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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


LENSES ON THE EVERYDAY & SEASONALLY SACRED with LONDON BASED PHOTOGRAPHER KRISTIN PERERS
As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd here in the Northern Hemisphere, we enter a period of time full of sacred...
Sep 9, 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


ON REFUGIA: GROWING CONNECTION
Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a team of plant folks known as Refugia is growing connection among places and people from...
May 27, 2021


FEARLESS GARDENING, with LOREE BOHL
Loree Bohl is the Portland Oregon-based founder and visionary gardener behind the well-known and well-loved Danger Garden Blog. In true...
May 22, 2021


GARDENS WITH SOUL: UNDER WESTERN SKIES, with CAITLIN ATKINSON
CAITLIN ATKINSON is a photographer of places, spaces, and all things botanical. A child-hood spent in the Sierra Nevada foothills among...
May 6, 2021


OUR HUNGER, HEARTACHE & IDENTITIES HEALED IN THE EDIBLE GARDEN, w/ CLAIRE RATINON
Claire Ratinon is a gardener, a writer, and a passionate advocate for the growing of food no matter where you live or how small a space...
Apr 29, 2021


REIMAGINING THE FOODSHED: AMYROSE FOLL, VIRGINIA FREE FARM
Amyrose Foll is a mother, a farmer, a business woman, of Native American Abenaki and Penobscot descent, an Army veteran - and a big...
Apr 8, 2021


TO THE FOREST: MIDORI SHINTANI, DAN PEARSON & THE TOKACHI MILLENNIUM FOREST
As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Japan to celebrate an amazing project known as The Tokachi Millennium Forest. Dan...
Feb 18, 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


MAKING A LIFE, BY HAND, with MELANIE FALICK, BEST OF
Hey – Ok I had to jump in this week to say this: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to CULITVATING PLACE – we are 5 years old this month. With more than 300...
Feb 5, 2021


TU B'SHEVAT, NEW YEAR OF THE TREES, KAREN FLOTTE
This week we lean into the spirit of the season and the traditional Jewish festival Tu B’Shevat, or New Year of the Trees, in...
Jan 28, 2021


GARDENING OUT LOUD: DURON CHAVIS
In honor of the losses, loves, griefs, gains, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we...
Dec 31, 2020


IMAGINE: A CONVERSATION WITH FARMER/FLORIST/DAUGHTER, AMBER TAMM
In honor of the Solstice on December 21st and the important pivot in seasonal time that it represents, rest, dark, and dormancy in the...
Dec 17, 2020


SOMETHING WILD & COMPOSED FOR WINTER, with HORT & POTT
This week, as tend toward the winter solstice, we continue our exploration of garden and seasonally based winter cheer here in the...
Dec 10, 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


BLACK IN THE GARDEN, THE POWERFUL GARDEN VOICE OF COLAH B. TAWKIN
Colah B Tawkin is a mother, gardener and the founder, host, and head creative of podcast and media platform known as Black in the Garden,...
Aug 6, 2020


THE GARDEN CURATOR's ART OF THE GARDEN with COLLEEN SOUTHWELL, AUS
Before we get started today, I wanted to jump in a say hello – as the independent creator and producer of Cultivating Place, I am so...
Jul 23, 2020
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