LaManda Joy is an award-winning Illinois Extension Master Gardener, author, speaker and founder of Chicagos Peterson Garden Project. Her lifes mission is to inspire everyone she meets to grow their own food, seriously.
A lover of garden culture in all forms, shes often found plant snooping around the U.S. and Europe. Shes particularly enamored with the gardens of her husband Peter Wigrens native land Sweden.
In Dreams of a Swedish Summer LaManda shares some of her favorite garden memories from visits over the years to Stockholm and Gotland. The exhibit includes a live garden and photographs of gardens around the world: from Swedish community gardens to 300-year-old urban farms, and even renegade hollyhocks emanating from sidewalk cracks in Stockholm, LaManda Joy shows her love for the plant world and garden community.
