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Unpredictable climate conditions are challenging the way we garden. This three-part series will increase what you need to know about plants, soil, water, and resource conservation in order to surmount the challenges a changing climate presents. The Lloyd Library in collaboration with the Civic Garden Center and Cincinnati Nature Center are hosting a series of classes through University of Cincinnati’s Communiversity.

Hosted by Greg Torres, this class will examine the environmental issues facing intensively cultured plants directly used by man for food, for medicinal purposes, or for aesthetic gratification both within and outside of the horticulture industry. It will talk about some basic principles for the future of horticulture so that it can truly play a beneficial and sustainable role in our homes and local environment. It will look at practical changes in our own decision making and how we perform horticulture at home that will help drive market forces to become more environmentally conscious and sustainable as well.

Registration required, $35 per class/$90 for the series.

The Lloyd Library will be open in the evening for Final Friday in October. Several Out of the Stacks artists will be on hand to informally discuss their work. Enjoy refreshments and come see the exhibits.

Free and open to the public.

Learn basic bookmaking skills from a member of the Cincinnati Book Arts Society and take home 3 beautiful handmade books for taking field notes or displaying your photographs: a pocket size leather journal, a simple stitched soft cover book, and an accordion folded book with hard cover. Space is limited

Registration is closed.

Join writer Annette Januzzi Wick and the library staff to explore and create, with words, your own narratives, using the books and other archival materials as inspiration. Imaginative writing prompts. Time for sharing. All genres of writing welcome.

Co-sponsored by Women Writing for (a) Change.  Open to all genders, ages 16 through adult. Class size limited. Reservations required, tuition: $35.   Go to www.womenwriting.org or call (513)272-1171.

In the 1870s, Cincinnati pharmacist and scientist, John Uri Lloyd, along with his two brothers Nelson Ashley Lloyd and Curtis Gates Lloyd, founded a botanical library with a focus on Eclectic, or natural medicine.  In the next 50 years, their research and collection development spanned the globe, including the Pacific Islands of Hawaii and Samoa, where they gathered information on the cultural and medicinal uses of plants by the native people.  Join Patricia Van Skaik of the Lloyd Library as she takes you on a journey of resources spanning the 1830s to the present and delves into medicinal plants, plants in Pacific Island cultures, and conservation and habitat needs today.

For more information visit Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Wellness.

 

This lecture by 2018 Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellows, Jonathan Frey & Anna Kell, will introduce attendees to the pair’s design project at the Lloyd and to a term that’s gaining popularity: Plant Blindness, the inability to see or recognize plants.

Attempting to combat the condition of plant blindness, Frey and Kell centered their project around the research and production of a series of posters that promote plant literacy through the visual qualities of plants. 

Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m., lecture begins at 6:30 p.m.

Celebrate the opening of the Lloyd Library & Museum’s Fotocus 2018 Open Archives exhibits, Out of the Stacks: Lloyd Inspired Artist Books and A Year on the Edge: A Photographic Narrative of the Edge of Appalachia Preserve.

Out of the Stacks is a collection of artists’ books created by members Cincinnati Book Arts Society using photographic mediums that are based on items from the Lloyd’s collections.

Stepping further out of the stacks, The Nature Conservancy photographers Rick Connor and TJ Vissing showcase the seasons in A Year on the Edge: A Photographic Narrative of the Edge of Appalachia Preserve. 

Free and open to the public.

What does a gin and tonic, the Nobel Prize, and the fall of the Roman Empire, have in common?  Find out when Dr. Eric Tepe, of the University of Cincinnati, talks about malaria, botanical medicine, and the path from traditional cure to cutting edge drugs in the treatment of one of the World’s deadliest diseases. 

Arrive early for the lecture and sample gin and tonic from The Knox Joseph Distillery. Located in OTR, it sits on top of the Great Miami Aquifer. Their recipe is based on one from the 1600s found while researching gin at the Lloyd Library. Meet owner & entrepreneur Michele Hobbs, Head Distiller Chris Mitchell and learn more about small batch artisan distilling and the appreciation of gin.

Free and open to the public. Doors open at 6 p.m., lecture starts at 7 p.m.  Registration required.