Tyra Shenaurlt, the W. W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Wright Park, Tacoma, WA

Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden · Mar 23, 2023 · 58m

For this penultimate episode of Women’s History month, Cultivating Place heads to Tacoma, Washington, to chat with Tyra Shenaurlt, horticulture resource supervisor at Metro Parks Tacoma, overseeing, among other things, a hundred fifteen-year-old glass house known as the W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Tacoma’s wright park. From March 2021 to May of 2022, the historic structure underwent a massive restoration. Now almost one year out from re-opening, Tyra is with us to share more about her own story as a black woman in horticulture and the story of the historic conservatory where she…