In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the...

Nitasha Manchanda is a genetic scientist, a mother, a wife, a gardener and the creator and host of a podcast series entitled The Indian...

Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...

John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...

In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...

Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her...

This week, a timely and rich with agency conversation on gardens by and for refugee populations.Areti Athanasopoulos is a Denver,...

Having just completed Black History Month and just entered Women’s History Month, today - International Women's Day seemed like the...

Andrew Montgomery is a British-based garden photographer. His new book, Winter Gardens, celebrates the very specific beauty of the winter...

Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener...

Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants,...

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...

Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A...

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...

As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes...

To welcome the new year, we stay with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane...

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...

Diamond Bright Raindrops on Lupine Leaves - Winter Butte County CA And so here we are – full solar and close to full calendar circle. The...

Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...

Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is a time of dormancy for the plant and animal kingdoms alike. While it may look very still and quiet,...

As another offering to all of you in your gardens tending toward the Solstice in just a few weeks on December 21st, this week we are in...

As we edge toward a whole new winter under the twists and turns of the Covid-19 Pandemic, now closing in on two years, we’re speaking...

This week I am thankful for good food, and the many souls who grow it for us all year long – around the world, really, but This week we...

Native Sycamore love in late season foliage, late day light. It is the thankful season. In a year and a time where what divides us, what...