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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 GardenOn FLOWERS with Amy Merrick
Since time immemorial flowers have accompanied humans on our journeys – this week Cultivating Place welcomes the divine Amy Merrick, writer, florist…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenThe Scentual Garden, Ken Druse
Ken Druse is a gardener and garden writer. This week on Cultivating Place Ken joins us to explore and revel in the scented Side of the garden - the topic of…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenIn Search Of The Canary Tree, And Other Thoughts On Resilience BEST OF
Dr. Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation and adaptation scientist working to model and communicate how people can adapt at local levels to the GLOBAL climate…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenUnabashed 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…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenTalking About A Revolution, A Foodscape Revolution With Brie Arthur
This week – heading swiftly into the winter holiday season good food cooking and baking and communing – Cultivating Place is joined by grow-your-own…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenAll The Herbs, With Sue Goetz
This week we’re settling into the flavors of the Autumn season – and the seasonings we turn to in cooler weather - headed toward the tastes of the winter…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenFirescaping, With Butte Fire Safe Council And Douglas Kent, Author
In honor of the one year anniversary of the Camp Fire, Cultivating Place is joined this week by Douglas Kent, author of Firescaping, and Calli-Jane DeAnda and…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenMastering The Art Of Being A Plantsman, With Matt Mattus
From his "Growing with Plants” blog to his first book "Mastering the Art of Vegetable Growing”, which he researched, photographed and wrote – plantsman Matt…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenGarden Cartography - Misti Little, The Garden Path Podcast
Misti Little is an environmental consultant working in GIS services. As a naturalist, gardener, explorer and fellow garden audio producer, she (and her garden)…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenCultivating A Gardening Culture - With Home Gardener Tucker Fitzpatrick
Tucker Fitzpatrick is a home gardener who thinks a lot about how cultural norms and biases directly impact how and why we garden in interesting ways. A father…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenBEST OF: Daring to be Wild - We ARE The Ark - with Irish Plantswoman, Mary Reynolds
Irish plantswoman Mary Reynolds has cultivated a deep love of her place in the mountains of Wicklow, Ireland - in all its complexity and mystery. As a…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenConsidering Our Gardens From The Inside Out - The First Next Room With Architect David Abelow
This week Cultivating Place is joined by award winning architect David Abelow. David asks us look at our gardens from the inside out and his exploration of our…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenA Natural History of Love & Loss: Late Migrations With Margaret Renkl
"Loss is the twin of love" – so writes Margaret Renkl in her human and moving memoir of place, plants, people and life entitled "Late Migrations – A Natural…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenRestoring The Land, Restoring A Family - Dean Kuipers On The Deer Camp
Dean Kuipers has studied and written about the field of environmental politics and the human-nature relationship for decades. His most recent book "The Deer…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenAt Home - With Plants, With Baylor Chapman, Lila B Design
Baylor Chapman loves plants and she’s spent a good part of her career helping people to learn about, see, love and care for plants wherever people might need…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenIn Search of the Canary Tree, and other Thoughts on Resilience with Dr. Lauren E. Oakes
Dr. Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation and adaptation scientist working to model and communicate how people can adapt at local levels to the GLOBAL climate…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenBEST OF CP: TO BE A SEED KEEPER, Rowen White
As we head into the month of September, and we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox later in the month, I am reminded of this being one of the best seed seasons in…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenHigh Ground: Penstemons & Other Alpine Plants, Mike Kintgen, Curator at Denver Botanic Gardens
Alpine and Steppe plants are uniquely interesting individuals and communities of plants that thrive in extreme conditions of high elevations and dry locations…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenPlant Me A Rainbow, Meg Herndon And Sandra Nam Cioffi
On Cultivating Place this week, we speak with two Landscape Architects who came together to create and offer out to the gardening world beautiful, functional…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenWhere The Wild Things Are: The Wild Yards Project, With David Newsom
David Newsom is a filmmaker, storyteller, and outdoorsman. But when his daughter was born he realized he wanted to bring her butterflies, bees and all the rich…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenReading A Landscape, Courtney Allen Of The Native Plant Trust
This week we dive deep into a conversation on being more observant in our places with historic preservationist Courtney Allen, Director of Public Programs at…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenTO BE A PLACEMAKER With Gardener And Spiritual Memoirist Christie Purifoy
As gardeners we are many things, among these we are place makers. What does it mean to be a placemaker – what is learned, what is lost, what is gained in the…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenPLANTING YOUR TRUTH with Horticulturist and Public Horticulture Leader in the Making, Abra Lee
Abra Lee is a public horticulture leader in the making. From rural roots in Georgia, to a passion for pop music and style, she sees the interweaving of…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenOn Posh Cow Parsley & Other Adventures In Growing Flowers From Seed, Clare Foster
There are few things so affirming as growing plants from seed, this week on Cultivating Place, we talk about the adventures of growing flowers from seed with…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Robin Wall Kimmerer On Gardening And Citizenship
On this Fourth of July – Cultivating Place is pleased to be in conversation with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenA Garden Can Be Anywhere, With Lauri Kranz Of Edible Gardens LA + More
As summer heats us up and slows us down, the garden and in particular the edible garden is front and center. This week Cultivating Place is joined by Lauri…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenA Father Daughter Horticultural Conversation with Robert & Catherine Hanss
Robert Hanss and his daughter Catherine are a father-daughter duo in the Northeast working together to create and care for gardens and horticulture traditions…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenFOR THE LOVE OF BUGS with Entomologist, Gardener and Educator 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…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenBest Of: Soul Fire Farm - Committed To Ending Racism In The Food System
Soul Fire Farm is a working farm in upstate New York. Co-founded by Leah Penniman, the farm and all its work is committed to ending racism and injustice in the…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenA Way To Garden - 21 Years Along, With Margaret Roach
For many gardeners, Margaret Roach will need no introduction. Longtime Garden Editor of Martha Stewart Living and Editorial Director of Martha Stewart Living…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
The Happy Wanderer: The Journey Story Of Plantsman Bob Hyland
In a variation on the Dispatches from the Home Garden series, this week we enjoy a Dispatches from the Home Gardener and Plantsperson. Self-described Happy…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenGREEN UP: Brooklyn Botanic Garden's The Greenest Block In Brooklyn!
The best public gardens are in fact community gardens at some level, this week on Cultivating Place we’re speaking with gardeners from New York City’s Borough…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenLIFE FORCE & MOTHER's DAY, Louesa Roebuck Of Foraged Flora
LIFE FORCE: In honor of mother’s day here in the US this coming weekend, we’re joined by artist, floral designer, textile designer and all around creative…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenTruth, Beauty, Chaos And Plants: THE PLANTHUNTER Australia
TRUTH, BEAUTY, CHAOS & PLANTS - May Day is upon us and we celebrate in conversation with Australian gardener and writer - Georgina Reid. Based in Australia…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenDaring To Be Wild - We ARE The Ark - With Irish Plantswoman, Mary Reynolds
Irish plantswoman Mary Reynolds has cultivated a deep love of her place in the mountains of Wicklow, Ireland - in all its complexity and mystery. As a…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Nature Gardens At The Natural History Museum of LA County
In our fifth episode in our five part series on our gardens as habitat and we gardeners as powerful land stewards and biodiversity protectors, we visit a…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenHummingbirds In Our Gardens, With Dr. Susan Wethington
Hummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creature of the Americas, the more than 350 species of which have coevolved with the flora of the Americas for…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenThe Migratory Bird Garden, The Shedd Aquarium, W/ Horticulturist Christine Nye
In this our third in a five part series, on our gardens as important habitat links for the wildlife of our regions we’re joined by Horticulturist Christine Nye…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenMonarchs And Milkweed - Our Gardens As Habitat Series Episode 2 of 5
In 2018, scientists reported dramatic losses in populations of one of North America’s most charismatic insects, the Monarch butterfly, with an estimated 14.8…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenThe Xerces Society & Their BEE CITY Initiative - Ep. 1 Of 5 Gardens As Healthy Habitat
The news goes from bad to worse when we’re talking about biodiversity, insect declines and habitat loss in our world. This week we kick off an all new…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenSpring Break Special: Kids At Play (Outside), With Amanda Thomsen & Nancy Striniste
Spring is right around the corner and Spring Break Season is here – have you been outside lately? Have you been outside to play? Our guests this week on…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenGather, Learn, Grown: The Garden Bloggers Fling
On Cultivating Place this week – we’re joined by Pam Penick of the garden blog Digging, and founder of the Garden Bloggers Fling, together with Judy Seaborn…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenFarming's Bright & Just Future - The NYFC With Lindsey Lusher Shute
Working to ensure a bright and just future for U.S. Agriculture – that’s the work of the The National Young Farmers coalition whose advocacy, trainings and…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenHortlandia: The Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, with Nancy Goldman
Home of the famed spring plant sale HORTLANDIA, The Hardy Plant Society of Oregon is a thriving community of gardeners and Hort Heads who offer year round…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenWave Hill And The Lifelong Learning Of Gardeners
Gardeners and naturalists are remarkably ardent self-directed, life-long learners and doers. And the winter season is well-adapted to gardeners’ continuing…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenThe Audacity Of Interconnecting With Plants: Tree, By Melina Sempill Watts
As an early Valentine to this garden life and plant loving community, Cultivating Place offers out a conversation with Melina Sempill Watts, author of Tree – a…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenFire Recovery Guide, With CNPS
Just three months since California’s November 2018 Fires made global headlines, the great winter greening of our state is underway and with it the urge to GROW…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenBest Of - The Danger Garden - Dispatches From The Home Garden With Loree Bohl
Danger Ahead: Home gardener and garden blogger Loree Bohl loves a garden with stand-out foliage and bold form. But pay attention - it can be dangerous out…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenFruit As The Currency Of Memory With Fruit Forager, Sara Bir
For Sara Bir – food librarian, forager, chef and author – fruit are sweet, delicious, sexy and tactile – but every bit as important – they among her currency…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenPlant-Colored Glasses: A Botanist's Life
Plants are all around us, and wherever there are plants, there are likely to be botanists at work trying to study, know and understand them better for us all…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenAn Exercise In Intimacy: Turning Into Flowers
As an exercise in intimacy for the New Year – this week on Cultivating Place, we visit an artistic and botanical project in South Africa known as Turning Into…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenFloral Tete A Tete Fun For The New Year
Some Floral tete a tete fun visits Cultivating Place this week just in time for the New Year. Josh Werber – founder of Floral Tete a Tete, a creative journey…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenRecalibrating Our Nervous Systems & Floral Artistry With Max Gill
Recalibrating our nervous systems and the art of seasonal, local floral design is what we’re exploring On CP this week with Max Gill, floral designer perhaps…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenWhen We Talk With Our Gardens: Ilene Flax, Dispatches From The Home Garden Inbox
In constant conversation with her home garden, our guest this week on Cultivating Place is committed to both the listening and the speaking roles. In this…
Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to GardenSeasonal Garden Book Round Up
Did you say you needed a good Garden Book Recommendation?! The holidays and end of year are upon us – and with them, all those lists. Things to do, food to…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Adaptation & Innovation - Abigail Willis & The Compendium Of Amazing Gardening
Do you ever stop to wonder where your garden tools came from? The history behind plant and garden trends or techniques? Gardens and garden history are microsms…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Wanderlust GardenLust: An Armchair Tour Of Some Of The World’s Best New Gardens
In the wake, and still the fury of the #CAMPFIRE here in Northern California - we lean into some escapism on this long weekend of the U.S. Thanksgiving…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Gratitude & Morning Altars BEST OF
This week on Cultivating Place, we revisit our Gratitude Special of last year - celebrating this season of harvest, of taking stock, of giving back, of deep…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
No Ghosts But A Good Story: The Asa Gray Garden Renovation At Mt. Auburn Cemetery
In this week after All Hallow eve, Day of the Dead, Samhain, All Saints Day, and All Soul’s day – I thought – let’s visit a garden for our ancestors. This week…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Soul Fire Farm – Ending Racism In The Food System
Soul Fire Farm is a working farm in upstate New York committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system, co-founded by Leah Penniman. Leah is also the…