthworms

Roser og Torne

The Daily Gardener

Hurup Bibelcamping

Lystruphave Bibelcamping

Doug Tallamy

Nancy Lawson

Jan Salick

Michelle Obama

Peter Rabbit

Candace Bushnell

Alana Chernila

Emily Dickinson

James Logan

Margaret Roach

Charles Eisenstein

William Morris

Alfred Hitchcock

John Muir

David Burke

OwlTail

Fleeing military conscription and a "landless" future in his native Denmark, Jens Jensen fell in love with the vast though fast-disappearing prairies around Chicago, his adopted home. He saw democracy embodied in these open spaces. His life-work became growing "American Gardens" with these American (today we call them NATIVE) plants, bringing nature into the burgeoning city, as a source of public good.  Earthworms welcomes filmmaker Carey Lundin to talk about her story of legendary landscape designer and public parks advocate, Jens Jensen The Living Green. Jensen (1860-1951) incorporated native plants into sought-after landscape design in an era when gardens here had merely mimicked the formalities and plant types of Europe. He appreciated and popularlized the natural beauties of prairie even as Chicago's growth gobbled up its prairie outskirts. A free St. Louis screening of this film will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Missouri Prairie Foundation. Carol Davit, Executive Director of MPF, also talks with Earthworms, about this organization that conserves, studies and helps restore the biodiverse native grasslands that once covered central North America. Sponsored by Roeslein Alternative Energy, a company researching sustainable-energy use of prairie biomass, The Living Green will fill the outdoor Public Media Commons of the NineNetwork for Public Media on  Saturday, June 18 at 7 p.m. Music: Big Piney Blues, performed by Brian Curran live at KDHX, December 2015.  Related Earthworms Conversations: Prairie Power, March 30, 2016. Wes Jackson: Growing Our Food Crops as Prairies, September 2, 2015.

Fleeing military conscription and a "landless" future in his native Denmark, Jens Jensen fell in love with the vast though fast-disappearing prairies around Chicago, his adopted home. He saw democracy embodied in these open spaces. His life-work became growing "American Gardens" with these American (today we call them NATIVE) plants, bringing nature into the burgeoning city, as a source of public good. Earthworms welcomes filmmaker Carey Lundin to talk about her story of legendary landscape designer and public parks advocate, <a href="http://www.jensjensenthelivinggreen.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jens Jensen The Living Green.</a> Jensen (1860-1951) incorporated native plants into sought-after landscape design in an era when gardens here had merely mimicked the formalities and plant types of Europe. He appreciated and popularlized the natural beauties of prairie even as Chicago's growth gobbled up its prairie outskirts. A free St. Louis screening of this film will celebrate the <a href="http://www.moprairie.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">50th Anniversary of the Missouri Prairie Foundation</a>. Carol Davit, Executive Director of MPF, also talks with Earthworms, about this organization that conserves, studies and helps restore the biodiverse native grasslands that once covered central North America. Sponsored by Roeslein Alternative Energy, a company researching sustainable-energy use of prairie biomass, The Living Green will fill the outdoor Public Media Commons of the NineNetwork for Public Media on <a href="http://www.moprairie.org/events/june-18-film-screening-of-jens-jensen-the-living-green/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Saturday, June 18 at 7 p.m.</a> Music: Big Piney Blues, performed by Brian Curran live at KDHX, December 2015. Related Earthworms Conversations: <a href="http://earthworms.kdhxtra.org/prarie-stuff" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prairie Power</a>, March 30, 2016. <a href="http://earthworms.kdhxtra.org/wes-jackson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wes Jackson: Growing Our Food Crops as Prairies</a>, September 2, 2015.

"Jens Jensen The Living Green" - Celebrating Prairies on Film, In Life