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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


PRESERVATION & TRANSFORMATION: SAN FRANCISCO'S GREENHOUSE PROJECT, w/ CAITLYN GALLOWAY
San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing...
Jul 7, 2022


THE GENEROSITY & MUTUAL CARE OF SEEDS: KEN GREENE OF HUDSON VALLEY SEED COMPANY
Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first...
Jun 30, 2022


NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK & POLLINATION ECOLOGY with DR. MONIKA EGERER
It is really and truly summer now. Are your gardens and parks full of the sound, movements, and magic of winged life – the fluttering of...
Jun 23, 2022


THE POWER OF LOCAL GARDEN KNOWLEDGE: IN THE COASTAL GARDEN, with LYONS FILMER & SUSAN HAYES
This Cultivating Place program is dedicated to two plantspeople in my region who have now passed to the great gardens and trails beyond....
May 26, 2022


SAGING THE WORLD, PREPARING FOR CA NATIVE PLANT WEEK, ROSE RAMIREZ & DEBORAH SMALL
Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...
Apr 7, 2022


THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI
John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...
Mar 31, 2022


A SCIENTIST'S QUEST FOR NATURE'S NEXT MEDICINES, DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE
In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...
Mar 24, 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


A CONSERVATION OF GENEROSITY & RELATIONSHIPS, GARY PAUL NABHAN
Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...
Dec 23, 2021


GROWING FLAVOR - PAST & PRESENT, CHEF DAVE SMOKE MCCLUSKEY's CORN MAFIA
This week we explore some farmer and seasonal food connections with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and grower/producer...
Oct 21, 2021


THE GREENHORNS & THE NEW FARMERS ALMANAC ENVISIONING A FERTILE FUTURE
As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy and beginning to consider next season, forward planning, this week we...
Oct 14, 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 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


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


SEASONAL & ELEMENTAL: CALLING ALL TOMATOMANIACS
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...
Apr 22, 2021


BALANCED SYSTEMS THINKING & TEK, Lorena Gorbet, Maidu Summit Consortium
As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in...
Mar 12, 2021


BEAUTY & BALANCE: GARDENS OF THE HIGH DESERT, JUDITH PHILLIPS
Judith Phillips is a renowned landscape designer, founder and principle of Design Oasis, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the past...
Oct 22, 2020
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