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Nov 2, 2023
GROWING HOME: HUMBLE ROOTS NURSERY & THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVE PLANT PRIMER
As we turn the calendar to November, and the season to decidedly late fall and wintery in many places across the US, we look toward our...
Oct 26, 2023
FLORA & FORAGE, and THE SECRET STORIES OF WILDFLOWERS, BLUE RIDGE BOTANIC's NINA VETETO
This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto a plantswoman, conservationist, artist, and expert...
Oct 12, 2023
STAR-GAZING, YARD-SHARING, IMAGINATION & COMMUNITY ACTIVATING, OLLY COSTELLO DRAWS US TOGETHER
This week on Cultivating Place we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant loving and garden growing lives in...
Oct 5, 2023
WHO IS 'joe gardener'? A CONVERSATION WITH JOE LAMP'L, GROWING A GREENER WORLD
This week we enjoy a conversation with a gardener and garden guru well known and loved: Joe Lamp’l of the famed and award-winning Growing...
Aug 24, 2023
BACK TO SCHOOL: THE INSTITUTE FOR FOOD FARM at MIAMI UNIVERSITY of OHIO
Can you believe it is already back to school season? This week we look to what back to school means for our lifelong learning and plants....
Aug 3, 2023
QUANTIFYING THE VALUE OF NATIVE PLANTS FOR GARDENS, SAM HOADLEY MT CUBA CENTER
Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation...
Jul 27, 2023
OLBRICH BOTANICAL GARDENS CENTERING PLANTS & PEOPLE OF MADISON, WI, with HORTICULTURIST ERIN PRESLEY
Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded...
Jul 20, 2023
COMING TO OUR SENSES, "WILDSCAPE," with NANCY LAWSON
The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening...
Jun 15, 2023
THE (CALIFORNIA) BUMBLE BEE ATLAS, LEIF RICHARDSON of XERCES SOCIETY
National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by...
Jun 8, 2023
GARDEN FOR WILDLIFE, CELEBRATING 50 YEARS, with NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION's MARY PHILLIPS
No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, Wildscaping, Backyard Habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat...
Jun 1, 2023
NORMALIZING NATIVE PLANT LANDSCAPE JOY w/ THE THEODORE PAYNE FOUNDATION
Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration...
May 25, 2023
HIGH VALUE HABITAT: PAT REYNOLDS, HERITAGE GROWERS NATIVE SEEDS & PLANTS
Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and monitoring...
May 18, 2023
SEED STRATEGIES (FOR BIODIVERSITY SUPPORT) AT SCALE, with ANDREA WILLIAMS
As I write in my upcoming book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds – seeds are to the plant...
May 4, 2023
SOIL, THE STORY OF A BLACK MOTHER'S GARDEN w/ CAMILLE DUNGY
Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award winning often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections...
Apr 20, 2023
EARTH DAY SPECIAL: WE ARE THE ARK, IRELAND'S MARY REYNOLDS
It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...
Apr 13, 2023
CURIOSITY IN THE FIELD OF DREAMS, PLANTSMAN ROY DIBLIK
Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives’ calling to bring...
Apr 6, 2023
PRAIRIE UP! BENJAMIN VOGT, MONARCH GARDENS
I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snow drops in...
Mar 16, 2023
THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON (BEST OF)
IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...
Mar 9, 2023
BRINGING BACK THE NATIVES TOUR, KATHY KRAMER
In a continuation of Women’s History Month series, and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they...
Feb 23, 2023
ORCHARD: WINTER KEEPERS, COOKERS & CIDERS, with UK'S JAMES RICH
This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with home grown ones, a...
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