Following on from native plant week, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation about some of our favorite native plant visitors: our...

The third week of April is California Native Plant week, this year being celebrated by the California Native Plant Society via 8 days of...

As we enter seed sowing and plant planting season in earnest, I think we as gardeners are more aware than ever of the material costs of...

The Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now. As we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier...

Did you know that grasslands account for between 20 and 40 percent of the world's land area? Generally open, fairly flat, and accessible...

We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant...

Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The...

In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, I am thrilled to be joined...

As we turn the calendar to November, and the season to decidedly late fall and wintery in many places across the US, we look toward our...

This week, in this season of endings and beginnings again we welcome back writer, backyard tender, and heartfelt observer Margaret Renkl,...

This week our second in a two part series on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s...

As we tend toward summer’s end, with end of summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the...

In the throes of fire season in the especially the western regions of North America, this week we turn to the idea of not only gardening...

The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening...

This week before July is upon us and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so...

National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by...

No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, Wildscaping, Backyard Habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat...

Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration...

Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and monitoring...

As I write in my upcoming book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds – seeds are to the plant...