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ARTOBER: THE ECOLOGY OF GULLAH SWEETGRASS BASKETS, MARY JACKSON
This week, we finish up Artober on CP, in conversation with artist Mary Jackson, a renowned sweetgrass basket weaver known for combining traditional methods with contemporary designs. Based in the Low Country of South Carolina, Mary is the descendant of generations of Gullah basket weavers. Born in 1945, in 2008, Mary was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship ("Genius Grant") for "pushing the centuries-old tradition in stunning new directions" . From the 1970s throug
Oct 30, 2025


ROOTED IN THE FUTURE: CULTIVATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF HORTICULTURE, JAZMIN ALBARRAN
This week on Cultivating Place , host Abra Lee dives into the world of pathways to plant professions with Jazmin Albarran, Executive...
Aug 28, 2025


THE GENEROSITY OF AN ORCHARD: THE GIVING GROVE
As autumn and harvest begins to color the edges of our awareness, this week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by two people whose work...
Aug 21, 2025


BACK TO THE SOURCE: THE SOMME PRAIRIE GROVE NATURE PRESERVE
Looking back, even just this year, Cultivating Place has had multiple conversations with plantspeople from around the country about the...
Aug 14, 2025


MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT MAGIC, with LEIGH ANN HENION
Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder–someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible...
Jun 19, 2025


GROWING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION: HUMBLE ROOTS NURSERY & THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVE PLANT PRIMER (BEST OF)
Happy May Day! This week on Cultivating Place, we welcome May, with all of her floral and plant profusion, revisiting a conversation we...
May 1, 2025


SPRING EQUINOX SPECIAL - PRACTICING RE-ENCHANTMENT: ENCOUNTERING DRAGONFLIES, with BROOKE WILLIAMS
Happy Spring Equinox! To welcome Spring — especially this exact Spring in the US — practicing re-enchantment in our world seemed exactly...
Mar 20, 2025


PORTRAIT OF A BLACK WOMAN IN HER GARDEN: LESLIE BENNETT, PINE HOUSE EDIBLE GARDENS & BLACK SANCTUARY GARDENS
In celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women’s History Month - this week we’re so pleased to air another of our CP...
Feb 20, 2025


ARBOREAL OBSESSION & GROWING THE WORLD: THE TREE COLLECTORS, with AMY STEWART
Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of things like pots, books, seeds, and of course plants. Some collect flowers, or herbs,...
Dec 12, 2024


ALL FLOURISHING IS MUTUAL: ROBIN WALL KIMMERER (BEST OF)
In this week's best of conversation, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that All flourishing is mutual.
Nov 21, 2024


EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF GARDEN DESIGN with THE NEW PERENNIALIST, TONY SPENCER OF ONTARIO, CANADA
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and all that they are growing in this world, this week in...
Nov 14, 2024


ALL THE WILD RHYTHMS: WILD PLANT CULTURE with JARED ROSENBAUM
Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring...
Oct 17, 2024


THE FIELD GUIDES AMONG US, DR. ALAN WEAKLEY, DIRECTOR, UNC CHAPEL HILL HERBARIUM
Dr. Alan Weakley is a career-long botanist and conservation biologist firmly rooted in the southeast region of the U.S. For a little...
Sep 26, 2024


SHROUDED IN LIGHT, WHAT OUR NATIVE SHRUBLANDS CAN TEACH OUR GARDENS, with KEVIN PHILIP WILLIAMS & MICHAEL GUIDI
Late July, August, and September (with the constellation Sirius high in the night sky) is perhaps the stretch of the year in most...
Aug 8, 2024


THE BOTANICAL JOURNEY & LEXICON OF A CARING PLANTSPERSON, with TIM JOHNSON, NATIVE PLANT TRUST
Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and garden worlds on both personal and professional levels. Having worked with Seed Savers...
Aug 1, 2024


GOOD CITIZENSHIP = GREAT STEWARDSHIP: NATIVE SEED/SEARCH, with ALEXANDRA ZAMECNIK
It’s the seedy time of summer. This week of the fourth of July we’re working from the premise that foundational to good citizenship is...
Jul 4, 2024


NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK with THE POLLINATOR POSSE, TORA ROCHA
It’s full summer, for us and for the fauna of the Northern Hemisphere. That means many of our most charismatic, sun-loving pollinators...
Jun 27, 2024


REWARDING GREAT DESIGN: DESIGN FUTURIST AWARDS, with SARAH BECK, PACIFIC HORTICULTURE
With the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK just completed, the gardening world as a whole has the concept of Garden Design awards and...
May 30, 2024


THE BUMBLE BEE ATLAS PROJECTS, w/ LEIF RICHARDSON of XERCES SOCIETY
Following on from native plant week, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation about some of our favorite native plant visitors: our...
Apr 25, 2024


CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT WEEK: CNPS RARE PLANT PROGRAM & INVENTORY, AARON SIMS
The third week of April is California Native Plant week, this year being celebrated by the California Native Plant Society via 8 days of...
Apr 18, 2024
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