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THEODORA PARK: CHARLESTON, SC with DAVID RAWLE (BEST OF)
This week, CP has a double-header of sorts (being baseball season you know), with some of our on-air stations in pledge drive. For these,...
May 5, 2022


COLOR IN & OUT OF THE GARDEN, LORENE EDWARDS FORKNER
In preparation for May and Mother’s Day here in the US, this week we’re in conversation with Lorene Edwards Forkner, a gardener, a...
Apr 28, 2022


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...
Apr 21, 2022


THE INDIAN EDIT - 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...
Apr 14, 2022


SAGING THE WORLD, PREPARING FOR CA NATIVE PLANT WEEK, ROSE RAMIREZ & DEBORAH SMALL
Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...
Apr 7, 2022


THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI
John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...
Mar 31, 2022


A SCIENTIST'S QUEST FOR NATURE'S NEXT MEDICINES, DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE
In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...
Mar 24, 2022


GROW NOW - OUR GARDENS AS CLIMATE ACTIVISM, EMILY MURPHY
Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her...
Mar 17, 2022


GARDENS BY & FOR REFUGEES: IRC's DENVER-BASE & REGENERATION NOW
This week, a timely and rich with agency conversation on gardens by and for refugee populations.Areti Athanasopoulos is a Denver,...
Mar 10, 2022


RESTORATIVE ECONOMICS: FLOWER HOUSE DETROIT + DETROIT BLACK FARMER LAND FUND
Having just completed Black History Month and just entered Women’s History Month, today - International Women's Day seemed like the...
Mar 3, 2022


WINTER GARDENS, WITH PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREW MONTGOMERY
Andrew Montgomery is a British-based garden photographer. His new book, Winter Gardens, celebrates the very specific beauty of the winter...
Feb 24, 2022


BIODIVERSITY MATTERS II: CONSERVING PLANT DIVERSITY
Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener...
Feb 17, 2022


BIODIVERSITY MATTERS: PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL, with CEO, IAN DUNN
Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants,...
Feb 10, 2022


COMING TO FRUITION, FRUITION SEEDS, PETRA PAGE-MANN
Petra Page-Mann is a green growing force. She is also co-founder with her husband Matthew Goldfarb (as well as with the many people and...
Feb 3, 2022


SEEDS FOR THE CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE, LARNER SEEDS, JUDITH LARNER LOWRY
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A...
Jan 27, 2022


THE PALESTINE HEIRLOOM SEED LIBRARY, VIVIEN SANSOUR: BEST OF
In this first month of the new year, I once again offer out the hope of Vivien Sansour's work and the hope of seeds – to bind us more...
Jan 20, 2022


JOHNNY'S SELECTED SEEDS with DAVE MELHORN, CEO & LAUREN GIROUX, PRODUCT SELECTION/TRIALING
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes...
Jan 13, 2022


THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON
To welcome the new year, we stay with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane...
Jan 6, 2022


BRAVE NEW SEED FOR A BRAVE NEW YEAR, with KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG
As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome to the year that will be, I am joined this week by seedperson and agent...
Dec 30, 2021


A CONSERVATION OF GENEROSITY & RELATIONSHIPS, GARY PAUL NABHAN
Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...
Dec 23, 2021
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