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THE HIDDEN HISTORIES OF GARDEN LEGACIES, with ROSE VINCENT, RESOURCE LIBRARIAN NYBG
This week on Cultivating Place , in honor of this first week of Autumn, and the idea of passing time, looking back, and the importance of...
Sep 25, 2025
THE ADVENTUROUS ART OF CULTIVATING PLACE, with PEG & AWL
This week on Cultivating Place , we lean into The Art of CP, exploring how the act of Cultivating Place is artful, and how the creative...
Sep 18, 2025
GREAT GREEN HEIGHTS: CINCINNATI'S GREEN ROOFS AND ROOFTOP GARDENS with ROSE HENRY SEEGER
In 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, AKA the Queen City, developed the program that has earned them their secondary nickname: Green City. The Green...
Sep 11, 2025
MUM'S THE FLOWER OF FALL, with JESSICA HALL OF HARMONY HARVEST FLOWER FARM
This week on Cultivating Place , we celebrate late summer and fall on the horizon in conversation about one of fall’s stars in the...
Sep 4, 2025
ROOTED IN THE FUTURE: CULTIVATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF HORTICULTURE, JAZMIN ALBARRAN
This week on Cultivating Place , host Abra Lee dives into the world of pathways to plant professions with Jazmin Albarran, Executive...
Aug 28, 2025
THE GENEROSITY OF AN ORCHARD: THE GIVING GROVE
As autumn and harvest begins to color the edges of our awareness, this week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by two people whose work...
Aug 21, 2025
BACK TO THE SOURCE: THE SOMME PRAIRIE GROVE NATURE PRESERVE
Looking back, even just this year, Cultivating Place has had multiple conversations with plantspeople from around the country about the...
Aug 14, 2025
BRIGHT AUTUMN NIGHTS—GLEAM AT OLBRICH BOTANICAL GARDENS
Hot August nights turn to bright August nights at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI. The Garden's annual GLEAM light show is...
Aug 7, 2025
PRAIRIE UP! WITH PLANTSPERSON BENJAMIN VOGT (BEST OF)
Cultivating Plac e and Cultivating Place Live are made possible in part through the generosity of the Catto Shaw Foundation. Are you...
Jul 31, 2025
COMING TO OUR SENSES, "WILDSCAPE," with NANCY LAWSON (BEST OF)
The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening...
Jul 24, 2025
THE NATURE PLACE–LA CROSSE, WI, with REBECCA SCHWARZ & PAIGE MANGES
This week we’re getting back to nature for summer camp: ALL ages invited. We’re in conversation with Rebecca Schwarz and Paige Manges of...
Jul 17, 2025
GLOBAL GARDEN ADVENTURER, PLANTSWOMAN LUCIE WILLAN
This week on Cultivating Place you are in for a real summer adventure on a global garden armchair tour of sorts with a plantswoman who...
Jul 10, 2025
JULY 4TH SPECIAL—GREAT EXPECTATIONS: CP LIVE with BEN FUTA OF BOTANY & CO SOUTH BEND, IN
THIS WEEK on CP - OUR NEXT CP LIVE podcast! And we head to Indiana with our very own Ben Futa! Botany & Co. in South Bend, Indiana is...
Jul 3, 2025
ROOTED IN EDUCATION, RICHARD M. SMITH, DIRECTOR, NYBG SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL HORTICULTURE
This week on Cultivating Place , guest host Abra Lee is joined in conversation by someone whose path into horticulture is both surprising...
Jun 26, 2025
CP NEW MOON NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2025
CP NEW MOON Newsletter - all things CP this month: listen, read, engage, support
Jun 24, 2025
MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT MAGIC, with LEIGH ANN HENION
Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder–someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible...
Jun 19, 2025
GETTING TO KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS: PREPARING FOR POLLINATOR WEEK with COLORADO'S PPAN
Every year since 2007 when the US Senate passed sanctions declaring it, the third week of June is celebrated as National Pollinator Week....
Jun 12, 2025
TRANSFORMATIVE BEAUTY: BEN FUTA & MONTREAL-BASED DESIGNER, MARC SARDI
To welcome the fullness of June, this week on Cultivating Place , Guest host Ben Futa is back and in conversation with Marc Sardi, a...
Jun 5, 2025
NUTRITIOUS MOVEMENT & THE GARDENER, with KATY BOWMAN
Summer makes it easy to move your body – to get out for a walk, to work in the garden, to hike, bike, stroll, boat, climb, swim, dance...
May 29, 2025
RAISED BEDS, RAISED VOICES: ABRA LEE IN CONVERSATION WITH PHILADELPHIA'S GUINA HAMMOND
Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Program Manager of Public Gardens and Landscapes. She is also deeply involved...
May 22, 2025
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