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A NATURAL HISTORY OF LOVE & LOSS - LATE MIGRATIONS with MARGARET RENKL
"Loss is the shadow side of love, and grief is its own twin" – so writes Margaret Renkl in her human and moving memoir of place, plants,...
Sep 26, 2019


RESTORING THE LAND, RESTORING FAMILY & SANITY - THE DEER CAMP, with DEAN KUIPERS
We have spoken many times on Cultivating Place about the ways in which our places are in fact beloved and cared for members of our...
Sep 19, 2019


AT HOME WITH PLANTS, BAYLOR CHAPMAN of LILA B DESIGN
Baylor Chapman loves plants and she’s spent a good part of her career helping people to learn about, see, love and care for plants...
Sep 12, 2019


IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE, and other THOUGHTS ON RESILIENCE, DR. LAUREN E. OAKES
Here in my part of the world, it’s back to school time! Lower schools, high school and university students, faculty and staff are shaking...
Sep 5, 2019


BEST OF: TO BE A SEED KEEPER: ROWEN WHITE, SIERRA SEEDS
As we head into the month of the September, and we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox later in the month, I am reminded of this being one...
Aug 30, 2019


HIGH GROUND: PENSTEMONS & OTHER ALPINE PLANTS, MIKE KINTGEN, CURATOR OF ALPINE PLANTS, DENVER BO
"Alpine plants are very cute - deep down they remind of the beautiful mountain habitats that they live in. Even on a day when I haven’t...
Aug 22, 2019


THE GARDEN AS CRUCIBLE & PLANTING RAINBOWS, with MEG HERNDON AND SANDRA NAM CIOFFI
"a home is a very special place and, as we both have come to learn, how to nurture it - to literally build it and then feed the children...
Aug 15, 2019


WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: WILD YARDS PROJECT, DAVID NEWSOM
“the minute our daughter was born, I suddenly became aware of this howling urban center that’s just 70 feet from my house, and the lack...
Aug 8, 2019


READING THE LANDSCAPE with COURTNEY ALLEN, NATIVE PLANT TRUST
This week we kick off a multi-episode series looking at the work of native plant organizations and gardeners on the ground and around the...
Aug 1, 2019


TO BE A PLACEMAKER with CHRISTIE PURIFOY
What does it mean to be a placemaker – what is learned, what is lost, what is gained in the making of any place. Today we consider the...
Jul 26, 2019


PLANTING YOUR TRUTH with ABRA LEE, PUBLIC HORTICULTURIST
Abra Lee to date has had an 18 year career in horticulture - a County Extension Agent with the University of Georgia, former...
Jul 18, 2019


ON POSH COW PARSLEY & OTHER ADVENTURES IN GROWING FLOWERS FROM SEED with the UK's CLARE FOST
There are few things so affirming as growing plants from seed, but this is also a gardening skill and activity that can be shrouded in...
Jul 12, 2019


ROBIN WALL KIMMERER: ON GARDENING AND CITIZENSHIP
On this Fourth of July – I'm honored to be in conversation with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous...
Jul 5, 2019


A GARDEN CAN BE ANYWHERE, with LAURI KRANZ, EDIBLE GARDENS LA
Lauri Kranz is known in her circle of friends and fellow gardeners of Southern California as 'Gardening Lauri' - her work under the name...
Jun 27, 2019


A FATHER-DAUGHTER CONVERSATION: HORTICULTURE & LEGACY, ROBERT & CATHERINE HANSS
Robert Hanss and his daughter Catherine are a father-daughter duo in the Northeast working together to create and care for gardens and...
Jun 20, 2019


FOR THE LOVE OF (BUG) LIFE, ENTOMOLOGIST NADIA RUFFIN
Nadia Ruffin, MS, is an entomologist, gardener and educator. She is the founder of Agricademy Inc, Quiwi Produce, and Urban Farm Sista...
Jun 13, 2019


BEST OF: LEAH PENNIMAN on SOUL FIRE FARM & FARMING WHILE BLACK
LEAH PENNIMAN on SOUL FIRE FARM & FARMING WHILE BLACK LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Last week we heard from nationally renowned gardener Margaret...
Jun 8, 2019


A WAY TO GARDEN, with MARGARET ROACH
For many plant and garden lovers, Margaret Roach will need no introduction, but for those who might be meeting her for the first time -...
May 30, 2019


HAPPY WANDERING - THE JOURNEY OF PLANTSMAN BOB HYLAND
In a variation on the Dispatches from the Home Garden series, this week we enjoy a Dispatches from the Home Gardener and plantsperson....
May 23, 2019


GREEN UP: THE GREENEST BLOCK IN BROOKLYN - GARDENS AS COMMUNITY ACTIVISM with THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC G
The Greenest Block in Brooklyn is a friendly competition among streets and neighborhood blocks in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn....
May 16, 2019
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