Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. Her long bibliography epitomizes her wide ranging humanitarian interests – from...

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...

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

This week – we visit and learn from gardeners-past as we look to the future in conversation with Judith Tankard, a landscape historian,...

Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer regularly contributing to the likes of Martha Stewart, Better Homes & Gardens, Gardenista,...

Rebecca Schiller is a gardener, a smallholding steward, an activist, and women's rights campaigner - founder and trustee of human rights...

Approaching All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween, Samhain, and Day of the Dead, we are entering into the season of gratitude - running from now...

This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with a fall/winter planning and planting this time with a focus on design, in conversation...

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...

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...

In preparation for Juneteenth, we’re in conversation with a Washington DC -based gardener, garden historian and podcaster under the name...

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...

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...

Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her...

Andrew Montgomery is a British-based garden photographer. His new book, Winter Gardens, celebrates the very specific beauty of the winter...

Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A...

To welcome the new year, we stay with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane...

In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, we’re joined this week by...

As we near the close of a dry, dry season in the generally dry climates of much of the US West, this week Cultivating Place has the first...

At a time when our gardens large or small often feel more important than ever, I think our focus on exactly what our gardens contain and...