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THE POETIC GARDEN LEGACY OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE'S EFFIE LEE NEWSOME with REVEREND JERRI MITCHELL-LEE
This week, Cultivating Place Guest Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Reverend Jerri Mitchell-Lee. They enjoy a deep dive into the...
Oct 24, 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


KISS MY ASTER's ASTER GARDENS, with AMANDA THOMSEN
This week we’re joined by Amanda Thomsen, owner of Aster Gardens , a bespoke, sensory, and haunted plant shop in the small, Midwestern...
Oct 3, 2024


PRE-AUTUMNAL EQUINOX CELEBRATION with ERIN BENZAKEIN OF FLORET & FLORET ORIGINALS
Erin Benzakein and her husband Chris are the founders of Floret , a family-run flower farm & seed company, specializing in breeding new...
Sep 19, 2024


GARDENS IN SPACES OF INCARCERATION, with CULTURAL GEOGRAPHER DR. ELIZABETH LARA
This week, in honor of Labor Day just passed, we venture into the world of garden preservation and history through the lens of spaces of...
Sep 5, 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


NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK with THE POLLINATOR POSSE, TORA ROCHA
It’s full summer, for us and for the fauna of the Northern Hemisphere. That means many of our most charismatic, sun-loving pollinators...
Jun 27, 2024


SUMMER SOLSTICE SPECIAL: STILL, with MARY JO HOFFMAN
Happy Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern...
Jun 20, 2024


IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH: THE ANNE SPENCER HOUSE & GARDEN MUSEUM, with SHAUN SPENCER-HESTER
In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we check in on the Anne Spencer House & Garden in Lynchburg, VA. The home and garden of...
Jun 13, 2024


A YEAR FULL OF FLOWERS (IN POTS!) with UK'S SARAH RAVEN
ALL PHOTOS by Jonathan Buckley, all rights reserved. "Pots in the garden are like bubble in a glass of champagne." -Sarah Raven Sarah...
May 2, 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


WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH FINALE: GARDEN WONDERLAND, WITH LESLIE BENNETT
To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, Oakland, CA based landscape...
Mar 28, 2024


WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH: THE QUEEN OF HERBS, JEKKA MCVICAR
Happy Women’s History Month! To kick Women’s History Month off on Cultivating Place, this week we visit with the woman known as the Queen...
Mar 7, 2024


LEAP DAY SPECIAL: GARDENING CAN BE MURDER WITH MARTA MCDOWELL
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, longtime listeners of...
Mar 1, 2024


LEGENDS OF THE LEAF, WITH JANE PERRONE, HOST OF "ON THE LEDGE" PODCAST
This week - we lean into a particular aspect of our garden lives – but perhaps a favorite winter activity in the northerly climates in...
Feb 22, 2024


LIBRARY SCIENCE IS (GARDEN) LIFE SCIENCE, STACI CATRON & JENNIE OLDFIELD, CHEROKEE GARDEN LIBRARY, ATLANTA HISTORY CENTER
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of...
Feb 8, 2024


REIMAGINING MAY SARTON'S HOUSE (& GARDEN) BY THE SEA, with ARTIST/GARDENER CARLY GLOVINSKI
This week on Cultivating Place we hear the magical story of how two women, separated by time, came together to grow all of our...
Jan 11, 2024


WELCOMING WHIMSY, WONDER & THE WORK OF INTIMACY: ESME CABRERA, NATURALIST/ARTIST, LA MAMIGAMI
Esme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a born educator. Under the Instagram name “la-mamigami", Esme experiments, shares,...
Jan 4, 2024


UPROOTING, with MARCHELLE FARRELL, AFROLIAGE
Caribbean-born, British-based writer and gardener Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside,...
Dec 14, 2023
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