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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 PlaceLUNAR NEW YEAR, A Conversation With Taiwanese American Plantsman Eric Hsu
On February 12th, the Lunar New Year begins. Celebrated by Asian cultures across the globe, this week Cultivating Place speaks with Eric Hsu, a plantsman of…
Cultivating PlaceMAKING A LIFE, with MELANIE FALICK BEST OF
This week to welcome February we revisit a favorite conversation from our last season - a good reminder to mind the way you spend your days - added together…
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Tu B'Shevat (New Year Of The Trees), With Karen Flotte
This week on Cultivating Place we lean into the spirit of the season and the traditional Jewish festival Tu B’Shevat, or New Year of the Trees in conversation…
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BIG IDEAS and Public Horticulture, MaryLynn Mack, South Coast Botanical Garden SOCAL
MaryLynn Mack is a renaissance woman and leading voice in the world of public gardens today. After beginning her career in the Navy, her experiences have taken…
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HOMEGROWN HOPE, Doug Tallamy EnVisioning a Homegrown National Park
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our FRESH STARTS series in conversation with a long established friend in the gardening world, Doug Tallamy. His…
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GARDEN FUTURE FORWARD, The Botanic Garden, Tim Johnson & Jamil DePeiza-Kern
To kick off the new year, Cultivating Place offers out the first in what will be an ongoing and intermittent series exploring Fresh Starts in our horticultural…
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GARDENING OUT LOUD, With Duron Chavis
In honor of the losses, griefs, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we all hold in our gardens and our hearts…
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GOOD MEDICINE, With Sayaka Lean Of The Herb Pharm
In this first week of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, Cultivating Place speaks this week with medicinal and habitat gardener Sayaka Lean of the Herb Pharm…
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IMAGINE: A Conversation With Amber Tamm
In honor of the Solstice on December 21st, Cultivating Place speaks this week with Brooklyn-born farmer/horticulturist/floral designer, activist, and daughter…
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Something Wild & Composed for Winter, with Hort & Pott
This week on Cultivating Place we continue our winter greening cheer in conversation with Todd Carr and Carter Harrington of Hort and Pott, a botanical studio…
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A Handful of Gratitude & Fortitude, Teresa Sabankaya "The Posy Book"
This week Cultivating Place kicks off December with a flourish in conversation with Teresa Sabankaya of the Santa Cruz-based Bonny Doon Garden Company and…
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Seed Lessons on Transformation, Vivien Sansour & The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library
Join us this week on Cultivating Place for our final episode in the Seed Change series. We are in conversation with Vivien Sansour, heart and head behind The…
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SEEDBANKING A FLORISTIC PROVINCE II: Cheryl Birker, California Botanic Garden
This week on Cultivating Place, the third in our 4 part Seed Change series with Cheryl Birker, Seed Conservation Program Manager at California Botanic Garden…
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Seed Banking A Floristic Province, Naomi Fraga Of California Botanic Garden
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our Seed Change series with Naomi Fraga, research assistant professor of Botany at Claremont Graduate University…
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SEED CHANGE: Seeds And Their People, Owen Smith Taylor And Chris Bolden-Newsome
This week on Cultivating Place we continue our Seed Change series - a nod to faith and a vote for the next growing season. We’re joined this week by Chris…
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Best Of: Hope Springs - Growing Flowers From Seed, Clare Foster
In this season of colliding urgencies and not infrequent dismay - the garden offers so many lessons. Among the largest of these, brought to you in the smallest…
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Beauty & Balance: Southwest High Desert Gardens with Judith Phillips Albuquerque, NM
This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by award winning landscape designer Judith Phillips of Albuquerque NM. Her Design Oasis, characterized by creative…
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VIRIDITAS & Attachment Gardening, With Sue Stuart-Smith
This week on Cultivating Place we speak with British gardener and psychiatrist/psychotherapist Sue Stuart-Smith, whose book, "The Well-Gardened Mind: The…
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Tools For Building A Home In This World: Homeless Garden Project - Santa Cruz, CA
As we continue our exploration into creativity born of the garden –I share with you today a story and model for creativity coupled with kindness. On…
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On Creativity: Life In The Studio (& Garden) With Frances Palmer
This week we kick off October with a dive into creativity – the way gardeners harness it, riff off it, and share its results forward with the larger world –…
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Trusting The Nature Of Our Gardens & Selves, With Camilla Jorvad
Camilla Jorvad is a photographer, a gardener, a mental health and rewilding habitat gardening advocate based on the Danish Island of Aero. Her home-farm shared…
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FOR THE LOVE OF PLANTS, with Horticulturist Wambuii Ippolito
Most gardens, gardeners, and gardening seasons are deeply informed first and foremost by a deep love of PLANTS. Of space, and design, and color, and food, and…
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Sculptura Botanica With Dustin Gimbel
Dustin Gimbel is a landscape designer and large scale outdoor ceramic artist inspired by the botanical world and based in Southern California. In a new episode…
Cultivating PlaceBack To School Special: The Little Gardener With Julie Cerny
In this very unusual back-to-school season here in the US, we’re joined this week by Julie Cerny a gardener, an outdoor enthusiast, and educator. Her new book…
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Growing Food And Community: Urban Farming Institute, Boston
This week on Cultivating Place we’re focused on growing food and community when we’re joined by Patricia Spence, President and CEO of the Urban Farming…
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The Lifelong Gardener, Toni Gattone
Toni Gattone is a businesswoman, a master gardener, and a lifelong gardener of Italian descent. After struggling herself with a bad back, and the limitations…
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Collaborative Growing: Farmer Meg
Farmer Meg is an urban beekeeper turned flower and market grower turned farmer. Meg has been farming in NJ and NY city and state for almost a decade. Just over…
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Black Culture + Horticulture: Black In The Garden, With Colah B. Tawkin
This week on Cultivating Place we get a booster shot of energy and inspiration as we enter the dog days of summer when we’re joined by Colah B. Tawkin – the…
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The Transformational (Garden) Art Of Jasna Guy
Jasna Guy is an artist whose visionary and liminal work is based in close observation of the plants and pollinators – specifically bees – of her garden and…
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The Garden Curator - Art in and of the Garden, Colleen Southwell, Australia
In the throes of high summer, Cultivating Place continues to explore the fruits of the imaginative nature of the garden. We begin a two-part series on visual…
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Botanical Mythology And The Imagination Of Plants With Matt Hall, NZ
A good read often plumbs the depths of imagination, for Matthew Hall - gardener & researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand – it’s the…
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Writing Wild: 25 Women Poets, Ramblers & Mavericks w/ Kathryn Aalto
This week on Cultivating Place we take a summer amble with British-based Californian Kathryn Aalto – a historian, designer, and writer whose most recent book…
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Botany, Geography, History & Power At The Heart Of The Garden, W/ Jamaica Kincaid
In honor of the Fourth of July, Cultivating Place is joined this week by the acclaimed writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid, whose work "My Garden (Book)"…
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Summer Garden Gems: The Melon, With Amy Goldman
Amy Goldman is a gardener, author-artist, and longtime advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her mission has for many…
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FOR THE LOVE OF 'BUGS' (INSECTS) with Entomologist Nadia Ruffin
Nadia Ruffin is an entomologist, gardener, and educator. She is the founder of Agricademy Inc and Urban Farm Sista based in Cincinnati, Ohio. A lover of bugs…
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Wedding(FLOWERS)Season, With Philippa Craddock, UK
June is traditionally a month in which many, many weddings are celebrated with family, food, and FLOWERS. With many of these weddings on hold this year due to…
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Unabashed Gratitude, Delight & Structures Of Care - Ross Gay, Poet Gardener
Ross Gay is a gardener - he is also an award-winning poet and a professor. A founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a food justice and joy…
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MAKING A LIFE, With MELANIE FALICK
Melanie Falick is a maker of many things by hand, and in her work from knitting to gardening, welding to baking, she explores the connection between what we do…
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Growing Weed In The Garden, Johanna Silver
Johanna Silver is a gardener, writer and editor, formerly the garden editor at Sunset Magazine and regular contributor to Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes &…
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For The Love Of Roses, With Rose Devotee Fallon Shea
Fallon Shea is a self-described rose devotee and roseologist currently making her life with roses in Southern California as a grower, designer, artist, and…
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The Comfort Of Roses, With Michael Marriott Of David Austin Roses
Cultivating Place kicks off the month of May - with two-episodes focused on ROSES – we start off this week before Mother’s Day here in the U.S., with a visit…
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Navigating By Plants: Uli Lorimer, Native Plant Trust
Uli Lorimer is the director of Horticulture for the Native Plant Trust in Massachusetts. His work as a native plant and biodiversity advocate is informed by…
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FIBERSHED - Growing A Healthier Economy & Environment
Rebecca Burgess is a gardener, weaver and natural dyer. She is the executive director of Fibershed, the chair of the Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of…
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Seedkeeper: Ira Wallace THE EARTH IN HER HANDS Series
This week on Cultivating Place, a BEST OF in which we revisit our seedkeeping series. IN this one, we’re joined by plantswoman, seed advocate, farmer and…
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The Kitchen Garden Revival, With Nicole Johnsey Burke Of Gardenary
For many, the orders to stay at home are also encouraging permission slips to GARDEN. On Cultivating Place this week, we are joined by Nicole Johnsey Burke of…
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FOR THE WILD With Ayana Young, THE EARTH IN HER HANDS series #5
While we head into another month under social distancing and self-isolation restrictions in order to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus COVID-19…
Cultivating PlaceCultivated: The Elements of Floral Style with Christin Geall, THE EARTH IN HER HANDS #4
So many people have reached out to express how the CP podcast is more important to them than ever. So even as this global crisis continues, so too Women’s…
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Dr. Elaine Ingham, Soil Scientist - THE EARTH IN HER HANDS #3
Women’s History month on Cultivating Place continues this week, knowing that radio and new voices are especially important to us all right now. Dr. Elaine…
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Andrea DeLong-Amaya, THE EARTH IN HER HANDS #2
Women’s History month on Cultivating Place continues this week with Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Director of Horticulture at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in…
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Tiffany Freeman, Clinical Herbalist THE EARTH IN HER HANDS #1
This week we wrap up our series on the healing power of gardens and kick off our Women’s History Month all at the same time. For every episode in March to…
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Horticultural Therapy At Work: Matt Wichrowski, MSW, HTR Rusk Institute HEALING GARDENS #5
As we start to wind down our series on Healing Gardens and Therapeutic Landscape design, we’re joined by Matthew J. Wichrowski, MSW HTR, Clinical Assistant…
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THE ELDER - An Ancient Healing Plant Ally, HEALING GARDENS #4
This week the Cultivating Place series on Healing Gardens dives into one of our most ancient healing plant allies – the Elder – it’s genus, its history, its…
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HEALING GARDEN SERIES #3: Horticultural Therapy - Perla Curbelo, Puerto Rico
Even as a girl growing up in Puerto Rico, Perla Sofía Curbelo recognized that the simple act of picking flowers for her mother to put out in their homemade…
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Healing Gardens Series #2: Therapeutic Landscapes Network, Dr. Naomi Sachs, Founding Director
In our second episode in a series around the healing power of plants and gardens in our world, we get an overview of the professional field of Horticultural…
Cultivating PlaceHealing Gardens Series #1: Sanctuary, Annie Kirk Of Red Bird Restorative Gardens
This week we kick off a series on the Healing Power of Gardens, in the series we’ll visit with Dr. Naomi Sachs, of the Therapeutic Landscapes Network, with…
Cultivating PlaceGROWING EMPOWERMENT - Frailty Myths, with Erinn Carter & Georgia Faye Hirs
This week on CP, we're emboldened to consider our strength and power in the garden and in life generally by Erinn Carter and Georgia Faye Hirsty, two of the…
Cultivating PlaceEmily Dickinson's Gardening Life, Marta McDowell
January and mid-winter indeed feels poetic in its spareness, and while many poets come to mind, for me Emily Dickinson stands out for seasonality and abundance…
Cultivating Place(Gardening) News From The Capital: The Washington Gardener, Kathy Jentz
It's shaping up to be a big news year for Washington DC, so this week Cultivating Place heads to the capital, but we’re there to check in with the gardeners of…
Cultivating PlaceConsider The Lilies, With Naturalist Educator Joe Joe Clark
As we ring in the New Year of this New Decade with the power of 2020 ours for the making, this week we are welcoming gardener, naturalist, educator, husband…
Cultivating PlaceSeedlings - The Growing Power Of Children's Literature
From anecdotal and personal experiences, we know that many gardeners in the world are born of early childhood experiences, while I can’t get every child…