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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 11, 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


HEALING, GRATITUDE & CONNECTION: ZEPHRINE HANSON, HAMPDEN FARMS
In this week after Veterans Day here in the US, and in this season clarifying that gratitude is one of the greatest gifts of the garden...
Nov 17, 2022


SEED SEASON & BIOREGIONAL SEED SENSE w/ STACEY DENTON of FLORA FARM & DESIGN STUDIO
Photos courtesy of Stacey Denton, Flora Farm & Design Studio, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This first full...
Sep 29, 2022


BLACK FLORA with TERI SPEIGHT, IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH
In preparation for Juneteenth, we’re in conversation with a Washington DC -based gardener, garden historian and podcaster under the name...
Jun 16, 2022


COMING TO FRUITION, FRUITION SEEDS, PETRA PAGE-MANN
Petra Page-Mann is a green growing force. She is also co-founder with her husband Matthew Goldfarb (as well as with the many people and...
Feb 3, 2022


BRAVE NEW SEED FOR A BRAVE NEW YEAR, with KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG
As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome to the year that will be, I am joined this week by seedperson and agent...
Dec 30, 2021


THANKFUL FOR FARMERS: MATTHEW MARTIN, PYRAMID FARMS
This week I am thankful for good food, and the many souls who grow it for us all year long – around the world, really, but This week we...
Nov 25, 2021


SLOW FLOWERS FOR THE SUMMER (& LIFE), with DEBRA PRINZING
Debra Prinzing is the founder and leader of The Slow Flowers Society – She joins us in this first week of summer (after Memorial Day and...
Jun 3, 2021


IMAGINE: A CONVERSATION WITH FARMER/FLORIST/DAUGHTER, AMBER TAMM
In honor of the Solstice on December 21st and the important pivot in seasonal time that it represents, rest, dark, and dormancy in the...
Dec 17, 2020


ON CREATIVITY: LIFE IN THE STUDIO (& GARDEN) with FRANCES PALMER
This week we kick off October with a dive into creativity – the way gardeners harness it, riff off it, and share its results forward with...
Oct 1, 2020


COLLABORATIVE GROWING, FARMER MEG PASKA
I wanted to pop in quick here for an update on our listener support challenge underway. We set ourselves the goal of adding 100 new...
Aug 13, 2020


PLANTING YOUR TRUTH with ABRA LEE, PUBLIC HORTICULTURIST
Abra Lee to date has had an 18 year career in horticulture - a County Extension Agent with the University of Georgia, former...
Jul 18, 2019


ON POSH COW PARSLEY & OTHER ADVENTURES IN GROWING FLOWERS FROM SEED with the UK's CLARE FOST
There are few things so affirming as growing plants from seed, but this is also a gardening skill and activity that can be shrouded in...
Jul 11, 2019


THE SEEDS OF WHO WE GROW TO BECOME: STONEGATE FARM, MATTHEW BENSON
HE SEEDS OF WHO WE GROW TO BECOME: STONEGATE FARM, MATTHEW BENSON LISTEN TO THE PODCAST This week, we finish up our 4 part Seeds of...
Sep 27, 2018


LOOKING FORWARD: JANUARY & THE GARDEN LIFE YEAR - SARAH STATHAM, SIMPLY BY ARRANGEMENT
LOOKING FORWARD: JANUARY & THE GARDEN LIFE YEAR - SARAH STATHAM, SIMPLY BY ARRANGEMENT LISTEN TO THE PODCAST This week on Cultivating...
Jan 4, 2018


HOLIDAY BLOOMS with THOMAS BROOM-HUGHES of THOMAS BLOOM FLOWERS, LONDON
HOLIDAY BLOOMS with THOMAS BROOM-HUGHES of THOMAS BLOOM FLOWERS, LONDON LISTEN TO THE PODCAST This week on Cultivating Place, British...
Nov 30, 2017


REVISITING THE CUT FLOWER GARDEN
REVISITING THE CUT FLOWER GARDEN AHEAD OF AMERICAN FLOWERS WEEK LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Next week – June 28 to July 4 – our country is...
Jun 22, 2017
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