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THE POWER OF LOCAL GARDEN KNOWLEDGE: IN THE COASTAL GARDEN, with LYONS FILMER & SUSAN HAYES
This Cultivating Place program is dedicated to two plantspeople in my region who have now passed to the great gardens and trails beyond....
May 26, 2022


THE MAGICAL BOTANICALS OF FLORA FORAGER, with BRIDGET BETH COLLINS
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...
May 19, 2022


GETTING GARDENFIT FOR LIFELONG GARDENING, WITH MADELINE HOOPER & JEFF HUGHES
In the interest of maintaining my own lifelong love of gardening until the very very last moment possible, and all of you gardeners out...
May 12, 2022


THEODORA PARK: CHARLESTON, SC with DAVID RAWLE (BEST OF)
This week, CP has a double-header of sorts (being baseball season you know), with some of our on-air stations in pledge drive. For these,...
May 5, 2022


COLOR IN & OUT OF THE GARDEN, LORENE EDWARDS FORKNER
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...
Apr 28, 2022


EARTH DAY - PARKS FOR THE NATURE OF EVERYONE, OLMSTED200
In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the...
Apr 21, 2022


THE INDIAN EDIT - NITASHA MANCHANDA
Nitasha Manchanda is a genetic scientist, a mother, a wife, a gardener and the creator and host of a podcast series entitled The Indian...
Apr 14, 2022


SAGING THE WORLD, PREPARING FOR CA NATIVE PLANT WEEK, ROSE RAMIREZ & DEBORAH SMALL
Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...
Apr 7, 2022


THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI
John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...
Mar 31, 2022


A SCIENTIST'S QUEST FOR NATURE'S NEXT MEDICINES, DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE
In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...
Mar 24, 2022


GARDENS BY & FOR REFUGEES: IRC's DENVER-BASE & REGENERATION NOW
This week, a timely and rich with agency conversation on gardens by and for refugee populations.Areti Athanasopoulos is a Denver,...
Mar 10, 2022


RESTORATIVE ECONOMICS: FLOWER HOUSE DETROIT + DETROIT BLACK FARMER LAND FUND
Having just completed Black History Month and just entered Women’s History Month, today - International Women's Day seemed like the...
Mar 3, 2022


WINTER GARDENS, WITH PHOTOGRAPHER ANDREW MONTGOMERY
Andrew Montgomery is a British-based garden photographer. His new book, Winter Gardens, celebrates the very specific beauty of the winter...
Feb 24, 2022


THE PALESTINE HEIRLOOM SEED LIBRARY, VIVIEN SANSOUR: BEST OF
In this first month of the new year, I once again offer out the hope of Vivien Sansour's work and the hope of seeds – to bind us more...
Jan 20, 2022


JOHNNY'S SELECTED SEEDS with DAVE MELHORN, CEO & LAUREN GIROUX, PRODUCT SELECTION/TRIALING
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes...
Jan 13, 2022


BRAVE NEW SEED FOR A BRAVE NEW YEAR, with KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG
As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome to the year that will be, I am joined this week by seedperson and agent...
Dec 30, 2021


WELCOMING DORMANCY & SABBATICAL with DEVORAH BROUS
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is a time of dormancy for the plant and animal kingdoms alike. While it may look very still and quiet,...
Dec 16, 2021


THE THREE TREE GEEKS OF SAN FRANCISCO & THEIR #COVIDTREETOURS
As we edge toward a whole new winter under the twists and turns of the Covid-19 Pandemic, now closing in on two years, we’re speaking...
Dec 2, 2021


KINSHIP & BELONGING IN A WORLD OF RELATIONS: BEST OF
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...
Nov 18, 2021


GARDEN HISTORY & HINDSIGHT, LONDON'S GARDEN MUSEUM with DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WOODWARD
Last week we looked at Gardens and History through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden History through...
Nov 4, 2021
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