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SEEDS FOR THE CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE, LARNER SEEDS, JUDITH LARNER LOWRY
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A...
Jan 27, 2022
TROPHIC CASCADES WITH POET & GARDENER CAMILLE DUNGY
As another offering to all of you in your gardens tending toward the Solstice in just a few weeks on December 21st, this week we are in...
Dec 9, 2021
GARDENING IN SUMMER DRY CLIMATES with PHOTOJOURNALIST SAXON HOLT
In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, we’re joined this week by...
Oct 7, 2021
THE LAND BEYOND THE TREES, THE BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS - VAIL,CO
This week we continue our high elevation garden lens in Vail, Colorado at The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, leaders in the research and...
Aug 5, 2021
THE OUTSIDER, BOTANIZING GLOBALLY, GROWING LOCALLY with HANNAH GARDNER, UK
Hannah Gardner is a gardener, writer, and mother – she is a garden designer and plantswoman with a passion for traveling the world to...
Jul 22, 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
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
GARDENER GROWING: UPROOTED, WITH PAGE DICKEY
Page Dickey is a gardener, garden designer, author and editor of many notable garden books, and the co-founder of the Garden...
Feb 25, 2021
HOMEGROWN HOPE, with DOUG TALLAMY of 'NATURE'S BEST HOPE'
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our FRESH STARTS series in conversation with a long established friend in the gardening...
Jan 14, 2021
NAVIGATING BY PLANTS: ULI LORIMER & THE NATIVE PLANT TRUST
Uli Lorimer is director of Horticulture for the Native Plant Trust in Massachusetts. His work as a native plant and biodiversity advocate...
Apr 30, 2020
ALL THE HERBS OF THE SEASON with SUE GOETZ
We’re past the fall back time change here in the US and for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere generally the days are noticeably...
Nov 14, 2019
FIRESCAPING: IN HONOR OF THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAMPFIRE, with DOUGLAS KENT, CALLI-JANE DE
Almost one year ago, on November 8th 2018, the CampFire broke out in Butte County California Cited as the deadliest and most destructive...
Nov 7, 2019
HIGH GROUND: PENSTEMONS & OTHER ALPINE PLANTS, MIKE KINTGEN, CURATOR OF ALPINE PLANTS, DENVER BO
"Alpine plants are very cute - deep down they remind of the beautiful mountain habitats that they live in. Even on a day when I haven’t...
Aug 22, 2019
THE GARDEN AS CRUCIBLE & PLANTING RAINBOWS, with MEG HERNDON AND SANDRA NAM CIOFFI
"a home is a very special place and, as we both have come to learn, how to nurture it - to literally build it and then feed the children...
Aug 15, 2019
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: WILD YARDS PROJECT, DAVID NEWSOM
“the minute our daughter was born, I suddenly became aware of this howling urban center that’s just 70 feet from my house, and the lack...
Aug 8, 2019
READING THE LANDSCAPE with COURTNEY ALLEN, NATIVE PLANT TRUST
This week we kick off a multi-episode series looking at the work of native plant organizations and gardeners on the ground and around the...
Aug 1, 2019
WAVE HILL & LIFELONG LEARNING AS GARDENERS, with LOUIS BAUER
Happy Valentines Day! It is mid-winter, official spring is 5 weeks away, our days are still quite a bit shorter than our nights, and the...
Feb 14, 2019
The Audacity of Being Interconnected to the More Than Human: Tree, by Melina Sempill Watts
Melina Sempill Watts is a watershed coordinator, plant lover, and author. A life-long lover of plants, in a longterm, committed...
Feb 7, 2019
FIRE RECOVERY GUIDE, WITH JULIE EVENS AND GREG SUBA of THE CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY
Just three months since California’s November 2018 Fires made global headlines, the great winter greening of the state of California is...
Feb 4, 2019
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