Jill Nooney and her husband Bob Munger spent 40 years creating their 30-acre garden in eastern New Hampshire. The result, Bedrock Gardens, is now a public garden that is filled with Jill’s ideas for approaching the landscape and Bob’s clever and synergistic implementation of her ideas and dreams. The garden synthesizes their creativity, their love of plants, and their approach to shaping the land into a series of landforms, a stumpery, forests, pond gardens, and meadows, that also serve as a backdrop for Jill’s artwork. The landscape is inspired and inspires the creativity of its inhabitants and its visitors. A trained social worker and a landscape designer who graduated from the Radcliffe Seminars in Landscape Design, Jill’s work combines her passion for plant collecting with her love of found and repurposed objects, and, as she shares the tales captured in her book, The Making of Bedrock Gardens, we are brought into the irreverent and moving landscape she has created.
About The Garden-Makers Talks
Since its founding in 1887, Dewey Hall has been a place for Berkshire residents and visitors to come together for social and educational activities. As we approach our 140th anniversary, the board is making a number of capital improvements – among them, an enclosed garden behind the Hall where events, from our Dahlia Festival and Ice Cream Social to concerts and private celebrations, can spill outdoors and connect guests to the landscape.
Your suggested $25 donation for each program goes directly to the Dewey Hall Garden Fund, which will create our own Arts-and-Crafts garden. The new garden will also provide accessible entry into the Hall, welcoming everyone through a landscaped garden and stone terrace.
Saturday, December 5, 2026 – 4 pm
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield MA 01257
$25 suggested donation – light refreshments to follow
All proceeds benefit the Dewey Hall Garden Fund
Click here to reserve your seat
Jill Nooney and her husband Bob Munger spent 40 years creating their 30-acre garden in eastern New Hampshire. The result, Bedrock Gardens, is now a public garden that is filled with Jill’s ideas for approaching the landscape and Bob’s clever and synergistic implementation of her ideas and dreams. The garden synthesizes their creativity, their love of plants, and their approach to shaping the land into a series of landforms, a stumpery, forests, pond gardens, and meadows, that also serve as a backdrop for Jill’s artwork. The landscape is inspired and inspires the creativity of its inhabitants and its visitors. A trained social worker and a landscape designer who graduated from the Radcliffe Seminars in Landscape Design, Jill’s work combines her passion for plant collecting with her love of found and repurposed objects, and, as she shares the tales captured in her book, The Making of Bedrock Gardens, we are brought into the irreverent and moving landscape she has created.
About The Garden-Makers Talks
Since its founding in 1887, Dewey Hall has been a place for Berkshire residents and visitors to come together for social and educational activities. As we approach our 140th anniversary, the board is making a number of capital improvements – among them, an enclosed garden behind the Hall where events, from our Dahlia Festival and Ice Cream Social to concerts and private celebrations, can spill outdoors and connect guests to the landscape.
Your suggested $25 donation for each program goes directly to the Dewey Hall Garden Fund, which will create our own Arts-and-Crafts garden. The new garden will also provide accessible entry into the Hall, welcoming everyone through a landscaped garden and stone terrace.
Saturday, December 5, 2026 – 4 pm
Dewey Hall, 91 Main Street, Sheffield MA 01257
$25 suggested donation – light refreshments to follow
All proceeds benefit the Dewey Hall Garden Fund
Click here to reserve your seat
