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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 17, 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...
Oct 3, 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...
Sep 12, 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...
Aug 8, 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...
Jul 25, 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 20, 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 13, 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...
Jun 6, 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 24, 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 16, 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...
May 2, 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 28, 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 21, 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 7, 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...
Mar 1, 2024


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


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


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
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