December 20 2023

2024 LoCoFlo BookClub

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Meetings are Monday nights at 7:00PM at the shop (dates below).

BookClub on Zoom! I'll be hosting online meetings Tuesday nights at 7:00PM following the in-person Monday night meetings (join my email list for the zoom links).

• Feb 26 2024 North Woods by Daniel Mason
• Apr 22 2024 Soil by Camille Dungy
• Jun 24 2024 Fire Weather by John Vaillant
• Aug 5 2024 This Country by Navied Mahdavian
• Sep 23 2024 Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
• Nov 11 2024 Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

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March 15 2023

2023 LoCoFlo BookClub

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Wow! Ten years of nerdy bookclub!

Meetings are Monday nights at 7:00PM at the shop (dates below).

New this year: BookClub on Zoom! I'll be hosting online meetings Tuesday nights at 7:00PM following the in-person Monday night meetings (join my email list for the zoom links).

• Feb 27 2023 The Home Place by J. Drew Lanham
• May 1 2023 (new date in studio | online - Apr 25) Silent Spring Revolution by Douglas Brinkley
• Jun 19 2023 Bet the Farm by Beth Hoffman
• Jul 31 2023 River of the Gods by Candice Millard
• Sep 18 2023 Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver
• Nov 13 2023 A Darker Wilderness Edited by Erin Sharkey

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January 01 2022

2022 LoCoFlo BookClub

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It looks like year nine of our nerdy bookclub will at least start online. Email Ellen (ellen@locoflo.com) for a link if you want to dial in. Meeting online isn't all bad. One author has already asked about joining in! (Hint: It's not Octavia Butler. She will only show up in person.)

Meetings are Monday nights at 7:00PM (dates below). We’re always looking for more flower friends to join the fun!

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• Feb 28 2022 The Unlikely Thru-Hiker: An Appalachian Trail Journey by Derick Lugo
• Apr 25 2022 (new date) Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler
• Jun 20 2022 Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone
• Aug 22 2022 The Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris
• Oct 17 2022 My Garden (Book) by Jamaica Kincaid
• Dec 5 2022 Anthill by E. O. Wilson
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December 14 2020

2021 LoCoFlo BookClub

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The ocho, nerds!

Our book club is super casual - just drop in. Meetings are Monday nights at 7:00PM (dates below). The over/under on resuming the LoCoFlo BookClub in person is sitting on June 21. So, we'll be online for at least the first half of the year. Email Ellen (ellen@locoflo.com) for the link. We will let you know when the book club will be back IRL at the studio We’re always looking for more flower friends to join the fun!

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• Feb 22 2021 Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White
• Apr 19 2021 H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
• Jun 28 2021 (new date) All We Can Save by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
• Aug 22 2021 Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
• Oct 18 2021 Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
• Dec 13 2021 Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
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May 18 2020

Books, Books, I Need My Books

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Our next promotion for Ellen's online course is her list of Ten Books Every Flower Pro Should Read. Boring, right? Think again. We're kicking off this list with a flower books beatdown IG Live event on Tuesday May 19 at 4:30 PM EST (available later on IG TV). Ellen and Jennie Love of Love 'n Fresh Flowers are going to go at it over their favorite floral books as industry pros. It's definitely gonna get chippy.

Ellen with author Amy Stewart

So, what books made the cut for Ellen? You have to sign up for the course news email list. But here's a teaser: Flower Confidential, obvi. Martha, duh (but which Martha - there's so many). How many selections from Ellen's nerdy book club? What hidden gems are listed that you have not discovered yet? Such intrigue!

In this publication Ellen writes why she selected each book and what the titles mean to her and Local Color Flowers. It is a list from Ellen's perspective as a professional florist. However, it is a great collection for any flower enthusiast. If your favorite didn't make Ellen's list, add your recommendations to the comments.

We're going to be producing lots of free informative, valuable, and entertaining stuff, like this list of books, leading up to Ellen's class: Florist School Onlline: Growing Your Business with Local Flower Sourcing. It's all available when signing up for the course news.

Do it.

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December 16 2019

2020 LoCoFlo BookClub

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Lucky number 7! LoCoFlo BookClub 2020 is our seventh year. We're so old and nerdy we have returning authors: Mary Oliver and Robin Wall Kimmerer (what!). The line up is a mix of fiction, non-fiction and essays about trees, swamps, moss, parks, streams and race. We're stepping it up! No Darwin. No Mark Cameron picks. Best year yet!

The book club is super casual - just drop in. Meetings are Monday nights (dates below) at 7:00PM at our studio. Bring drinks and snacks. We’re always looking for more flower friends to join the fun!

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• Feb 24 2020 The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Apr 27 2020 Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
• Jun 22 2020 Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney
• Aug 24 2020 Genius of Place by Justin Martin
• Oct 26 2020 Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Dec 14 2020 Upstream by Mary Oliver
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December 27 2018

2019 LoCoFlo BookClub

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The LoCoFlo Book Club is getting extra nerdy in 2019 with a Darwin add-on. As always, the book club is super casual - just drop in. Meetings take place on Monday nights (dates below) at 7pm at our studio You can see more info on our Book Club facebook page. We’re always looking for more folks to join in the fun!

• February 25 2019 Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver
• April 22 2019 American Eden, Victoria Johnson
• June 24 2019 The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben and Mike Grady
• August 19 2019 The Reason for Flowers, Stephen Buchmann and Jonathan Yen
• October 21 2019 A Beautiful Question, Frank Wilczek
• December 16 2019 Darwin Comes to Town Menno Schilthuizen and Chris Nayak

Since Darwin has been a frequent subject in many of the books we've read over the past six years, we are finally going to tackle On the Origin of Species. This is an optional add-on to the scheduled readings. At the end of every meeting we'll discuss a few chapters of Darwin with the goal of finishing in December of 2019.

Our homie Charlie

Darwin add-on schedule (seriously):

• February 25 2019 Intro and Chapters 1 and 2
• April 22 2019 Chapters 3 and 4
• June 24 2019 Chapters 5, 6 and 7
• August 19 2019 Chapters 8 and 9
• October 21 2019 Chapters 10, 11, 12
• December 16 2019 Chapters 13 and 14

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November 17 2017

2018 LoCoFlo BookClub

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2018 will mark the 5th year of the LoCoFlo Book Club! We are a drop in book club that reads books that loosely focus on the natural world. We have read fiction, non-fiction and poetry in past years. Our meetings take place on Monday nights (dates below) at 7pm at our studio in Charles Village (3100 Brentwood Ave Baltimore 21218). All meetings are drop-in so no need to RSVP. You can see more info on our Book Club facebook page. We’re always looking for more folks to join in the fun!

• February 5 2018 Sea of Poppies Amitav Ghosh
• April 9 2018 The Nature Fix Florence Williams
• June 18 2018 A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir Donald Worster
• August 20 2018 The Orchid Thief Susan Orlean
• October 29 2018 The Book that Changed America Randall Fuller
• December 10 2018 The Unsettlers Mark Sundeen

Mark your calendars and start reading!

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February 01 2017

2017 LoCoFlo BookClub

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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
Oscar Wilde

Local Color Flowers hosts a super fun, totally dorky Book Club! All are welcome! The meeting is drop-in so no need to RSVP…just read and come on by. All meetings are held at our studio located at 3100 Brentwood Ave. Baltimore MD 21218 and take place from 7pm - 9pm.

Here is the 2017 list of books to read and dates for the meetings:

• February 6, 2017 Jayber Crow, Wendell Berry
• April 10, 2017 Tulipmania, Mike Dash
• June 19, 2017 Walden, Henry David Thoreau
• August 21 2017 Paradise Lot, Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates
• October 23 2017 Urban Forests, Jill Jonnes
• December 11 2017 Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Van

Learn more on our Bookclub Facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/locoflobookclub

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