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Jan 9
RESOLUTION SUPPORT: THE 5-MINUTE GARDENER with NICOLE BURKE, GARDENER
Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week is all about gardening even...
Jan 2
ROOTED IN JOY: PRIORITIZING REST, BALANCE, & JOY, with DANDY RAM FARM
This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is sitting in for Jennifer Jewell. He is joined by Bo Dennis, lead farmer and...
Sep 12, 2024
SOMETHING IN THE WOODS LOVES YOU, JAROD K. ANDERSON
Jarod K. Anderson is a poet and nature enthusiast - his book, Something in the Woods Loves You – “the story of the darkest stretch of a...
May 30, 2024
REWARDING GREAT DESIGN: DESIGN FUTURIST AWARDS, with SARAH BECK, PACIFIC HORTICULTURE
With the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK just completed, the gardening world as a whole has the concept of Garden Design awards and...
Dec 14, 2023
UPROOTING, with MARCHELLE FARRELL, AFROLIAGE
Caribbean-born, British-based writer and gardener Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside,...
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...
Sep 28, 2023
FROM JOYFUL PARTICIPATION IN A WORLD OF SORROWS TO COSMOSIS, ARTIST LIBBY ELLIS
As we move toward October, the first in what will be a few intermittent episodes across fall and winter reminding us of the artistry...
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....
Jun 22, 2023
SOLSTICE SEASON: MARKING & MAKING MEANING, DAY SCHILDKRET of MORNING ALTARS
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...
Mar 23, 2023
THE W.W. SEYMOUR BOTANICAL CONSERVATORY, TACOMA, WA, with PLANTSWOMAN TYRA SHENAURLT
As we come toward the finale of Women’s history month, this week we head Northwest - to Tacoma, Washington. Horticulturist/Plantswoman...
Dec 22, 2022
TO BE A GARDENER, COMMUNITY-RESTORATION ECOLOGIST, CRIS SARABIA
This episode is dedicated to the remarkable and beloved P-22, the mountain lion who made LA his home, captured our imaginations, and...
Nov 25, 2022
THANKFUL: A THOUSAND WAYS TO PAY ATTENTION, WITH REBECCA SCHILLER
Rebecca Schiller is a gardener, a smallholding steward, an activist, and women's rights campaigner - founder and trustee of human rights...
Sep 22, 2022
REGENERATION FROM AN INTENTION OF DEEP JOY AND FUN, FARMER RISHI
Photos courtesy of Farmer Rishi and the Sarvodaya Institute, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This week on...
Aug 18, 2022
THE PRAIRIE GARDENER GO-TO GUIDES, with CANADIAN GARDENER JANET MELROSE
In our ongoing exploration of where gardeners are and what they are doing in our world right now, I am very pleased to head pretty far...
Aug 11, 2022
TEST PLOT FOR A COMMUNITY-BASED LAND STEWARDSHIP ETHIC, with JEN TOY & JENNY JONES
This week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with Jenny Jones and Jen Toy. They are gardeners, landscape architects, and caring...
Jun 24, 2022
NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK & POLLINATION ECOLOGY with DR. MONIKA EGERER
It is really and truly summer now. Are your gardens and parks full of the sound, movements, and magic of winged life – the fluttering of...
Jun 9, 2022
LONG LIVE LOVE FOUNDATION & THEIR SERENITY HEALING GARDEN
This week we consider the idea of mental health and our gardens from an even more poignant perspective. In the wake of the recent Uvalde...
May 12, 2022
GETTING GARDENFIT FOR LIFELONG GARDENING, WITH MADELINE HOOPER & JEFF HUGHES
In the interest of maintaining my own lifelong love of gardening until the very very last moment possible, and all of you gardeners out...
Apr 21, 2022
EARTH DAY - PARKS FOR THE NATURE OF EVERYONE, OLMSTED200
In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the...
Apr 7, 2022
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...
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