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GROWING (AND BUILDING) EMPOWERMENT: FRAILTY MYTHS, ERINN CARTER & GEORGIA FAYE HIRSTY
"Frailty Myths offers workshops for women, trans, and gender non-conforming folks that provide a transformative experience through our...
Jan 23, 2020
EMILY DICKINSON'S GARDENING LIFE, with AUTHOR MARTA MCDOWELL
Emily Dickinson was a gardener. She was also an iconic poet, and this week we enjoy a conversation with Marta McDowell to hear more about...
Jan 16, 2020
(GARDEN) NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL: WASHINGTON GARDENER MAGAZINE, with KATHY JENTZ
A lot of news comes out of Washington DC at most times, and this year looks to offer even more. But we’re visiting the MidAtlantic belt...
Jan 9, 2020
CONSIDER THE LILIES, NATURALIST & EDUCATOR JOE JOE CLARK
As we ring in the New Year of this New Decade with the power of 2020 ours for the making, this week Cultivating Place welcomes gardener,...
Jan 3, 2020
SEEDLINGS: THE GROWING POWER OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
With what we put into our heads – with words, tones of voice, visualizations verbally painted, melodic mnemonics deployed - we learn the...
Dec 26, 2019
ON FLOWERS with AMY MERRICK
In a few short days the Northern Hemisphere will celebrate the Winter Solstice, that moment in the planetary position when the North Pole...
Dec 19, 2019
THE SCENTUAL GARDEN, KEN DRUSE
Scentual - hmmm. A good and evocative word, right? Today we are talking all things fragrant plants and flowers with plantsman Ken Druse...
Dec 12, 2019
BEST OF: IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE, DR. LAUREN E. OAKES
In this early December mini-pledge drive week here at North State Public Radio, I wanted to revisit our earlier conversation with Dr....
Dec 5, 2019
UNABASHED GRATITUDE & STRUCTURES OF CARE, with POET GARDENER ROSS GAY
"It’s sort of beautiful – Lucky – It feels like a lucky orientation to be constantly thinking: 'Oh what’s happening out there, what’s...
Nov 28, 2019
TALKING 'BOUT A REVOLUTION: FOODSCAPE REVOLUTION with BRIE ARTHUR
Last week we were in the herbs, this week we move to the rest of the food pantry and I mean the rest – from peanuts to beans and rice,...
Nov 21, 2019
ALL THE HERBS OF THE SEASON with SUE GOETZ
We’re past the fall back time change here in the US and for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere generally the days are noticeably...
Nov 14, 2019
FIRESCAPING: IN HONOR OF THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAMPFIRE, with DOUGLAS KENT, CALLI-JANE DE
Almost one year ago, on November 8th 2018, the CampFire broke out in Butte County California Cited as the deadliest and most destructive...
Nov 7, 2019
MASTERING THE ART OF BEING A PLANTSMAN, MATT MATTUS
Matt Mattus is a well known horticulturist, plantsman gardener and author. His Growing with Plants Blog and hist first book Mastering the...
Oct 31, 2019
GARDEN CARTOGRAPHY - MISTI LITTLE, NATURALIST & THE GARDEN PATH PODCAST
Misti little is a naturalist, a gardener, a mother, and professionally she’s an environmental consultant working in GIS geographic...
Oct 24, 2019
CULTIVATING A GARDENING CULTURE - TUCKER FITZPATRICK
Two weeks ago we began a meta gardening theme in conversation with architect David Abelow today we continue in this mode with Southern...
Oct 17, 2019
BEST OF: DARING TO BE WILD - MARY REYNOLDS AIMS TO BUILD AN A-R-K
Welcome to the North State Public Radio Fall Pledge Drive – which I thought was a good time indeed to revisit a Best of Program from...
Oct 10, 2019
THE FIRST NEXT ROOM: CONSIDERING OUR GARDENS FROM THE INSIDE OUT with ARCHITECT DAVID ABELOW
Today we move out in perspective a little, looking, thinking and talking about how built spaces and landscapes integrate into the world...
Oct 3, 2019
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
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