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GARDENER GROWING: UPROOTED, WITH PAGE DICKEY
Page Dickey is a gardener, garden designer, author and editor of many notable garden books, and the co-founder of the Garden...
Feb 25, 2021


TO THE FOREST: MIDORI SHINTANI, DAN PEARSON & THE TOKACHI MILLENNIUM FOREST
As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Japan to celebrate an amazing project known as The Tokachi Millennium Forest. Dan...
Feb 18, 2021


LUNAR NEW YEAR, with TAWAINESE AMERICAN PLANTSMAN ERIC HSU
In honor of Lunar New Year which begins with the new moon on February 12th and lasts until the next full moon arrives at the end of the...
Feb 11, 2021


MAKING A LIFE, BY HAND, with MELANIE FALICK, BEST OF
Hey – Ok I had to jump in this week to say this: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to CULITVATING PLACE – we are 5 years old this month. With more than 300...
Feb 5, 2021


TU B'SHEVAT, NEW YEAR OF THE TREES, KAREN FLOTTE
This week we lean into the spirit of the season and the traditional Jewish festival Tu B’Shevat, or New Year of the Trees, in...
Jan 28, 2021


BIG IDEAS & PUBLIC GARDENS, MARYLYNN MACK, SOUTH COAST BOTANIC GARDEN
MaryLynn Mack is a renaissance woman and leading voice in the world of public gardens today. After beginning her career in the Navy, her...
Jan 21, 2021


HOMEGROWN HOPE, with DOUG TALLAMY of 'NATURE'S BEST HOPE'
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our FRESH STARTS series in conversation with a long established friend in the gardening...
Jan 14, 2021


GARDEN FUTURE FORWARD, THE BOTANIC GARDEN AT SMITH COLLEGE
To kick off this new year, Cultivating Place offers out the first in what will be an ongoing and intermittent series exploring Fresh...
Jan 7, 2021


GARDENING OUT LOUD: DURON CHAVIS
In honor of the losses, loves, griefs, gains, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we...
Dec 31, 2020


GOOD MEDICINE, with SAYAKA LEAN, THE HERB PHARM
The Herb Pharm is committed to educating about safe and effective herbalism. Based in Williams, Oregon, their work includes an extensive...
Dec 24, 2020


IMAGINE: A CONVERSATION WITH FARMER/FLORIST/DAUGHTER, AMBER TAMM
In honor of the Solstice on December 21st and the important pivot in seasonal time that it represents, rest, dark, and dormancy in the...
Dec 17, 2020


SOMETHING WILD & COMPOSED FOR WINTER, with HORT & POTT
This week, as tend toward the winter solstice, we continue our exploration of garden and seasonally based winter cheer here in the...
Dec 10, 2020


A HANDFUL OF FORTITUDE & GRATITUDE, TERESA SABANKAYA
In a year in which gardeners and other humans alike are having to meet and process and pivot around and over and beyond a wide variety of...
Dec 3, 2020


SEED SEASON- HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: REVISITING CLARE FOSTER & GROWING FLOWERS FROM SEED
In this last week of October 2020, as a nod to faith and a vote for the future growing seasons, Cultivating Place kicks off a multipart...
Oct 29, 2020


BEAUTY & BALANCE: GARDENS OF THE HIGH DESERT, JUDITH PHILLIPS
Judith Phillips is a renowned landscape designer, founder and principle of Design Oasis, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the past...
Oct 22, 2020


VIRIDITAS & ATTACHMENT GARDENING with SUE STUART-SMITH
When it comes to creativity – mother nature and the human brain are both pretty good. For Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Sue Stuart...
Oct 15, 2020


ON CREATIVITY: LIFE IN THE STUDIO (& GARDEN) with FRANCES PALMER
This week we kick off October with a dive into creativity – the way gardeners harness it, riff off it, and share its results forward with...
Oct 1, 2020


TRUSTING THE NATURE OF OUR GARDENS & SELVES, Camilla Jørvad
Camilla Jørvad is a photographer, a gardener, a mental health and re-wilding-habitat-gardening advocate based on the Danish Island of...
Sep 24, 2020


FOR THE LOVE OF PLANTS, with HORTICULTURIST WAMBUI IPPOLITO
Wambui Ippolito loves plants – she has loved them since she was a young girl with strong land-and plant based family history going back...
Sep 17, 2020


SCULPTURA BOTANICA (THE ART OF THE GARDEN) with DUSTIN GIMBEL
I wanted to pop in quick here to give you the mid=sept update on our listener support challenge underway. We set ourselves the goal of...
Sep 10, 2020
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