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Cultivating Place
Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring what we mean when we garden. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place illustrates the many ways in which gardens are integral to our natural…
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Cultivating PlaceSaging the World, preparing for CA's Native Plant Week 2022 with Rose Ramirez and Deborah Small
Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an artist, photographer, and…
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The Heirloom Gardener, Traditional Plants and Skills for the Modern World" with John Forti
John Forti is a garden historian, historic garden horticulturist, and slow food advocate. He has put his years of experience and knowledge into The Heirloom…
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A Scientist's quest for nature's next medicines, with Dr. Cassandra Quave
This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by medical ethnobotanist and Emory professor, Dr. Cassandra Quave who shares with us the very personal story of her…
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GROW NOW, gardens as climate activism, with Emily Murphy
Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her 2018 book Grow What…
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The International Rescue Committee's New Roots Program-base in Denver & non-profit ReGeneration Now
This week is a timely and rich with agency conversation on gardens by and for refugee populations. Areti Athanasopoulos is a Denver, Colorado-based landscape…
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Restorative Economics = Flower House Detroit + Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund
Lisa Waud is a collaborative, large-scale floral and installation artist who likes to invite people in to enjoy flowers, and from there into a conversation…
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Winter Gardens, in conversation with UK based photographer Andrew Montgomery
Deep into the Winter season, with February’s full moon behind us, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation with British-based garden photographer Andrew…
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Conserving Plant Diversity, with the Nature Conservancy and the Native Plant Trust
Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener I know. With that in…
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Plantlife International, in conversation with CEO Ian Dunn
Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants, and fungi. With more…
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Coming to fruition, Fruition Seeds, with Petra Page-Mann
Coming up on Cultivating Place this week, we’re in conversation with a new generation seed farmer, Petra Page-Mann. Petra is a co-founder with her husband…
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Larner Seeds for The California Landscape, Judith Larner Lowry
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A Time, founded in 1977…
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BEST OF The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, Vivien Sansour
On Cultivating Place this week, as we revisit a Best Of conversation with Vivien Sansour, the heart and head behind The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library aiming…
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Johnny's Selected Seeds, Independent Home and Market Grower Seed Supplier
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes look at an independent…
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The Seed Keeper(s), with Diane Wilson
To welcome the new year, Cultivating Place stays with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane Wilson…
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New Year & Brave New Seed, Kellee Matsushita-Tseng
As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome/seeding for the new year that will be, I am joined by seed person and agent of growing…
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Conservation of Generosity & Relationships, Gary Paul Nabhan
Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan Brother based in Patagonia, Arizona. He is the author…
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Welcoming Dormancy & Sabbatical, Devorah Brous
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is a time of dormancy for the plant and animal kingdoms alike. While it may look relatively still and quiet, it is in fact a…
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Trophic Cascades with poet & gardener Camille Dungy
As another offering to all of you in your gardens tending toward the Solstice in just a few weeks on December 21st, this week we are in conversation with…
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The Three Tree Geeks of San Francisco & Their #CovidTreeTour
Mike Sullivan is the author of "The trees in San Francisco", Jason Dewees is a horticulturist and author of "Designing with Palms", and Richard Turner is a…
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THANKFUL FOR FARMERS: Matthew Martin, Pyramid Farms
This week I’m thankful for my own garden, of course, but also for the good fresh food grown for all of us by so many hard-working souls wherever you are, from…
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Kinship - Belonging in a World of Relations, with Gavin Van Horn & Rowen White
As a gardener and a human in this exact time on our planet, and in this specific season of the year - a season of communal gathering and thankfulness at the…
Cultivating PlaceThe Wild Seed Project, with Heather McCargo
Fall and early winter are the perfect time in much of the Northern Hemisphere to plant bulbs, woody shrubs and trees, herbaceous perennials, and perennial…
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Garden History & Hindsight, The Garden Museum, London with Director Christopher Woodward
Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gardens and history through the lens of a historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden History through…
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Green & Sacred Space, Historic Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Just in time for Samhain, All Hallow’s Eve, and Day of the Dead observances, this week we explore the sacred, green and communal space of a cemetery –…
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Growing Flavor Past & Present, Chef Dave Smoke-McCluskey & Corn Mafia
This week on Cultivating Place we’re in delicious conversation with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and a grower/producer of such traditional…
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The Greenhorns Envisioning A More Fertile Future, with Severine Von Tscharner Fleming
As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy, beginning to consider next season through the lens of the last season, of forward planning…
Cultivating PlaceGardening in Summer Dry Climates, with photojournalist Saxon Holt
In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, Cultivating Place is joined this week by photo…
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High Style, Dry Gardens with Designer Daniel Nolan
As we near the close of a dry, dry season in the generally dry climates of much of the US west, this week Cultivating Place has the first of a two-episode…
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Planting A Bridge For Our World, With Ernesto Alvarado
Ernesto Alvarado is a Mexican-born, Southern California-based native plant and seed teacher and student. He is currently the Native Plant Nursery Assistant at…
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Seasons Of Our Joy, With Rabbi Arthur Waskow
September, October, and November are traditional harvest celebration months in the Northern Hemisphere from variations on Octoberfests to those around the idea…
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Lenses On The Everyday & Seasonally Sacred, With London-Based Artist And Photographer Kristin Perers
As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd here in the Northern Hemisphere, we are deep in a period of time full of sacred seasonal celebrations…
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CapRadio Garden @ Sac State's Summer Concert Series, W/ Jennifer Reason & Nicole McDavid
On Cultivating Place this week we celebrate (and say farewell) to the fullness of summer at its calendar-end with Labor Day weekend in full view here in the…
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Ecological Lessons From The Human Built, Brooklyn Bridge Park, W/Rebecca McMackin
In our final episode focusing specifically on ecologically rich and contributing gardens, we learn some innovative lessons in built ecology. Literally. Rebecca…
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LAWNS INTO MEADOWS, With Owen Wormser
At a time when our gardens large and small often feel more important than ever, I think our focus on exactly what our gardens contain and consist of is also…
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The Order Of Energy, A Field Trip To The Regenerative Urban Food Forest Of Matthew Trumm
In the heat of the dog days of summer, Cultivating Place celebrates the farms and gardens striving to not draw down resources but to contribute resources back…
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The Land Beyond The Trees, The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, Colorado
This week on Cultivating Place we continue our high-elevation garden view, now in Vail, Colorado at The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, leaders in the research and…
Cultivating PlaceJoy & Wonder at (8,000') Elevation - Isa Catto's Mojo Gardens, Woody Creek, CO
This week on Cultivating Place we gain a little perspective with a lot of altitude as we begin a two-part series on 'Gardening at Elevation’. Isa Catto is a…
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THE OUTSIDER: Botanize Globally, Grow Locally, With The UK's Hannah Gardner
Hannah Gardner is a gardener, writer, and mother. She is a garden designer and plantswoman with a passion for traveling the world to learn about and meet…
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ADVENTUROUS DESIGN & CIVILIZATION BUILDING, David Godshall TERREMOTO LA
David Godshall is a landscape architect, gardener, and meta-garden philosopher making his way with his young family and his Terremoto Landscape Architecture…
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Finding Solace in the Soil, Gardens and Gardeners of the Amache Japanese American Prison Camp
Bonnie J Clark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book "Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at…
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Cultivating Intention: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Ali Meders-Knight, Mechoopda
Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California, a mother of five, and a…
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New Naturalism With Iowa-Based Plantsman, Kelly Norris
At a time in the gardening world when we're hearing the phrase "ecologically functional gardens" and "ecological landscape design" with great regularity…
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Growing Garden Life w/ Jessica Walliser
Jessica Walliser is an avid gardener and professional horticulturist – working in the business of plants and gardening since the tender age of 15. As she has…
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Growing Gently: Honeysuckle & Hilda, The Floral Work Of Claire Bowen, UK
Through the many twists and turns of life, hers including a life-threatening battle with an auto-immune disorder and lung cancer, Claire’s organizing ethos has…
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Slow Flowers for Summer, with Debra Prinzing
Debra Prinzing is the founder and leader of The Slow Flowers Society – She joins Cultivating Place in this first week of summer (after Memorial Day in the US…
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On Refugia: Growing Connection
Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a team of plant folks known as Refugia is growing connection among places and people from their beautifully…
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Fearless Gardening, With The Danger Garden's Loree Bohl
Loree Bohl is the Portland Oregon-based founder and visionary gardener behind the well-known and well-loved Danger Garden Blog. In true Danger Garden fashion…
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Being Radicle, A Conversation W/Landscape Architect Christie Green, Santa Fe, NM
This week on Cultivating Place, we have the second of a two-part series celebrating the publication of Under Western Skies in conversation with landscape…
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Gardens of Soul, Under Western Skies, with photographer Caitlin Atkinson
CAITLIN ATKINSON is a photographer of places, spaces, and all things botanical. She has been my partner this past 2 + years in creating our new book Under…
Cultivating PlaceOur Hunger, Heartache & Identities Healed In The Vegetable Garden, Claire Ratinon
Claire Ratinon is a gardener, a writer, and a passionate advocate for the growing a food no matter where you live or how small a space you might live it. She…
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Seasonal & Elemental: Calling All Tomatomaniacs, With Scott Daigre
It’s spring in the northern hemisphere (even though snow is still making visitations to parts of North American right now), and gardeners across the hemisphere…
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In Advance Of California Native Plant Week, A Conversation With CNPS
April 17 through 24th 2021 is California Native Week, designated by the California State Legislature in 2010 as an annual celebration of the fantastic…
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REIMAGINING THE FOODSHED: AMYROSE FOLL, THE VIRGINIA FREE FARM
Amyrose Foll is a mother, a farmer, and a big thinker. As the executive director and founder of the multifaceted Virginia Free Farm at Spotted Pig Holler in…
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Talking About A Revolution, A Foodscape Revolution With Brie Arthur BEST OF
Just in time for spring and that itch we gardeners - new and long time - have to get the summer vegetables into the ground, Cultivating Place revisit a…
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GARDENS IN TIME & SPACE: Laura Ekasetya, Former Director Lurie Garden, Chicago
Having just moved across the seasonal threshold of the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, this week we continue our focus on land and land and…
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The PERFECT EARTH PROJECT: EDWINA VON GAL
Here we are – mid-way into Women’s History Month, one year after the publication of The Earth in Her Hands. In honor of these two thresholds, this week on CP…
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Balanced Systems Thinking & TEK, with Lorena Gorbet, Maidu Summit Consortium
As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in the balance of natural…
Cultivating PlaceSeason Extending: In The Garden With Niki Jabbour
It’s the first week of March and true spring let alone summer is still a ways off for many of us. This week on Cultivating Place, we lean into the last aspects…
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Gardener Growing: Uprooted, With Page Dickey
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re back stateside to visit with a longtime gardener and garden writer also engaged in a new level of relationship with her…
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To The Forest, With Midori Shintani And Dan Pearson
As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Hokkaido, a northern Island of Japan to celebrate an amazing intertwining of the wild and cultivated, the…