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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 GardenHigh Value Habitat, Pat Reynolds of Heritage Growers Native Seed & Plant
Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring of habitat restoration…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenSeed Strategies at Scale, Andrea Williams
This week we kick off a several-part series looking into the state of seed, specifically wildland seed, for conservation and ecological restoration in our…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenJUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER'S DAY: BLOOM! WITH THE SLOW FLOWERS SOCIETY'S DEB PRINZING
We are now mid-May, halfway through a month of graduations, spring celebrations, and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US this coming weekend…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenSOIL: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, with Camille Dungy
As we head into the exuberance of May and towards Mother’s Day celebrations here in the U.S., this week, we speak again with award-winning poet, scholar, and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
BEST OF with David Rawle, Theodora Park, Charleston, S.C.
As we close out April, a best of conversation from Mother’s Day 2022. Can we ever get enough nurturing energy in the world? Enjoy! David Rawle is the founder…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenCultivating Eden with Artist, Landscape Historian & Garden DesignerRebecca Allan
This last week of April, we enjoy an art of the garden conversation with artist, historian, gardener and environmental advocate Rebecca Allan. Bronx-New…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Earth Day Special: We Are The ARK with Ireland's Mary Reynolds
It is now Mid-April, and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are blooming and being admired…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Curiosity in the Field of Dreams with Plantsman Roy Diblik
Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives calling to bring gardeners great plants –…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Prairie Up! With Plantsperson Benjamin Vogt
I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snowdrops in Vermont, Cherry…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Why Women Grow, with Alice Vincent (aka Noughticulture)
Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller based in London, and examining with gusto and curiosity the intricacies of words and language, of what it is to…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenTyra Shenaurlt, the W. W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Wright Park, Tacoma, WA
For this penultimate episode of Women’s History month, Cultivating Place heads to Tacoma, Washington, to chat with Tyra Shenaurlt, horticulture resource…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Seed Keeper(s), with Diane Wilson BEST OF
This week we revisit a best-of Cultivating Place conversation focusing on seeding our imaginations—metaphorically and literally, with Diane Wilson writer…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Bringing Back the Natives Tour, Kathy Kramer
In a continuation of Women’s History Month and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Loving the Surface of the Earth: Orwell's Roses, with Rebecca Solnit
In this first week of March, we kick off Women’s History Month in conversation with one of the great critical thinkers and writers of our time, Rebecca Solnit…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Winter Keepers, Cookers, and Ciders: James Rich, orchardist and chef
This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with homegrown ones, a particular joy in late February…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Uplifting Ujaama with Bonnetta Adeeb and Nathan Kleinman
Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox, many of us have seeds of spring and summer foods on our minds (and hearts). So, this week…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Love Stories of Abra Lee, Atlanta, GA
Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic apple orchards in…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
For the Love of Apples: The Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project
As February is upon us we turn from a love letter to biodiversity writ large to a labor of love in conserving the biodiversity of one iconic fruit in large…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Klamath Mountains, A Natural History, Michael Kauffman & Justin Garwood
This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023 by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region and the importance of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Yurok Tribe's Revegetation Planning for the Undamming of the Klamath River
Seen in the overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations have made clear, it…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
A Voice for Plants: The California Native Plant Society & 30 x 30 conservation goals
This week we continue our multi-part series on the many facets of the global 30 x 30 conservation efforts as they continue across the state of California as…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Conserving Biodiversity & Habitat 30 x 30, with Jennifer Norris
Welcome, 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, state, and local conservation efforts…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Garden Masterclass - calling all gardeners: Annie Guilfoyle & Noel Kingsbury
As we look out over a new garden year this week, a conversation to help us meet our garden learning goals. Award-winning designers, writers, educators, and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
What it means to be a gardener, community-based restoration ecology, Cris Sarabia
Cris Sarabia is the conservation director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. He is also a dedicated and active member of many local land and…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenA Winter Solstice offering: The Marginalian in the garden, with Maria Popova
This week, a pre-Solstice offering for Cultivating Place listeners! Maria Popova is the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Learning from gardeners -past with Judith Tankard, Landscape Historian
This week – we visit and learn from gardeners' past as we look to the future in conversation with Judith Tankard, a landscape historian, author, and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Befriending our sites with The Garden Refresh in conversation with Kier Holmes
Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer regularly contributing to the likes of Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Gardenista, Sonoma Magazine, Marin…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Thankful: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, Rebecca Schiller
Dear All, Rebecca Schiller is a gardener, a smallholding steward, an activist, and author of: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, A Memoir of Coming Home to My…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Healing, Gratitude & Connection with Zephrine Hanson, Hampden Farms Denver, CO
In this week after Veterans Day here in the U.S, and in this season clarifying that gratitude is one of the greatest gifts of the garden and the growing world…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Foregrounding Plants: The Arnold Arboretum celebrates 150
In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of the year—when our charismatic woody megaflora of the Northern Hemisphere—the trees—are chorophylling down…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The evolving public garden with members of the horticultural team at Filoli Historic House & Garden
Settling into November now, this week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with three members of the horticultural team at Filoli, a historic house and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
10.27.22 Nowness & The Senescent Season- Louesa Roebuck
Approaching All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween, Samhain, and Day of the Dead, we are entering into the season of gratitude - running from now through the Winter…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Gardening with American Roots, Nick and Allison McCullough
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with fall/winter planning and planting, this time with a focus on design, in conversation with Nick and Allison…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Trophic Cascades with poet & gardener Camille Dungy, BEST OF
As another offering to all of you in this Autumnal planting and planning period, a revisit and reminder of the poetics involved as well as the pragmatics, in…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Proportionality: The Northeast Native Plant Primer, with Uli Lorimer
As we look to our fall and winter planting and planning windows, this week, Cultivating Place is back in conversation with Uli Lorimer, native plantsman and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Seed season & Bioregional seed sense with Stacey Denton of Flora Farm & Design Studio
This first full week of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere – looking toward the month of October and its many harvest celebrations, we look to our seeds – the…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Regeneration with the intention of deep joy and fun, Farmer Rishi
This week on Cultivating Place, we look at culture and ecology with Farmer Rishi. Rishi is a farmer/gardener, teacher, thinker, and lover of life-based in…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
From the steppe plants of the world to better urban landscapes for the world, Anna Andreyeva
Anna Andreyeva is a Russian-born UK- based garden designer, plantswoman, and mother. She is currently pursuing a horticultural and ecological research Ph.D…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenRaise em' right: plant & human community at Barton Springs Nursery Austin, Texas
If you ask me, the independent nurseries and growers of our world – especially those focused on helping us as gardeners create not only beautiful gardens but…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Digging deep and garden sparks in Austin, with Texas gardener Pam Penick
Pam Penick is the gardener behind the well-known long-time garden blog known as Diggi ng. Based in Austin, Texas, Pam is an avid and audacious gardener and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Transforming lawns into meadows of life, with Owen Wormser: BEST OF CP
Still in the Dog Days of Summer - the heat it hot, the days are long, and garden maintenance in the form of watering, weeding, and perhaps mowing and blowing…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Prairie Gardener's Go To Guides, with Calgary gardener Janet Melrose
In our ongoing exploration of where gardeners are and what they are doing in our world right now, we head pretty far north on Cultivating Place this week in…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Test Plot, a celebration of labor & community-based ecological restoration, w/Jen Toy & Jenny Jones
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re in conversation with Jenny Jones and Jen Toy. They are gardeners, landscape architects, and caring humans who are taking…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Best of Cultivating Place: 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…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The History & Importance of Summer Tomatoes - South Jersey Style, Jeff Quattrone
It’s the height of warm season crops in our gardens here in the Northern Hemisphere, and this week Cultivating Place is joined by Jeff Quattrone – graphic…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Connection & Diversity from a Landscape Perspective, Cheetah Tchudi of Turkeytail Farm
It’s the height of summer farmers' markets as community hubs, and this week we're in conversation with Cheetah Tchudi co-founder with his wife Sami and his…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati w/Executive Director Karen Kahle
In a month where there is a lot of talk about what it means to be a citizen of this country – this world even – this week we follow last week’s urban garden…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Preservation and transformation: San Francisco's Greenhouse Project, with Caitlyn Galloway
San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing on it. This week…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Generosity & Mutual Care of Seeds: W/Ken Greene, co-founder of Hudson Valley Seed Company
K joins Cultivating Place this week to delve into the long view and deep relationships born of the generosity of seed – and seed people - in our garden lives…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
National Pollinator Week, Summer Solstice & Urban Pollination Ecology with Dr. Monika Egerer
It is really and truly summer now Happy Summer Solstice Season in the Northern Hemisphere. Are your gardens and parks full of the sound and movements of winged…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
BLACK FLORA, with Teri Speight in Honor of JUNETEENTH
Teresa J Speight is a Washington DC-based gardener, garden historian, and podcaster under the name of Cottage in the Court. Teri’s new book out from Bloom!…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
LONG LIVE LOVE FOUNDATION'S Serenity & Healing Garden in Oakland, CA
This week we consider the idea of mental health and our gardens from an even more poignant perspective. In the wake of the recent Uvalde and then Oklahoma gun…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Well-Gardened Mind, with Sue Stuart-Smith, BEST OF
I think it’s nearly impossible to try and stay abreast of current events, and not simultaneously need to remind ourselves to care for our individual mental…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Power of local garden Knowledge: In The Coastal Garden, Lyons Filmer & Susan Hayes
As summer arrives, more than 1 million US households are now engaged in gardening – a number that is double what it was before the pandemic. This week we focus…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Magical Botanicals of Flora Forager, with Bridget Beth Collins
IN the spirit of May, this week we’re headed out in the garden, or down the block, or up the trail for some planty wonder and magic in the company of Bridget…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Getting GardenFit, with Madeline Hooper and Jeff Hughes
Any gardener and their muscles, bones, joints, and ligaments know that gardening is a full-contact sport (or religion), this week we’re joined by Madeline de…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
In Honor of Mother's Day - Theodora Park, Charleston, SC with David Rawle
David Rawle is the founder and force (with contribution and support from his wife, Carol Perkins, and a wide variety of community members in Charleston, SC)…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Color in & Out of the Garden, Watercolor Practices for Painters, Gardeners, & Nature Lovers
In preparation for May and Mother’s Day here in the US, we’re in conversation with Lorene Edwards Forkner, a gardener, a writer, a cook, a mother, a daughter…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Earth Day- Parks for the Nature of Everyone, Olmsted200
In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week, Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the idea, design, and…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Indian Edit, with Nitasha Manchanda
Nitasha Manchanda is a genetic scientist, a mother, a wife, a gardener and the creator and host of a podcast series entitled The Indian Edit – exploring the…