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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,...
Dec 1, 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...
Nov 25, 2022
HEALING, GRATITUDE & CONNECTION: ZEPHRINE HANSON, HAMPDEN FARMS
In this week after Veterans Day here in the US, and in this season clarifying that gratitude is one of the greatest gifts of the garden...
Nov 17, 2022
FOREGROUNDING PLANTS: THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM CELEBRATES 150
In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of the year—when our charismatic woody megaflora of the Northern Hemisphere—the trees—are...
Nov 10, 2022
THE EVOLVING PUBLIC GARDEN: THREE MEMBERS OF THE HORT TEAM @ FILOLI HISTORIC HOUSE & GARDEN
Settling into November now, this week on Cultivating Place we’re conversation with three members of the horticultural team at Filoli, a...
Nov 3, 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 27, 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 20, 2022
SEED SEASON & BIOREGIONAL SEED SENSE w/ STACEY DENTON of FLORA FARM & DESIGN STUDIO
Photos courtesy of Stacey Denton, Flora Farm & Design Studio, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This first full...
Sep 29, 2022
REGENERATION FROM AN INTENTION OF DEEP JOY AND FUN, FARMER RISHI
Photos courtesy of Farmer Rishi and the Sarvodaya Institute, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This week on...
Sep 22, 2022
RAISE 'EM RIGHT: PLANT & HUMAN COMMUNITY AT BARTON SPRINGS NURSERY AUSTIN, TX
Photos courtesy of Barton Springs Nursery, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. If you ask me, the independent...
Sep 8, 2022
DIGGING DEEP & GARDEN SPARKS, with AUSTIN, TX GARDENER, PAM PENICK
All photos courtesy of Pam Penick, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. Pam Penick is the gardener/writer behind the...
Sep 1, 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...
Aug 18, 2022
TEST PLOT FOR A COMMUNITY-BASED LAND STEWARDSHIP ETHIC, with JEN TOY & JENNY JONES
This week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with Jenny Jones and Jen Toy. They are gardeners, landscape architects, and caring...
Aug 11, 2022
BEST OF: ADVENTUROUS DESIGN & CIVILIZATION BUILDING, DAVID GODSHALL, TERREMOTO LA
The Dog Days of Summer call for a reprisal - please enjoy this week's revisit of our conversation with David Godshall! David Godshall is...
Aug 4, 2022
CONNECTION & DIVERSITY FROM A LAND PERSPECTIVE, CHEETAH TCHUDI of TURKEYTAIL FARM
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...
Jul 21, 2022
THE CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI (80 years and growing), KAREN KAHLE
The Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati – 80 years of great growing, a conversation with Executive Director Karen Kahle (below is a...
Jul 14, 2022
THE GENEROSITY & MUTUAL CARE OF SEEDS: KEN GREENE OF HUDSON VALLEY SEED COMPANY
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...
Jun 30, 2022
NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK & POLLINATION ECOLOGY with DR. MONIKA EGERER
It is really and truly summer now. Are your gardens and parks full of the sound, movements, and magic of winged life – the fluttering of...
Jun 23, 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...
Jun 16, 2022
LONG LIVE LOVE FOUNDATION & THEIR SERENITY HEALING GARDEN
This week we consider the idea of mental health and our gardens from an even more poignant perspective. In the wake of the recent Uvalde...
Jun 9, 2022
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