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JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER'S DAY: BLOOM! DEB PRINZING, SLOW FLOWERS SOCIETY
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...
May 12, 2023


SOIL, THE STORY OF A BLACK MOTHER'S GARDEN w/ CAMILLE DUNGY
Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections...
May 4, 2023


CULTIVATING EDEN, with REBECCA ALLAN
This last week of April, an "art of the garden" conversation with artist, historian, gardener and environmental advocate Rebecca Allan....
Apr 27, 2023


EARTH DAY SPECIAL: WE ARE THE ARK, IRELAND'S MARY REYNOLDS
It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...
Apr 20, 2023


CURIOSITY IN THE FIELD OF DREAMS, PLANTSMAN ROY DIBLIK
Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives’ calling to bring...
Apr 13, 2023


PRAIRIE UP! BENJAMIN VOGT, MONARCH GARDENS
I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snow drops in...
Apr 6, 2023


THE W.W. SEYMOUR BOTANICAL CONSERVATORY, TACOMA, WA, with PLANTSWOMAN TYRA SHENAURLT
As we come toward the finale of Women’s history month, this week we head Northwest - to Tacoma, Washington. Horticulturist/Plantswoman...
Mar 23, 2023


THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON (BEST OF)
IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...
Mar 16, 2023


BRINGING BACK THE NATIVES TOUR, KATHY KRAMER
In a continuation of Women’s History Month series, and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they...
Mar 9, 2023


LOVING THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH: ORWELL'S ROSES, with REBECCA SOLNIT
Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. Her long bibliography epitomizes her wide ranging humanitarian interests – from...
Mar 2, 2023


ORCHARD: WINTER KEEPERS, COOKERS & CIDERS, with UK'S JAMES RICH
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...
Feb 23, 2023


THE UPLIFTING OF UJAAMA, BONNETTA ADEEB & NATHAN KLEINMAN
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...
Feb 16, 2023


THE LOVE STORIES OF ABRA LEE, CONQUER THE SOIL & OAKLAND GARDEN CEMETERY, ATLANTA
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...
Feb 9, 2023


FOR THE LOVE OF APPLES: MONTEZUMA ORCHARD RESTORATION PROJECT
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...
Feb 2, 2023


THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, A NATURAL HISTORY (AND A LOVE STORY), MICHAEL KAUFFMANN & JUSTIN GARWOOD
This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023, by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region...
Jan 26, 2023


THE YUROK TRIBE'S REVEGETATION PLAN & UNDAMMING of the KLAMATH BROOK THOMPSON & JOSHUA CHENOWETH
Seen in overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations...
Jan 19, 2023


A VOICE FOR PLANTS: CNPS's JUN BANDO & LIV O'KEEFE on the 30 x 30 CONSERVATION GOALS
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...
Jan 12, 2023


CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY & HABITAT 30% x 2030, JENNIFER NORRIS
Welcome 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, and statewide and local...
Jan 5, 2023


GARDEN MASTERCLASS - CALLING ALL GARDENERS with ANNIE GUILFOYLE & NOEL KINGSBURY
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...
Dec 29, 2022


TO BE A GARDENER, COMMUNITY-RESTORATION ECOLOGIST, CRIS SARABIA
This episode is dedicated to the remarkable and beloved P-22, the mountain lion who made LA his home, captured our imaginations, and...
Dec 22, 2022
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