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LEGENDS OF THE LEAF, WITH JANE PERRONE, HOST OF "ON THE LEDGE" PODCAST
This week - we lean into a particular aspect of our garden lives – but perhaps a favorite winter activity in the northerly climates in...
Feb 22, 2024


A LOVE STORY: BRENT LEGGS & THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE ACTION FUND
This week a Valentine of sorts for the world of land and cultural care. In the midst of Black History Month, we’re in conversation this...
Feb 15, 2024


LIBRARY SCIENCE IS (GARDEN) LIFE SCIENCE, STACI CATRON & JENNIE OLDFIELD, CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY, ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of...
Feb 8, 2024


WORMWRANGLING, THE SCIENCE-PRACTICE GAP & UPDATING GRASSLAND RESTORATION, JUSTIN LUONG
Did you know that grasslands account for between 20 and 40 percent of the world's land area? Generally open, fairly flat, and accessible...
Jan 18, 2024


REIMAGINING MAY SARTON'S HOUSE (& GARDEN) BY THE SEA, with ARTIST/GARDENER CARLY GLOVINSKI
This week on Cultivating Place we hear the magical story of how two women, separated by time, came together to grow all of our...
Jan 11, 2024


WELCOMING WHIMSY, WONDER & THE WORK OF INTIMACY: ESME CABRERA, NATURALIST/ARTIST, LA MAMIGAMI
Esme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a born educator. Under the Instagram name “la-mamigami", Esme experiments, shares,...
Jan 4, 2024


THINKING LIKE A HEALTHY HABITAT (RADICALLY & RADIALLY), with SID HILL, ECOLOGICAL LAND ARTISAN
We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant...
Dec 28, 2023


SOLSTICE SPECIAL: THE GARDEN NEXT DOOR, with COLLIN PINE
Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The...
Dec 21, 2023


UPROOTING, with MARCHELLE FARRELL, AFROLIAGE
Caribbean-born, British-based writer and gardener Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside,...
Dec 14, 2023


LOVE, NATURE, MAGIC with MARIA RODALE
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, I am thrilled to be joined...
Dec 7, 2023


SUPER BLOOM: A CONVERSATION WITH AUSTRALIAN PLANT PRACTITIONER JAC SEMMLER
Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, high skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book...
Nov 30, 2023


KINSHIP & BELONGING IN A WORLD OF RELATIONS: BEST OF
In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power...
Nov 23, 2023


GROW: with AWARD WINNING PLANTSMAN RIZ REYES, AUTHOR OF GROW: A FAMILY GUIDE TO PLANTS
r Riz Reyes is a horticulturalist whose career has deep roots in the Pacific Northwest. His work, however, taps into international...
Nov 16, 2023


JOY TAKES ROOT & THE LIGHT SHE FEELS INSIDE with GWENDOLYN WALLACE
Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a scholar, a perennial student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated...
Nov 9, 2023


GROWING HOME: HUMBLE ROOTS NURSERY & THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVE PLANT PRIMER
As we turn the calendar to November, and the season to decidedly late fall and wintery in many places across the US, we look toward our...
Nov 2, 2023


FLORA & FORAGE, and THE SECRET STORIES OF WILDFLOWERS, BLUE RIDGE BOTANIC's NINA VETETO
This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto a plantswoman, conservationist, artist, and expert...
Oct 26, 2023


THE COMFORT OF CROWS, A BACKYARD YEAR, with MARGARET RENKL
This week, in this season of endings and beginnings again we welcome back writer, backyard tender, and heartfelt observer Margaret Renkl,...
Oct 19, 2023


STAR-GAZING, YARD-SHARING, IMAGINATION & COMMUNITY ACTIVATING, OLLY COSTELLO DRAWS US TOGETHER
This week on Cultivating Place we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant loving and garden growing lives in...
Oct 12, 2023


WHO IS 'joe gardener'? A CONVERSATION WITH JOE LAMP'L, GROWING A GREENER WORLD
This week we enjoy a conversation with a gardener and garden guru well known and loved: Joe Lamp’l of the famed and award-winning Growing...
Oct 5, 2023


FROM JOYFUL PARTICIPATION IN A WORLD OF SORROWS TO COSMOSIS, ARTIST LIBBY ELLIS
As we move toward October, the first in what will be a few intermittent episodes across fall and winter reminding us of the artistry...
Sep 28, 2023
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