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SPRING EQUINOX SPECIAL - PRACTICING RE-ENCHANTMENT: ENCOUNTERING DRAGONFLIES, with BROOKE WILLIAMS
Happy Spring Equinox! To welcome Spring — especially this exact Spring in the US — practicing re-enchantment in our world seemed exactly...
Mar 20


ALL FLOURISHING IS MUTUAL: ROBIN WALL KIMMERER (BEST OF)
In this week's best of conversation, Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer reminds us that All flourishing is mutual.
Nov 21, 2024


ALL THE WILD RHYTHMS: WILD PLANT CULTURE with JARED ROSENBAUM
Jared Rosenbaum is a botanist and Certified Ecological Restoration Practitioner with extensive experience in stewardship and monitoring...
Oct 17, 2024


THE SEED DETECTIVE, with ADAM ALEXANDER
ALL PHOTOS courtesy of Adam Alexander, all rights reserved. Just in time for your continued planning, plotting, and planting in order to...
May 17, 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


THINKING LIKE A HEALTHY HABITAT (RADICALLY & RADIALLY), with SID HILL, ECOLOGICAL LAND ARTISAN
We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant...
Dec 28, 2023


KINSHIP & BELONGING IN A WORLD OF RELATIONS: BEST OF
In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power...
Nov 23, 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 26, 2023


GOOD CITIZENSHIP & RIGHT RELATIONSHIP: GOING BEYOND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, REDBUD RESOURCE GROUP
This week before July is upon us and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so...
Jun 29, 2023


THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, A NATURAL HISTORY (AND A LOVE STORY), MICHAEL KAUFFMANN & JUSTIN GARWOOD
This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023, by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region...
Jan 26, 2023


SAGING THE WORLD, PREPARING FOR CA NATIVE PLANT WEEK, ROSE RAMIREZ & DEBORAH SMALL
Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...
Apr 7, 2022


A SCIENTIST'S QUEST FOR NATURE'S NEXT MEDICINES, DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE
In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...
Mar 24, 2022

A CONSERVATION OF GENEROSITY & RELATIONSHIPS, GARY PAUL NABHAN
Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...
Dec 23, 2021

FINDING SOLACE IN THE SOIL: GARDENS & GARDENERS OF AMACHE, JAPANESE AMERICAN PRISON CAMP
Bonnie J. Clark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of...
Jul 8, 2021

CULTIVATING INTENTION: ALI MEDERS-KNIGHT, MECHOOPDA MAIDU
Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda Tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California. A...
Jul 1, 2021


BALANCED SYSTEMS THINKING & TEK, Lorena Gorbet, Maidu Summit Consortium
As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in...
Mar 12, 2021


THE POWER OF BOTANICAL MYTHOLOGY with MATT HALL
Matt Hall is a husband, father, and gardener deeply interested in how our cultural mythologies can produce and support cultures of...
Jul 16, 2020


BEST OF: THE DANGER GARDEN, LOREE BOHL
Today we revisit a Best of Dispatches from the Home Garden episode. We do this in part because I love this episode, because it is...
Jan 25, 2019


FRUIT: THE CURRENCY OF MEMORY, SARA BIR
For Sara Bir – food librarian, forager, chef and author – fruit are sweet, delicious, sexy and tactile – but every bit as important –...
Jan 18, 2019


PLANT-COLORED GLASSES, A BOTANIST'S LIFE: LINNEA HANSON & NORTHERN CA BOTANISTS
Seeing the world through plant-colored glasses: Linnea Hanson is a career field botanist, and founder of Northern California Botanists....
Jan 10, 2019
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