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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 Garden
Cultivating Place: Land On Fire – A Conversation With Ecologist And Author Gary Ferguson
Late summer is fire season in the American West. A part of life. This week Cultivating Place speaks with Gary Ferguson, author of "Land on Fire: The New…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Big Dreams, Small Garden – A Conversation With Marianne Willburn
In my experience, no home and garden are just perfect. And yet, they are just right if we bring the right perspective. Author and gardener Marianne Willburn…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden – Emily Wilkins, Seattle, WA
This week on Cultivating Place we hear the next in our series of Dispatches from the Home Garden, this time from a north Seattle neighborhood where artist…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Jinny Blom – The Thoughtful Gardener
This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Uk based garden designer Jinny Blom, whose new book is entitled “The Thoughtful Gardener: an intelligent…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: A Wide-Angle Garden Design Education with Katharine Webster
There's something to be said for having deep and historic roots to one region – one gardening and natural history home. I have an admiration for gardeners…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: The Wild Ornamental Buckwheats!
In life, there are generalists and there are specialists. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re speaking with botanist Dr. Ben Grady about his work with…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: 'Natural Selection' - A Conversation With Dan Pearson
It is full on summer. Perhaps you are in the very middle of summer holidays here at mid-July. If you are like me, there is a special anticipation to the books…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Cultivating America's Gardens - Smithsonian Gardens
Over the past year of Cultivating Place interviews, we’ve heard references to the importance of the Smithsonian Gardens archives for the research of such…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Gardening Under Australian Skies, A Conversation With Home Gardener Pen Pender
This week on Cultivating Place, a conversation with a home gardener who has moved not just gardens, but continents and hemispheres. As we just reached the…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Revisiting The Cut Flower Garden Ahead Of American Flowers Week
Next week – June 28 to July 4 – our country is celebrating American Flowers Week, celebrating American-grown flowers in 50 states. In celebration, Debra…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From the Home Garden – A Father-Daughter Garden Heritage Story
In our last Cultivating Place "Dispatches from the Home Garden," we heard from a young gardener experiencing her first garden dislocation/relocation in…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: An Edible Feast – Edible Communities Publications Turns 15
This week on Cultivating Place we hear the story of the first 15 years of the Edible Communities – the umbrella name of the many publishers who bring you the…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden – Urban Homesteading And A Garden Journey
Gardening is a specifically human endeavor. It is a characterizing feature of our species, fairly well documented throughout our evolution. Which fascinates…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Elevated – Gardens Of The High Line, With Landscape Designer Rick Darke
What do we mean when we use the word “wild” and why does it matter? In 2017, the New York City urban landscape commonly known as The High Line celebrates its…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Paying Love’s Celebrations Forward, With Floral Designer Melinda Benson-Valavanis
Melinda Benson-Valavanis is a floral designer and owner of MCreations in Chico, CA. She recently committed her business to participating in a project called…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: 'Heaven Is A Garden' And 'The Spirit Of Stone' With Author Jan Johnsen
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Jan Johnsen – a gardener, landscape designer and author of the books "Heaven is a Garden" and "The Spirit of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Earth Wisdom – John Muir, The Accidental Taoist – With Author Raymond Barnett
Spring is a time of awakening and full sensory immersion in the world around us - even if we aren’t gardeners or nature lovers. It is hard to avoid, ignore or…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Energetic – The Dynamics Of Biodynamics At Fern Verrow Farm
Close to 21 years ago, a Cordon Bleu trained chef and business woman named Jane Scotter left a busy city life in London and bought a farm. She was joined not…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: California Native Plant Week – A Conversation With Dennis Mudd, Calscape
It is California Native Plant Week this week. Officially designated by the California Native Plant Society in 2010, this year the festivities and educational…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: 'Useful, With A Pleasant Degree Of Humor" – The Old Farmer's Almanac Turns 225
“Useful, with a pleasant degree of humor” — that is the tag line for the Old Farmer’s Almanac, an annual handbook for American growers, farmers and gardeners —…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: The Garden Conservancy’s 2017 Open Days Directory, With Laura Wilson
If you’re like me, you love getting out into your own garden, but visiting someone else’s garden is almost as good — there’s just less weeding required. The…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: 'The Chinese Kitchen Garden' With Wendy Kiang-Spray
Gardenways and "The Chinese Kitchen Garden" - a conversation with gardener and author, Wendy Kiang-Spray I am fairly accustomed to hearing the phrases “folk…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Harvest – Stefani Bittner, Alethea Harampolis
Sometimes when you use the word garden – people immediately conjure up images of the ornamental perennial border, other people however conjure up colorful…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: The Irish Garden With Fionnuala Fallon, Correspondent For The Irish Times
It is the eve of St. Patrick’s Day and it does seem that even if you’re not Irish per se, St. Patrick’s Day brings out a little bit of Irish in us all. And…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden – Christin Geall, Victoria, BC
Every garden has a story as does every gardener. In our next in the occasional series of Dispatches From the Home Garden, today we travel to the Pacific…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: 'The Cut Flower Farm' – Erin Benzakein And The Flower Farmer Revolution
There is a flower farming revolution sweeping across our country and I for one am all for it. A few months back, Cultivating Place was joined by Debra…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Presentation Is Everything—The Garden-Based Pottery Of Artist Frances Palmer
As gardeners or naturalists, we often share an urge to display our love – flowers or fruits of the season arranged in bottles and vases, in bowls and on…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: The Roses Have It - Early Spring Rose Care And Rose Societies With Jolene Adams
Late winter early spring might be kind of quiet in the garden in terms of flowers, but it is very busy in terms of plant care – especially in the care of…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden #1 - Christl Findling
Have you ever noticed how every garden has a story? No matter how many gardeners might have worked that spot: just 2 - for instance mother nature AND you, or…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: The Nature Fix - How Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier And More Creative
“Anyone who’s gazed at the moon or stood still in a magnificent stand of trees knows what it’s like to experience the Power of Awe – it seems to slow time…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Digging Deep - Fran Sorin
Digging deep: this is a phrase that has a wide variety of meanings and uses – both literal and figurative — in the garden, and in the body, mind and heart. In…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Eliot Coleman And 'The Four-Season Harvest'
It is mid-January. It is deep mid-winter, even in my relatively mild USDA zone 9, Sunset zone 8. While I am fortunate enough to have a year-round Saturday…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: River Partners
As a celebration of the many ways that one’s cultivation of place can benefit not only the individual cultivator – gardener or naturalist – this week on…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Sunset Western Garden Test Gardens With Editor Johanna Silver
Happy New Year! For over 100 years Sunset magazine has been inspiring gardens and gardeners in the American West. This year marks the first full year for…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Heidrun Sparkling Mead
There is something inherently satisfying about a full circle – a completion – a beginning brought to its fullness and coming to its natural end, which leads…
- Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden
Cultivating Place: Michael Kauffmann, Founder And Editor Of Backcountry Press
In this season of the winter solstice — marked by the beauty and appreciative contemplation that mark the celebrations of winter holidays the world around, I…