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GREEN & SACRED SPACE, MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, with DAVE BARNETT
Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, and Day of the Dead - this week we explore the green, sacred, and communal space of a...
Oct 28, 2021


GROWING FLAVOR - PAST & PRESENT, CHEF DAVE SMOKE MCCLUSKEY's CORN MAFIA
This week we explore some farmer and seasonal food connections with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and grower/producer...
Oct 21, 2021


SEASONS OF OUR JOY (BREATH OF LIFE), RABBI ARTHUR WASKOW
September, October, and November are traditional harvest celebration months in the Northern Hemisphere from variations on Octoberfests to...
Sep 16, 2021


FINDING SOLACE IN THE SOIL: GARDENS & GARDENERS OF AMACHE, JAPANESE AMERICAN PRISON CAMP
Bonnie J. Clark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of...
Jul 8, 2021


CULTIVATING INTENTION: ALI MEDERS-KNIGHT, MECHOOPDA MAIDU
Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda Tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California. A...
Jul 1, 2021


GARDENS IN TIME & SPACE: LAURA EKASETYA, LURIE GARDEN, CHICAGO
Having just moved across the seasonal threshold of the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, this week we continue our focus on...
Mar 25, 2021


LUNAR NEW YEAR, with TAWAINESE AMERICAN PLANTSMAN ERIC HSU
In honor of Lunar New Year which begins with the new moon on February 12th and lasts until the next full moon arrives at the end of the...
Feb 11, 2021


A HANDFUL OF FORTITUDE & GRATITUDE, TERESA SABANKAYA
In a year in which gardeners and other humans alike are having to meet and process and pivot around and over and beyond a wide variety of...
Dec 4, 2020


FOR THE LOVE OF PLANTS, with HORTICULTURIST WAMBUI IPPOLITO
Wambui Ippolito loves plants – she has loved them since she was a young girl with strong land-and plant based family history going back...
Sep 17, 2020


THE POWER OF BOTANICAL MYTHOLOGY with MATT HALL
Matt Hall is a husband, father, and gardener deeply interested in how our cultural mythologies can produce and support cultures of...
Jul 16, 2020


WRITING WILD: 25 WOMEN POETS, RAMBLERS & MAVERICKS with KATHRYN AALTO
This week on Cultivating Place we take a summer amble with British-based Californian Kathryn Aalto – an historian, garden designer, and...
Jul 9, 2020


BOTANY, GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY & POWER: AT THE HEART OF THE GARDEN, JAMAICA KINCAID
"YEASTY" - that's how Jamaica Kincaid describes our current moment in time. She and I spoke via remote audio video connection on June...
Jul 2, 2020


SUMMER GARDEN GEMS: THE MELONS, AMY GOLDMAN, HEIRLOOM GARDENER
Amy Goldman is a gardener, author artist and longtime advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her...
Jun 26, 2020


WEDDING (FLOWERS) SEASON, with PHILIPPA CRADDOCK
June is traditionally a month in which many, many weddings are celebrated with family, food, and FLOWERS. With many of these weddings...
Jun 11, 2020


THE COMFORT OF ROSES, with MICHAEL MARRIOTT, DAVID AUSTIN ROSES
If April showers bring May flowers, for me those flowers must include my roses. They are in peak bloom from late April through through...
May 7, 2020


EMILY DICKINSON'S GARDENING LIFE, with AUTHOR MARTA MCDOWELL
Emily Dickinson was a gardener. She was also an iconic poet, and this week we enjoy a conversation with Marta McDowell to hear more about...
Jan 16, 2020


MASTERING THE ART OF BEING A PLANTSMAN, MATT MATTUS
Matt Mattus is a well known horticulturist, plantsman gardener and author. His Growing with Plants Blog and hist first book Mastering the...
Oct 31, 2019


CULTIVATING A GARDENING CULTURE - TUCKER FITZPATRICK
Two weeks ago we began a meta gardening theme in conversation with architect David Abelow today we continue in this mode with Southern...
Oct 17, 2019


BEST OF: LEAH PENNIMAN on SOUL FIRE FARM & FARMING WHILE BLACK
LEAH PENNIMAN on SOUL FIRE FARM & FARMING WHILE BLACK LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Last week we heard from nationally renowned gardener Margaret...
Jun 8, 2019


HORTLANDIA: LEARNING AND GROWING WITH THE HARDY PLANT SOCIETY OF OREGON, NANCY GOLDMAN
This week, we continue our exploration of the different ways in which we as gardeners grow - together in our gardening practices in...
Feb 21, 2019
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