“Ecological restoration is no longer a nicety, it’s a necessity,” proclaims the Blackland Collaborative , a group working to help make cities more biodiverse and inclusive, and to help heal human communities while restoring vulnerable species. Bridging science and design, the Collaborative "brings people and nature home"; and they believe in"humans’ capacity to improve and protect". John Hart Asher is a co-founder and senior environmental designer with the Blackland Collabor

In 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, AKA the Queen City, developed the program that has earned them their secondary nickname: Green City. The Green...

Happy Spring Equinox!  To welcome Spring — especially this exact Spring in the US — practicing re-enchantment in our world seemed exactly...

In this week's best of conversation, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that All flourishing is mutual.

Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring...

ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Adam Alexander, all rights reserved. Just in time for your continued planning, plotting, and planting in order to...

Happy Women’s History Month! To kick Women’s History Month off on Cultivating Place, this week we visit with the woman known as the Queen...

We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant...

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...

This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto a plantswoman, conservationist, artist, and expert...

This week before July is upon us and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so...

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

Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...

In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...

Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...

Bonnie J. Clark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of...

Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda Tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California. A...

As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in...

Matt Hall is a husband, father, and gardener deeply interested in how our cultural mythologies can produce and support cultures of...

Today we revisit a Best of Dispatches from the Home Garden episode. We do this in part because I love this episode, because it is...