Sometimes unexpected paths lead us to stay–and grow–in a place we thought we were leaving. This week on Cultivating Place host Ben Futa is in conversation with Charity Stowe, founder of Herstoric Development in South Bend, Indiana. Although South Bend was her place of origin, Charity never thought she would end up there. However, after leaving as a young adult, Charity returned to South Bend on what she thought was a temporary basis with a plan to renovate a house and sell.

Seeds are essential not just to our gardens but to life on this planet across time and space. Seeds and humans have partnered since humans have walked on two feet. This week we celebrate the history and agency of individuals saving seeds in conversation with Mike Bollinger, Executive Director of Seed Savers Exchange. Seed Savers Exchange has been an iconic non-profit organization in our Garden world for more than 50 years. Founded in 1975 by Diane Ott Whealy and Kent Whealy,

Many of the systems that run our world, let alone garden our world, are built–sometimes intentionally and sometimes inadvertently–to discourage and disincentivize regenerative growing and regenerative thinking. Mark Lewis is a human who learned from gardening, and ultimately running a 354-acre regenerative organic farm, how to live into his regenerative values. Gardening and regenerative farming also demonstrated to him that if we want these values to really root in our world

Kai Wright is a gardener, but chances are good you know him as a Peabody Award-winning host, editor, and longtime journalist whose work explores the intersection of history, power, and the evolving American identity. He is co-host of The Guardian’s new video podcast: Stateside with Kai and Carter, a current events program "striving to make sense of it all." Kai’s home garden in Newburgh, NY helps ground him in all that sense-making. In between his journalism posts on Instagra

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For the next conversation in our intermittent series on what regenerative cultivation looks like in our world-at many levels–Cultivating Place is speaking this week with Dr. Garrett Liles, cofounder and faculty affiliate of The Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at California State University, Chico. The Center is all about caring cultivation of place, understanding and supporting better systems, and training the next generation in this ethos and its p

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