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HIGH VALUE HABITAT: PAT REYNOLDS, HERITAGE GROWERS NATIVE SEEDS & PLANTS
Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and monitoring...
May 25, 2023


SEED STRATEGIES (FOR BIODIVERSITY SUPPORT) AT SCALE, with ANDREA WILLIAMS
As I write in my upcoming book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds – seeds are to the plant...
May 18, 2023


SOIL, THE STORY OF A BLACK MOTHER'S GARDEN w/ CAMILLE DUNGY
Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections...
May 4, 2023


EARTH DAY SPECIAL: WE ARE THE ARK, IRELAND'S MARY REYNOLDS
It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...
Apr 20, 2023


CURIOSITY IN THE FIELD OF DREAMS, PLANTSMAN ROY DIBLIK
Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives’ calling to bring...
Apr 13, 2023


THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON (BEST OF)
IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...
Mar 16, 2023


BRINGING BACK THE NATIVES TOUR, KATHY KRAMER
In a continuation of Women’s History Month series, and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they...
Mar 9, 2023


THE YUROK TRIBE'S REVEGETATION PLAN & UNDAMMING of the KLAMATH BROOK THOMPSON & JOSHUA CHENOWETH
Seen in overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations...
Jan 19, 2023


A VOICE FOR PLANTS: CNPS's JUN BANDO & LIV O'KEEFE on the 30 x 30 CONSERVATION GOALS
This week we continue our multi-part series on the many facets of the global 30 x 30 conservation efforts as they continue across the...
Jan 12, 2023


CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY & HABITAT 30% x 2030, JENNIFER NORRIS
Welcome 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, and statewide and local...
Jan 5, 2023


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


PROPORTIONALITY: THE NORTHEAST NATIVE PLANT PRIMER w/ ULI LORIMER
Photos courtesy of Uli Lorimer, The Native Plant Trust, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. As we look to our fall...
Oct 6, 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


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


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


BIODIVERSITY MATTERS II: CONSERVING PLANT DIVERSITY
Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener...
Feb 17, 2022


BIODIVERSITY MATTERS: PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL, with CEO, IAN DUNN
Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants,...
Feb 10, 2022
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