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THE COLLECTIVE & THE SEED FARMER, DAN BRISEBOIS OF TOURNE-SOL COOPERATIVE FARM, CANADA
This week – in the wind, rain, snow, and fires of early 2025 so far – it is good to be able to focus on SEEDs this week. Seeds remind us...
Jan 9
RESOLUTION SUPPORT: THE 5-MINUTE GARDENER with NICOLE BURKE, GARDENER
Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week is all about gardening even...
Dec 12, 2024
ARBOREAL OBSESSION & GROWING THE WORLD: THE TREE COLLECTORS, with AMY STEWART
Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of things like pots, books, seeds, and of course plants. Some collect flowers, or herbs,...
Oct 31, 2024
ALL HALLOWS EVE/SAMHAIN AND OUR WILDEST DREAMS, with JEN WILLIAMS OF WILD DREAMS FARM & SEED
Sometimes our dreams didn’t start out as our dreams. Sometimes, our current dreams were once just seeds germinating in the crucible of...
Oct 24, 2024
THE POETIC GARDEN LEGACY OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE'S EFFIE LEE NEWSOME with REVEREND JERRI MITCHELL-LEE
This week, Cultivating Place Guest Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Reverend Jerri Mitchell-Lee. They enjoy a deep dive into the...
Oct 17, 2024
ALL THE WILD RHYTHMS: WILD PLANT CULTURE with JARED ROSENBAUM
Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring...
Oct 3, 2024
KISS MY ASTER's ASTER GARDENS, with AMANDA THOMSEN
This week we’re joined by Amanda Thomsen, owner of Aster Gardens , a bespoke, sensory, and haunted plant shop in the small, Midwestern...
Sep 12, 2024
SOMETHING IN THE WOODS LOVES YOU, JAROD K. ANDERSON
Jarod K. Anderson is a poet and nature enthusiast - his book, Something in the Woods Loves You – “the story of the darkest stretch of a...
Aug 8, 2024
SHROUDED IN LIGHT, WHAT OUR NATIVE SHRUBLANDS CAN TEACH OUR GARDENS, with KEVIN PHILIP WILLIAMS & MICHAEL GUIDI
Late July, August, and September (with the constellation Sirius high in the night sky) is perhaps the stretch of the year in most...
Jul 25, 2024
A DEVOTION TO THE MYSTERIUM OF PLACE AS AN ANTIDOTE TO EXISTENTIAL HOMESICKNESS with JANISSE RAY
Working under the online name Trackless Wild, Janisse Ray is an American writer, naturalist, and environmental activist. Just about...
Jun 20, 2024
SUMMER SOLSTICE SPECIAL: STILL, with MARY JO HOFFMAN
Happy Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern...
Jun 13, 2024
IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH: THE ANNE SPENCER HOUSE & GARDEN MUSEUM, with SHAUN SPENCER-HESTER
In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we check in on the Anne Spencer House & Garden in Lynchburg, VA. The home and garden of...
Jun 6, 2024
A GARDEN'S PURPOSE, with ECOLOGICAL DESIGNER FELIX DE ROSEN
Cultivating our places with attention, intention, thought, and care is certainly an ethos I hold dear and advocate for with some measure...
May 24, 2024
MILKWOOD PERMACULTURE - HABITS FOR HOPE IN A CHANGING WORLD, with KIRSTEN BRADLEY
ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Milkwood, all rights reserved. This week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with Kirsten Bradley,...
May 17, 2024
THE SEED DETECTIVE, with ADAM ALEXANDER
ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Adam Alexander, all rights reserved. Just in time for your continued planning, plotting, and planting in order to...
May 2, 2024
A YEAR FULL OF FLOWERS (IN POTS!) with UK'S SARAH RAVEN
ALL PHOTOS by Jonathan Buckley, all rights reserved. "Pots in the garden are like bubble in a glass of champagne." -Sarah Raven Sarah...
Mar 28, 2024
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FINALE: GARDEN WONDERLAND, WITH LESLIE BENNETT
To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, Oakland, CA based landscape...
Mar 21, 2024
SPRING EQUINOX SPECIAL: OWEN WORMSER OF ABOUND DESIGN & "LAWNS INTO MEADOWS"
The Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now. As we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier...
Mar 7, 2024
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: THE QUEEN OF HERBS, JEKKA MCVICAR
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...
Mar 1, 2024
LEAP DAY SPECIAL: GARDENING CAN BE MURDER WITH MARTA MCDOWELL
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, longtime listeners of...
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