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...

Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby...

Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a team of plant folks known as Refugia is growing connection among places and people from...

Loree Bohl is the Portland Oregon-based founder and visionary gardener behind the well-known and well-loved Danger Garden Blog. In true...

CAITLIN ATKINSON is a photographer of places, spaces, and all things botanical. A child-hood spent in the Sierra Nevada foothills among...

It's Spring in the northern hemisphere (even snow is still making visitations to parts of the North American as I speak to you) and...

Just in time for spring and that itch we gardeners - new and long time - have to get the summer vegetables into the ground, Cultivating...

Here we are – mid-way into Women’s History Month & one year after the publication of The Earth in Her Hands. In honor of these two...

Page Dickey is a gardener, garden designer, author and editor of many notable garden books, and the co-founder of the Garden...

As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Japan to celebrate an amazing project known as The Tokachi Millennium Forest. Dan...

Judith Phillips is a renowned landscape designer, founder and principle of Design Oasis, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the past...

Today we move out in perspective a little, looking, thinking and talking about how built spaces and landscapes integrate into the world...

"Loss is the shadow side of love, and grief is its own twin" – so writes Margaret Renkl in her human and moving memoir of place, plants,...

We have spoken many times on Cultivating Place about the ways in which our places are in fact beloved and cared for members of our...

Baylor Chapman loves plants and she’s spent a good part of her career helping people to learn about, see, love and care for plants...

"a home is a very special place and, as we both have come to learn, how to nurture it - to literally build it and then feed the children...

Robert Hanss and his daughter Catherine are a father-daughter duo in the Northeast working together to create and care for gardens and...

In a variation on the Dispatches from the Home Garden series, this week we enjoy a Dispatches from the Home Gardener and plantsperson....

Last week my eldest daughter was on spring break Next week my youngest daughter will be - Here in the US, it’s that time of year. With...