Esme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a born educator. Under the Instagram name “la-mamigami", Esme experiments, shares,...

We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant...

Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The...

Caribbean-born, British-based writer and gardener Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside,...

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...

Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a scholar, a perennial student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated...

This week, in this season of endings and beginnings again we welcome back writer, backyard tender, and heartfelt observer Margaret Renkl,...

This week our second in a two part series on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s...

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....

Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded...

It’s a big week, the week of the Solstice, and here in the US the week of Juneteenth and National Pollinator Week. In our ongoing...

National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by...

This last week of April, an "art of the garden" conversation with artist, historian, gardener and environmental advocate Rebecca Allan....

It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...

Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller, based in London, and examining with gusto and curiosity the intricacies of words and...

Rebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist. Her long bibliography epitomizes her wide ranging humanitarian interests – from...

Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox, many of us have seeds of spring and summer foods on our minds (and...

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...

Seen in overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations...