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STRUCTURES OF CARE, with POET GARDENER ROSS GAY (BEST OF)
"It’s sort of beautiful – Lucky – It feels like a lucky orientation to be constantly thinking: 'Oh what’s happening out there, what’s...
Jun 4, 2020
THERAPEUTIC LANDSCAPES NETWORK, DR. NAOMI SACHS Healing Gardens Series #2
In our second episode in a series around the healing power of plants and gardens in our world, we get an overview of the professional...
Feb 6, 2020
Sanctuary: Red Bird Restorative Gardens with P. Annie Kirk Healing Gardens Series #1
Sanctuary. Healing. These seem to be things the whole world needs. And things we are looking for, in varying degrees of urgency and from...
Jan 30, 2020
GROWING (AND BUILDING) EMPOWERMENT: FRAILTY MYTHS, ERINN CARTER & GEORGIA FAYE HIRSTY
"Frailty Myths offers workshops for women, trans, and gender non-conforming folks that provide a transformative experience through our...
Jan 23, 2020
(GARDEN) NEWS FROM THE CAPITAL: WASHINGTON GARDENER MAGAZINE, with KATHY JENTZ
A lot of news comes out of Washington DC at most times, and this year looks to offer even more. But we’re visiting the MidAtlantic belt...
Jan 9, 2020
CONSIDER THE LILIES, NATURALIST & EDUCATOR JOE JOE CLARK
As we ring in the New Year of this New Decade with the power of 2020 ours for the making, this week Cultivating Place welcomes gardener,...
Jan 3, 2020
THE SCENTUAL GARDEN, KEN DRUSE
Scentual - hmmm. A good and evocative word, right? Today we are talking all things fragrant plants and flowers with plantsman Ken Druse...
Dec 12, 2019
BEST OF: IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE, DR. LAUREN E. OAKES
In this early December mini-pledge drive week here at North State Public Radio, I wanted to revisit our earlier conversation with Dr....
Dec 5, 2019
UNABASHED GRATITUDE & STRUCTURES OF CARE, with POET GARDENER ROSS GAY
"It’s sort of beautiful – Lucky – It feels like a lucky orientation to be constantly thinking: 'Oh what’s happening out there, what’s...
Nov 28, 2019
GARDEN CARTOGRAPHY - MISTI LITTLE, NATURALIST & THE GARDEN PATH PODCAST
Misti little is a naturalist, a gardener, a mother, and professionally she’s an environmental consultant working in GIS geographic...
Oct 24, 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
THE FIRST NEXT ROOM: CONSIDERING OUR GARDENS FROM THE INSIDE OUT with ARCHITECT DAVID ABELOW
Today we move out in perspective a little, looking, thinking and talking about how built spaces and landscapes integrate into the world...
Oct 3, 2019
IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE, and other THOUGHTS ON RESILIENCE, DR. LAUREN E. OAKES
Here in my part of the world, it’s back to school time! Lower schools, high school and university students, faculty and staff are shaking...
Sep 5, 2019
BEST OF: TO BE A SEED KEEPER: ROWEN WHITE, SIERRA SEEDS
As we head into the month of the September, and we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox later in the month, I am reminded of this being one...
Aug 29, 2019
TO BE A PLACEMAKER with CHRISTIE PURIFOY
What does it mean to be a placemaker – what is learned, what is lost, what is gained in the making of any place. Today we consider the...
Jul 25, 2019
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER: ON GARDENING AND CITIZENSHIP
On this Fourth of July – I'm honored to be in conversation with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous...
Jul 4, 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
A WAY TO GARDEN, with MARGARET ROACH
For many plant and garden lovers, Margaret Roach will need no introduction, but for those who might be meeting her for the first time -...
May 30, 2019
GREEN UP: THE GREENEST BLOCK IN BROOKLYN - GARDENS AS COMMUNITY ACTIVISM with THE BROOKLYN BOTANIC G
The Greenest Block in Brooklyn is a friendly competition among streets and neighborhood blocks in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn....
May 16, 2019
BEST OF: THE DANGER GARDEN, LOREE BOHL
Today we revisit a Best of Dispatches from the Home Garden episode. We do this in part because I love this episode, because it is...
Jan 25, 2019
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