Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...

John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...

In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...

Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener...

Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants,...

Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...

This week we explore some farmer and seasonal food connections with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and grower/producer...

As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy and beginning to consider next season, forward planning, this week we...

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...

Hannah Gardner is a gardener, writer, and mother – she is a garden designer and plantswoman with a passion for traveling the world to...

CAITLIN ATKINSON is a photographer of places, spaces, and all things botanical. A child-hood spent in the Sierra Nevada foothills among...

It's Spring in the northern hemisphere (even snow is still making visitations to parts of the North American as I speak to you) and...

As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in...

Judith Phillips is a renowned landscape designer, founder and principle of Design Oasis, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the past...

This week on Cultivating Place we take a summer amble with British-based Californian Kathryn Aalto – an historian, garden designer, and...

This week, in the midst of chaos and questioning, Cultivating Place’s Women’s History Month interviews get to the very basics of...

Last week we were in the herbs, this week we move to the rest of the food pantry and I mean the rest – from peanuts to beans and rice,...

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...

Melina Sempill Watts is a watershed coordinator, plant lover, and author. A life-long lover of plants, in a longterm, committed...

Just three months since California’s November 2018 Fires made global headlines, the great winter greening of the state of California is...