Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic...

February is upon us and we turn from a love letter to one place, to a labor of love in conserving some of the fruits of human’s labors in...

This week – we visit and learn from gardeners-past as we look to the future in conversation with Judith Tankard, a landscape historian,...

In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of the year—when our charismatic woody megaflora of the Northern Hemisphere—the trees—are...

Settling into November now, this week on Cultivating Place we’re conversation with three members of the horticultural team at Filoli, a...

Photos courtesy of Barton Springs Nursery, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. If you ask me, the independent...

All photos courtesy of Pam Penick, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. Pam Penick is the gardener/writer behind the...

It’s the height of warm season crops in our gardens here in the Northern Hemisphere, and this week Cultivating Place is joined by Jeff...

The Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati – 80 years of great growing, a conversation with Executive Director Karen Kahle (below is a...

San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing...

This Cultivating Place program is dedicated to two plantspeople in my region who have now passed to the great gardens and trails beyond....

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

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...

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...

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...

Last week we looked at Gardens and History through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden History through...

Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, and Day of the Dead - this week we explore the green, sacred, and communal space of a...