Jennifer Jewell

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 practices. The...

To welcome October, this week on Cultivating Place, host Ben Futa is in conversation with Colleen Raney of Washington State’s Songbird Seed Company and Diadem Flower Company. Colleen is the founder of Songbird Seed Co., a seed company devoted to the cultivation and preservation of exceptional sweet peas. What started as a personal fascination with the sweet pea, became a deeper study of their history, varieties, cultivation, and extraordinary diversity. Today, Colleen grows hundreds of sweet...

Happy Autumn! Cultivating Place is proud to launch an occasional series from host Abra Lee, delving into our Garden past in order to more fully understand and illuminate our Garden present and future. Sometimes we have to look back to grow forward! This week, Abra shares with Jennifer Jewell her passion and admiration for, as well as research into, an intrepid and unflagging cultivator of place from our past in Virginia’s Tidewater Region: Asa Sims. A businessman, educator, floral grower, and...