Natalie Crist: Ecosystem Builder — Bloom, Decay, and Designing for Awe
In Episode 11 of The Russi Hive Podcast, Alejandra sits down with landscape designer Natalie Crist for a conversation about gardens as sensual, unruly worlds—places where beauty, ecology, pleasure, and human intention are constantly negotiating with one another.
Crist came to her practice by way of medicine and horticulture, and that double perspective runs through the episode. She talks about plants not simply as material, but as active presences—edible, therapeutic, sensory, seasonal—and about the ways a landscape can work on the body before the mind has fully caught up.
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