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ROOTED IN THE FUTURE: CULTIVATING THE NEXT GENERATION OF HORTICULTURE, JAZMIN ALBARRAN
This week on Cultivating Place , host Abra Lee dives into the world of pathways to plant professions with Jazmin Albarran, Executive...
Aug 28, 2025
THE GENEROSITY OF AN ORCHARD: THE GIVING GROVE
As autumn and harvest begins to color the edges of our awareness, this week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by two people whose work...
Aug 21, 2025
BACK TO THE SOURCE: THE SOMME PRAIRIE GROVE NATURE PRESERVE
Looking back, even just this year, Cultivating Place has had multiple conversations with plantspeople from around the country about the...
Aug 14, 2025
BRIGHT AUTUMN NIGHTS—GLEAM AT OLBRICH BOTANICAL GARDENS
Hot August nights turn to bright August nights at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI. The Garden's annual GLEAM light show is...
Aug 7, 2025
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
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