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DIGGING DEEP & GARDEN SPARKS, with AUSTIN, TX GARDENER, PAM PENICK
All photos courtesy of Pam Penick, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. Pam Penick is the gardener/writer behind the...
Sep 1, 2022
THE PRAIRIE GARDENER GO-TO GUIDES, with CANADIAN GARDENER JANET MELROSE
In our ongoing exploration of where gardeners are and what they are doing in our world right now, I am very pleased to head pretty far...
Aug 18, 2022
TEST PLOT FOR A COMMUNITY-BASED LAND STEWARDSHIP ETHIC, with 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...
Aug 11, 2022
BEST OF: ADVENTUROUS DESIGN & CIVILIZATION BUILDING, DAVID GODSHALL, TERREMOTO LA
The Dog Days of Summer call for a reprisal - please enjoy this week's revisit of our conversation with David Godshall! David Godshall is...
Aug 4, 2022
THE HISTORY & IMPORTANCE OF SUMMER TOMATOES, SOUTH JERSEY STYLE, HEIRLOOM ACTIVIST 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...
Jul 28, 2022
CONNECTION & DIVERSITY FROM A LAND 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...
Jul 21, 2022
THE CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI (80 years and growing), KAREN KAHLE
The Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati – 80 years of great growing, a conversation with Executive Director Karen Kahle (below is a...
Jul 14, 2022
PRESERVATION & TRANSFORMATION: SAN FRANCISCO'S GREENHOUSE PROJECT, w/ 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...
Jul 7, 2022
THE GENEROSITY & MUTUAL CARE OF SEEDS: KEN GREENE OF HUDSON VALLEY SEED COMPANY
Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first...
Jun 30, 2022
NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK & POLLINATION ECOLOGY with DR. MONIKA EGERER
It is really and truly summer now. Are your gardens and parks full of the sound, movements, and magic of winged life – the fluttering of...
Jun 23, 2022
BLACK FLORA with TERI SPEIGHT, IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH
In preparation for Juneteenth, we’re in conversation with a Washington DC -based gardener, garden historian and podcaster under the name...
Jun 16, 2022
LONG LIVE LOVE FOUNDATION & THEIR SERENITY HEALING GARDEN
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...
Jun 9, 2022
THE POWER OF LOCAL GARDEN KNOWLEDGE: IN THE COASTAL GARDEN, with LYONS FILMER & SUSAN HAYES
This Cultivating Place program is dedicated to two plantspeople in my region who have now passed to the great gardens and trails beyond....
May 26, 2022
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 plant-y wonder and magic in...
May 19, 2022
GETTING GARDENFIT FOR LIFELONG GARDENING, WITH MADELINE HOOPER & JEFF HUGHES
In the interest of maintaining my own lifelong love of gardening until the very very last moment possible, and all of you gardeners out...
May 12, 2022
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
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