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THE UPLIFTING OF UJAAMA, BONNETTA ADEEB & NATHAN KLEINMAN
Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox, many of us have seeds of spring and summer foods on our minds (and...
Feb 16, 2023
FOR THE LOVE OF APPLES: MONTEZUMA ORCHARD RESTORATION PROJECT
February is upon us and we turn from a love letter to one place, to a labor of love in conserving some of the fruits of human’s labors in...
Feb 2, 2023
SEED SEASON & BIOREGIONAL SEED SENSE w/ STACEY DENTON of FLORA FARM & DESIGN STUDIO
Photos courtesy of Stacey Denton, Flora Farm & Design Studio, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This first full...
Sep 29, 2022
THE HISTORY & IMPORTANCE OF SUMMER TOMATOES, SOUTH JERSEY STYLE, HEIRLOOM ACTIVIST JEFF QUATTRONE
It’s the height of warm season crops in our gardens here in the Northern Hemisphere, and this week Cultivating Place is joined by Jeff...
Jul 28, 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
COMING TO FRUITION, FRUITION SEEDS, PETRA PAGE-MANN
Petra Page-Mann is a green growing force. She is also co-founder with her husband Matthew Goldfarb (as well as with the many people and...
Feb 3, 2022
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
THE PALESTINE HEIRLOOM SEED LIBRARY, VIVIEN SANSOUR: BEST OF
In this first month of the new year, I once again offer out the hope of Vivien Sansour's work and the hope of seeds – to bind us more...
Jan 20, 2022
JOHNNY'S SELECTED SEEDS with DAVE MELHORN, CEO & LAUREN GIROUX, PRODUCT SELECTION/TRIALING
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes...
Jan 13, 2022
THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON
To welcome the new year, we stay with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane...
Jan 6, 2022
BRAVE NEW SEED FOR A BRAVE NEW YEAR, with KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG
As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome to the year that will be, I am joined this week by seedperson and agent...
Dec 30, 2021
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
THE WILD SEED PROJECT, HEATHER MCCARGO
Fall and early winter are the perfect time in much of the Northern Hemisphere to plant bulbs, woody shrubs and trees, herbaceous...
Nov 11, 2021
REIMAGINING THE FOODSHED: AMYROSE FOLL, VIRGINIA FREE FARM
Amyrose Foll is a mother, a farmer, a business woman, of Native American Abenaki and Penobscot descent, an Army veteran - and a big...
Apr 8, 2021
SEED SEASON- HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL: REVISITING CLARE FOSTER & GROWING FLOWERS FROM SEED
In this last week of October 2020, as a nod to faith and a vote for the future growing seasons, Cultivating Place kicks off a multipart...
Oct 29, 2020
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