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THE NATURE PLACE–LA CROSSE, WI, with REBECCA SCHWARZ & PAIGE MANGES
This week we’re getting back to nature for summer camp: ALL ages invited. We’re in conversation with Rebecca Schwarz and Paige Manges of...
Jul 17


MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT MAGIC, with LEIGH ANN HENION
Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder–someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible...
Jun 19


GETTING TO KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS: PREPARING FOR POLLINATOR WEEK with COLORADO'S PPAN
Every year since 2007 when the US Senate passed sanctions declaring it, the third week of June is celebrated as National Pollinator Week....
Jun 12


FOR THE LOVE OF SOIL, START WITH SOIL: JULIET SARGEANT
Juliet Sargeant is an award-winning English garden designer who blends beauty with purpose in every space she creates. Juliet’s unique...
Apr 24


ROAD TO REINVENTION: FROM BANKER TO PUBLIC HORTICULTURE IDEA LEADER, MAE LIN PLUMMER
This week, guest host Abra Lee is chatting with Mae Lin Plummer, Director, IDEA Center for Public Gardens at the Denver Botanic Gardens...
Mar 27


SPRING EQUINOX SPECIAL - PRACTICING RE-ENCHANTMENT: ENCOUNTERING DRAGONFLIES, with BROOKE WILLIAMS
Happy Spring Equinox! To welcome Spring — especially this exact Spring in the US — practicing re-enchantment in our world seemed exactly...
Mar 20


LIFE IS BIG: TO BE A POET GARDENER, TESS TAYLOR
Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the...
Mar 13


THE COLLECTIVE & THE SEED FARMER, DAN BRISEBOIS OF TOURNE-SOL COOPERATIVE FARM, CANADA
This week – in the wind, rain, snow, and fires of early 2025 so far – it is good to be able to focus on SEEDs this week. Seeds remind us...
Jan 16


RESOLUTION SUPPORT: THE 5-MINUTE GARDENER with NICOLE BURKE, GARDENER
Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week is all about gardening even...
Jan 9


ARBOREAL OBSESSION & GROWING THE WORLD: THE TREE COLLECTORS, with AMY STEWART
Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of things like pots, books, seeds, and of course plants. Some collect flowers, or herbs,...
Dec 12, 2024


LONGWOOD REIMAGINED, with CEO AND PUBLIC GARDEN LEADER, PAUL REDMAN
This week, when many in the US have time off with family and friends, we note our gratitude for our many teachers: the plants and the...
Nov 28, 2024


ALL FLOURISHING IS MUTUAL: ROBIN WALL KIMMERER (BEST OF)
In this week's best of conversation, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that All flourishing is mutual.
Nov 21, 2024


ALL THE WILD RHYTHMS: WILD PLANT CULTURE with JARED ROSENBAUM
Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring...
Oct 17, 2024


CP LIVE with GOLDEN STATE LINEN (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHICO FLAX)
This week we’re so excited to air the first listen to one of our CP LIVE conversations, recorded live in front of an audience on the home...
Oct 10, 2024


THE FIELD GUIDES AMONG US, DR. ALAN WEAKLEY, DIRECTOR, UNC CHAPEL HILL HERBARIUM
Dr. Alan Weakley is a career-long botanist and conservation biologist firmly rooted in the southeast region of the U.S. For a little...
Sep 26, 2024


BACK TO SCHOOL - WITH PLANTS: SEAN DOHERTY, VP OF EDUCATION, MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN
(IMAGES: top MOBOT Orangery.JJEWELL; MOBOT in spring with sculpture.JJEWELL; Sean, Daria McKelvey, Supervisor - Home Gardening...
Aug 15, 2024


SHROUDED IN LIGHT, WHAT OUR NATIVE SHRUBLANDS CAN TEACH OUR GARDENS, with KEVIN PHILIP WILLIAMS & MICHAEL GUIDI
Late July, August, and September (with the constellation Sirius high in the night sky) is perhaps the stretch of the year in most...
Aug 8, 2024


THE BOTANICAL JOURNEY & LEXICON OF A CARING PLANTSPERSON, with TIM JOHNSON, NATIVE PLANT TRUST
Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and garden worlds on both personal and professional levels. Having worked with Seed Savers...
Aug 1, 2024


TREES ARE BRIDGES TO THE SKY: A POETRY OF PLACE & PEACE, 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...
Jul 11, 2024


GOOD CITIZENSHIP = GREAT 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...
Jul 4, 2024
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