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May 4, 2023
SOIL, THE STORY OF A BLACK MOTHER'S GARDEN w/ CAMILLE DUNGY
Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections...

Apr 20, 2023
EARTH DAY SPECIAL: WE ARE THE ARK, IRELAND'S MARY REYNOLDS
It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...


Apr 6, 2023
PRAIRIE UP! BENJAMIN VOGT, MONARCH GARDENS
I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snow drops in...


Mar 30, 2023
WHY WOMEN GROW, ALICE VINCENT
Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller, based in London, and examining with gusto and curiosity the intricacies of words and...


Mar 16, 2023
THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON (BEST OF)
IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...


Mar 2, 2023
LOVING THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH: ORWELL'S ROSES, with REBECCA SOLNIT
Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. Her long bibliography epitomizes her wide ranging humanitarian interests – from...


Feb 23, 2023
ORCHARD: WINTER KEEPERS, COOKERS & CIDERS, with UK'S JAMES RICH
This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with home grown ones, a...


Jan 26, 2023
THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, A NATURAL HISTORY (AND A LOVE STORY), MICHAEL KAUFFMANN & JUSTIN GARWOOD
This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023, by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region...


Dec 10, 2022
LEARNING FROM GARDENERS PAST with LANDSCAPE HISTORIAN JUDITH TANKARD
This week – we visit and learn from gardeners-past as we look to the future in conversation with Judith Tankard, a landscape historian,...


Dec 1, 2022
BEFRIENDING OUR SITES w/ THE GARDEN REFRESH, KIER HOLMES
Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer regularly contributing to the likes of Martha Stewart, Better Homes & Gardens, Gardenista,...


Nov 25, 2022
THANKFUL: A THOUSAND WAYS TO PAY ATTENTION, WITH REBECCA SCHILLER
Rebecca Schiller is a gardener, a smallholding steward, an activist, and women's rights campaigner - founder and trustee of human rights...

Oct 27, 2022
NOWNESS & THE SENESCENT SEASON: PUNK IKEBANA, LOUESA ROEBUCK
Approaching All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween, Samhain, and Day of the Dead, we are entering into the season of gratitude - running from now...


Oct 21, 2022
GARDENING WITH AMERICAN ROOTS, NICK & ALLISON MCCULLOUGH
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with a fall/winter planning and planting this time with a focus on design, in conversation...


Oct 6, 2022
PROPORTIONALITY: THE NORTHEAST NATIVE PLANT PRIMER w/ ULI LORIMER
Photos courtesy of Uli Lorimer, The Native Plant Trust, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. As we look to our fall...


Aug 18, 2022
THE PRAIRIE GARDENER GO-TO GUIDES, with CANADIAN GARDENER JANET MELROSE
In our ongoing exploration of where gardeners are and what they are doing in our world right now, I am very pleased to head pretty far...


Jun 17, 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...


May 19, 2022
THE MAGICAL BOTANICALS OF FLORA FORAGER, with BRIDGET BETH COLLINS
In the spirit of May, this week we’re headed out in the garden, or down the block, or up the trail for some plant-y wonder and magic in...


Apr 28, 2022
COLOR IN & OUT OF THE GARDEN, LORENE EDWARDS FORKNER
In preparation for May and Mother’s Day here in the US, this week we’re in conversation with Lorene Edwards Forkner, a gardener, a...


Mar 17, 2022
GROW NOW - OUR GARDENS AS CLIMATE ACTIVISM, EMILY MURPHY
Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her...


Feb 24, 2022
WINTER GARDENS, WITH PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREW MONTGOMERY
Andrew Montgomery is a British-based garden photographer. His new book, Winter Gardens, celebrates the very specific beauty of the winter...
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