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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
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 Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenTrees are Bridges to the Sky, with ecologist poet Frederick Livingston
“Are Humans Parasites sowing our own hunger, or fruit, gifts from Earth to our future? Is the edge of our lives, civilization, and species a cliff to…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenGood Citizenship = Good Stewardship: Native Seed/SEARCH, with Alexandra Zamecnik
It’s the seedy time of summer. This week of the fourth of July we’re working from the premise that foundational to good citizenship is great stewardship of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
National Pollinator Week with the Pollinator Posse, Tora Rocha
It’s full summer - for us and for the fauna of the Northern Hemisphere. That means many of our most charismatic, sun-loving pollinators are at the peak of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
SOLSTICE SPECIAL: Being Still, with Mary Jo Hoffman
Happy (almost) Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, taking…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
In Honor of Juneteenth: The Anne Spencer House & Garden, with Shaun Spencer Hester
In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we check in on the Anne Spencer House & Garden in Lynchburg, VA. The home and garden of Harlem Renaissance poet…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
A Garden's Purpose, with Félix de Rosen
Cultivating our places with attention, intention, thought and care is certainly an ethos I hold dear and advocate for with some measure of ferocity. When…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Design Futurist Awards, with Sarah Beck of Pacific Horticulture
With the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK just completed, the gardening world as a whole has the concept of Garden Design awards and recognition - along with the…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook, with Milkwood's Kirsten Bradley
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re in conversation with Kristen Bradley, Co-founder and Creative Director of the world-renowned Australian-based Milkwood…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Seed Detective, with Adam Alexander
Just in time for your continued planning, plotting, and planting in order to grow the earliest and the latest and the biggest and the longest producing and the…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Small House Farm Beauty & Learning, Bevin Cohen
Bevin Cohen and his wife Heather Marie co-founded Small House Farm, a homestead, garden, family, and bridge to the natural world around them. Bevin writes…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
A year full of flowers (in pots!), with the UK's Sarah Raven
To kick off May, looking forward to Mother’s Day, Graduations, and the promise of Summer Gardening in general here in the US, this week we go all in for…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
CA NAtive Plant Week & CNPS Rare Plant Program Aaron Sims
The third week of April is California Native Plant week, this year being celebrated by the California Native Plant Society via 8 days of action in honor and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Bumble Bee Atlas Projects w/ Leif Richardson, Xerces Society BEST OF
Following on from native plant week, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation about some of our favorite native plant visitors: our native bumble bees…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Great garden friends: The Hummingbird Monitoring Network, Dr. Susan Wethington BEST OF
Hummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creature of the America’s, the more than 350 species of hummingbirds have coevolved with the flora of the Americas…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Seeding Circularity: Orta Kitchen Garden Seed Pots, Anne Fletcher
This week, with Spring and seeding season fully underway—indoors and out—we speak with gardener entrepreneur Anne Fletcher of Orta Kitchen Gardens, creators of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Women's History Month Finale: Garden Wonderland, with Leslie Bennett
To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week, we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, an Oakland, CA-based landscape designer who creates…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Spring Equinox Special with Owen Wormser of Abound Design
The Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now, and as we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier this week, I want…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Art of Gardens + Sculpture: Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens Grand Rapids, MI
The combining of sculpture and gardens dates back centuries if not millennia, and there are few public gardens I know of that do not incorporate sculpture into…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Women's History Month: The Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar
Happy Women’s History Month! To kick Women’s History Month off on Cultivating Place, we visit with the woman known as the Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Leap Day Special: Gardening Can Be Murder, Marta - McDowell
Most gardeners know the somewhat gruesome pleasure of working in the garden – with a sharp tool, or a poisonous plant, or ankle deep in a juicy scene of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Legends of the Leaf, with Jane Perrone, of On The Ledge Podcast
This week we lean into a particular aspect of our garden lives – but perhaps a favorite winter activity in the northerly climates in winter: tending to our…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, with Brent Leggs
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am so excited…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Library science is (garden) life science, Staci Catron & Jennie Oldfield
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, we use this…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
In honor of BHM: Camille Dungy on "Soil, The Story of A Black Mother's Garden" BEST OF
Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award-winning, often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections of environmentally…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Seed is Life: The National Native Seed Conference Feb 7th and 8th w/ Institute for Applied Ecology
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am pleased to…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenWormwrangling, the science-practice gap, & updating grassland restoration: Dr. Justin Luong
Did you know that grasslands account for between 20 and 40 percent of the world's land area? Generally open, fairly flat, and accessible, they exist on every…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Reimagining May Sarton's house (and garden) by the sea, w/artist Carly Glovinski
This week on Cultivating Place, we hear the magical story of how two gardeners, separated by time, came together to grow all of our imaginations. May Sarton…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Welcoming whimsy, wonder, and the work of Intimacy: Esme Cabrera Naturalist/Artist, la_mamigami
Esme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a born educator. Under the Instagram name “la-mamigami", Esme experiments, shares, and nurtures a plant-based art…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Thinking like healthy habitats (radically and radially), with Sid Hill Ecological Land Artisan
We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place, focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant community thinking getting the final…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
SOLSTICE SPECIAL: THE GARDEN NEXT DOOR with Collin Pine
Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The Garden Next Door…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Uprooting - finding and growing our way home, with Marchelle Farrell
Caribbean-born British-based writer and Gardener Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside, Finding Home in an…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Love, Nature, Magic with Maria Rodale
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, I am thrilled to be joined this week by Maria…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
SUPER BLOOM, with Australian Plantswoman Jac Semmler
Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, highly skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book and the…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Kinship - Belonging in a World of Relations, with Rowen White & Gavin Van Horn Best of
In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power for growing the world…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
GROW with Riz Reyes, award-winning plantsman and author of "Grow: A Family Guide to Plants"
This week we’re in conversation with award-winning plantsman Riz Reyes of Washington State-based RH Horticulture and Landwave Gardens. Riz is the current…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
"Joy Takes Root," a conversation with author Gwendolyn Wallace
Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated children’s literature. Joy Takes Root, and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Growing Home: Humble Roots & The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer
As we turn the calendar to November and the season to decidedly late-fall and even wintery in many places across the U.S., we look toward our fall & winter…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Flora & Forage with Blue Ridge Botanic's Nina Veteto
This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto, a conservationist, an artist, and an expert storyteller. Known as Blue…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
"The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year" with Margaret Renkl
This week in this season of endings and beginnings again, we welcome back writer, backyard tender, and heartfelt observer Margaret Renkl joining us to share…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Star-Gazing, Yard-Sharing, Imagination & Community-Activating: Olly Costello, Drawing us Together
This week on Cultivating Place, we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant-loving and garden-growing lives in conversation with Olly…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Who is "joe gardener"? A conversation with Joe Lamp'l, Growing A Greener World
This week, we enjoy a conversation with a gardener and garden guru well- known and loved: Joe Lamp’l of the famed and award-winning Growing a Greener World on…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Miraculum and Cosmosis With Artist Libby Ellis
As we move toward October, the first a few intermittent episodes reminding us of the artistry behind our plant and garden love, the artistry underpinning…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Marginalian, with Maria Popova BEST OF
This week, a Best OF episode revisiting our conversation with Maria Popova, the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings)…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
WHAT WE SOW, with guest host Dave Schlom Interviewing Jennifer Jewell
On this special edition of the show, our guest will be Cultivating Place’s wonderful host, Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer has a new book out and it’s very special…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The High Line of NYC, with Director of Horticulture Richard Hayden
This week, our second episode on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s inaugural Garden Futures Summit…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
New York Green, with photographer & author Ngoc Minh Ngo
To kick off September, we head to the Big Apple, where at the end of the month, the Garden Conservancy is holding its inaugural Garden Futures Summit on…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Dancing in the Dragon's Jaw Design Studio Course, UTenn, Knoxville
Chad Manley is a fellow and lecturer in the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Nora Jacobs and Carlos Velasco were two…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Miami of Ohio's Institute for Environment & Sustainability Masters of Environment program
Can you believe it is already back-to-school season? This week, we look at what back to school means for our lifelong learning with plants. This week, we’re in…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Thoughtful Alchemy: Sustainable Floral Design, Shane Connolly & Co
As we tend toward summer’s end, with end-of-summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the planning, we turn this…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Firescaping, with Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger
In the throes of fire season, especially in the western regions of North America, this week, we turn to the idea of not only gardening for beauty, food, and/or…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Value of Native Plants for Gardens Trials, Sam Hoadley Mt. Cuba Center
Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation center as well as one of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Olbrich Botanical Gardens centering plants & people of Madison, Wisconsin, w/Erin Presley
Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded in 1952 on the shores…
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Coming to our Senses: Wildscape, with Master Naturalist Nancy Lawson
The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening and even rotting. In…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Beautiful Chaos of Garden Inspired Living, with Oklahoma-based Linda Vater
The garden in summer is what we all dream of: some downtime, some play time, fresh flavors, fragrances, and of course, flowers and fun. This week we revel in…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Summer Garden Good Reads: Hedge, with novelist Jane Delury
Novelist Jane Delury describes herself as a fledgling (maybe seedling?) gardener after 8 years into gardening being part of her everyday life and loves. This…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Good Citizenship & Right Relationship: Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements w/ Redbud Resource Group
This week before July is upon us, and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so pleased to be joined…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Impermanent Beauty: Solstice Season with Morning Altars' Day Schildkret
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and how they are growing our world, I am so pleased to be back in conversation this week…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Preparing for National Pollinator Week: The California Bumble Bee Atlas, Leif Richardson of Xerces
National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by Pollinator Partnership. This…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Garden for Wildlife Celebrating 50 Years, National Wildlife Federation's Mary Phillips
No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, wildscaping, backyard habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat gardening, Homegrown National…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Normalizing Native Plant Landscape Joy, with the Theodore Payne Foundation
Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration through the lens of…