As I write in my upcoming book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds – seeds are to the plant...

We are now mid-May, half way through a month of graduations, spring celebrations and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US...

Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections...

This last week of April, an "art of the garden" conversation with artist, historian, gardener and environmental advocate Rebecca Allan....

It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...

Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives’ calling to bring...

I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snow drops in...

As we come toward the finale of Women’s history month, this week we head Northwest - to Tacoma, Washington. Horticulturist/Plantswoman...

IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...

In a continuation of Women’s History Month series, and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they...

Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. Her long bibliography epitomizes her wide ranging humanitarian interests – from...

This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with home grown ones, a...

Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox, many of us have seeds of spring and summer foods on our minds (and...

Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic...

February is upon us and we turn from a love letter to one place, to a labor of love in conserving some of the fruits of human’s labors in...

This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023, by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region...

Seen in overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations...

This week we continue our multi-part series on the many facets of the global 30 x 30 conservation efforts as they continue across the...

Welcome 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, and statewide and local...

As we look out over a new garden year, this weekbidding farewell to 2022 - a conversation to help us meet our garden learning goals for...