Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic...

February is upon us and we turn from a love letter to one place, to a labor of love in conserving some of the fruits of human’s labors in...

Seen in overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations...

This episode is dedicated to the remarkable and beloved P-22, the mountain lion who made LA his home, captured our imaginations, and...

In the garden, we are "kneeling between the scale of seeds and the scale of stars...." - Maria Popova This week, a pre-Solstice offering...

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

Photos courtesy of Farmer Rishi and the Sarvodaya Institute, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This week on...

The Dog Days of Summer call for a reprisal - please enjoy this week's revisit of our conversation with David Godshall! David Godshall is...

It’s the height of summer farmers markets as community hubs, and this week we're in conversation with Cheetah Tchudi co-founder with his...

Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first...

In the interest of maintaining my own lifelong love of gardening until the very very last moment possible, and all of you gardeners out...

Nitasha Manchanda is a genetic scientist, a mother, a wife, a gardener and the creator and host of a podcast series entitled The Indian...

In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...

This week, a timely and rich with agency conversation on gardens by and for refugee populations.Areti Athanasopoulos is a Denver,...

Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...

In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power...

Ernesto Alvarado is a Mexican-born, Southern-California based native plant and seed teacher and student. He is currently the Native Plant...

September, October, and November are traditional harvest celebration months in the Northern Hemisphere from variations on Octoberfests to...

As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd here in the Northern Hemisphere, we enter a period of time full of sacred...

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