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PRAIRIE UP! WITH PLANTSPERSON BENJAMIN VOGT (BEST OF)
Cultivating Plac e and Cultivating Place Live are made possible in part through the generosity of the Catto Shaw Foundation. Are you...
Jul 31, 2025
THE NATURE PLACE–LA CROSSE, WI, with REBECCA SCHWARZ & PAIGE MANGES
This week we’re getting back to nature for summer camp: ALL ages invited. We’re in conversation with Rebecca Schwarz and Paige Manges of...
Jul 17, 2025
GETTING TO KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS: PREPARING FOR POLLINATOR WEEK with COLORADO'S PPAN
Every year since 2007 when the US Senate passed sanctions declaring it, the third week of June is celebrated as National Pollinator Week....
Jun 12, 2025
TRANSFORMATIVE BEAUTY: BEN FUTA & MONTREAL-BASED DESIGNER, MARC SARDI
To welcome the fullness of June, this week on Cultivating Place , Guest host Ben Futa is back and in conversation with Marc Sardi, a...
Jun 5, 2025
NUTRITIOUS MOVEMENT & THE GARDENER, with KATY BOWMAN
Summer makes it easy to move your body – to get out for a walk, to work in the garden, to hike, bike, stroll, boat, climb, swim, dance...
May 29, 2025
RAISED BEDS, RAISED VOICES: ABRA LEE IN CONVERSATION WITH PHILADELPHIA'S GUINA HAMMOND
Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Program Manager of Public Gardens and Landscapes. She is also deeply involved...
May 22, 2025
LOVE LETTER TO A GARDEN, DEBBIE MILLMAN OF DESIGN MATTERS
22 Debbie Millman has written love letters before. Her 20 years creating and hosting the popular podcast Design Matters is just one...
Apr 10, 2025
THE CURIOUS DR. MARGARET FUNK, FLORA & FROST
This week, we’re joined by Margaret Funk, the curious gardener —and doctor— behind the Instagram handle Flora & Frost . This lovely...
Mar 6, 2025
THE COLLECTIVE & THE SEED FARMER, DAN BRISEBOIS OF TOURNE-SOL COOPERATIVE FARM, CANADA
This week – in the wind, rain, snow, and fires of early 2025 so far – it is good to be able to focus on SEEDs this week. Seeds remind us...
Jan 16, 2025
ROOTED IN JOY: PRIORITIZING REST, BALANCE, & JOY, with DANDY RAM FARM
This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is sitting in for Jennifer Jewell. He is joined by Bo Dennis, lead farmer and...
Jan 2, 2025
ALL HALLOWS EVE/SAMHAIN AND OUR WILDEST DREAMS, with JEN WILLIAMS OF WILD DREAMS FARM & SEED
Sometimes our dreams didn’t start out as our dreams. Sometimes, our current dreams were once just seeds germinating in the crucible of...
Oct 31, 2024
ALL THE WILD RHYTHMS: WILD PLANT CULTURE with JARED ROSENBAUM
Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring...
Oct 17, 2024
CP LIVE with GOLDEN STATE LINEN (FORMERLY KNOWN AS CHICO FLAX)
This week we’re so excited to air the first listen to one of our CP LIVE conversations, recorded live in front of an audience on the home...
Oct 10, 2024
THE BOTANICAL JOURNEY & LEXICON OF A CARING PLANTSPERSON, with TIM JOHNSON, NATIVE PLANT TRUST
Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and garden worlds on both personal and professional levels. Having worked with Seed Savers...
Aug 1, 2024
A DEVOTION TO THE MYSTERIUM OF PLACE AS AN ANTIDOTE TO EXISTENTIAL HOMESICKNESS with JANISSE RAY
Working under the online name Trackless Wild, Janisse Ray is an American writer, naturalist, and environmental activist. Just about...
Jul 25, 2024
GOOD CITIZENSHIP = GREAT STEWARDSHIP: NATIVE SEED/SEARCH, with ALEXANDRA ZAMECNIK
It’s the seedy time of summer. This week of the fourth of July we’re working from the premise that foundational to good citizenship is...
Jul 4, 2024
MILKWOOD PERMACULTURE - HABITS FOR HOPE IN A CHANGING WORLD, with KIRSTEN BRADLEY
ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Milkwood, all rights reserved. This week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with Kirsten Bradley,...
May 24, 2024
THE SEED DETECTIVE, with ADAM ALEXANDER
ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Adam Alexander, all rights reserved. Just in time for your continued planning, plotting, and planting in order to...
May 16, 2024
SMALL HOUSE FARM: BEAUTY & LEARNING WITH BEVIN COHEN
ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Bevin Cohen, all rights reserved. "The Garden is the heart of our Small House Farm life." -Bevin Cohen Bevin Cohen...
May 9, 2024
SEEDING CIRCULARITY: ORTA SEED POTS, WITH ANNE FLETCHER
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...
Apr 4, 2024
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