Cultivating The Future: Horticulture Insights From Kim Shearer At The Morton Arboretum
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we are joined by Kim Shearer, MS, the Director of Collections and Curator at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. As an expert in trees, shrubs, and selective breeding, Kim strives to make the Arboretum's mission a reality: to make the world a greener, healthier, and more beautiful place…
In order to keep the Arboretum thriving, Kim works to introduce plants with broad adaptability, disease resistance, and pest resistance. By exploring the intricacies of plant survival in controlled settings, Kim and her team specialize in cultivating breathtaking environments for others to enjoy and educate themselves on.
Dive in now to find out:
- Kim's unique background in horticulture science.
- How certain plants live and interact in the Arboretum versus natural environments.
- How plants can challenge our assumptions.
- What the future holds for The Morton Arboretum.
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| 0:30.0 | This is the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | That is Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | My guest is Kim Shearer. She's a curator of collections and manager of new plant development at the Morton Arboretum. So I think this would be a really interesting call. I've been to |
| 0:50.6 | Arboretum myself and I'll walk through and do the tour but it's very rare you get to speak to the people that are curating the exhibits. |
| 0:57.5 | So welcome Kim, thanks for coming. |
| 0:59.5 | Hi, thank you Richard and I'm going to go ahead, you might edit this out later. |
| 1:04.0 | I had a title change. I just emailed it this morning. |
| 1:06.4 | So I am the Director of Collections and Curator now. |
| 1:09.4 | Okay, excellent. |
| 1:10.4 | So the Director of Collections at Curate. |
| 1:12.2 | All right. |
| 1:12.6 | Yeah, well, let's, yeah, we'll get into the arboretum and one second. |
| 1:16.3 | Tell me a bit about your background, like, how did you get to work at the arboretum? |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, so I think, I don't know that I have a typical story, although I guess there's not really typical stories out there. |
| 1:26.5 | A lot of folks get into porticulture through career shifts or changes in life, and I happen to be one of those folks. |
| 1:32.3 | So back in, I actually took 10 years off from college until I figured out what I wanted to do. |
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