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JOY TAKES ROOT & THE LIGHT SHE FEELS INSIDE with GWENDOLYN WALLACE
Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a scholar, a perennial student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated...
Nov 9, 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...
Nov 2, 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


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 12, 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...
Oct 5, 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...
Sep 28, 2023

THE HIGH LINE, with DIRECTOR OF HORTICULTURE, RICHARD HAYDEN
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...
Sep 14, 2023


NEW YORK GREEN, with NGOC MINH NGO
To kick off September, we head to the Big Apple where at the end of the month the Garden Conservancy is holding its inaugural Garden...
Sep 7, 2023


BACK TO SCHOOL: DANCING IN THE DRAGON'S JAW DESIGN STUDIO, UNIV OF TN, with CHAD MANLEY & STUDENTS
Chad Manley is a fellow and lecturer in the school of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Nora Jacobs and...
Sep 1, 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 24, 2023


THOUGHTFUL ALCHEMY: SUSTAINABLE FLORISTRY, SHANE CONNOLLY & CO
As we tend toward summer’s end, with end of summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the...
Aug 17, 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 27, 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...
Jul 20, 2023


THE BEAUTIFUL CHAOS OF GARDEN INSPIRED LIVING: OKLAHOMA-BASED LINDA VATER
The garden in summer is what we all dream of: some down time, some play time, fresh flavors, fragrances, and of course, flowers and fun....
Jul 13, 2023


SUMMER GARDEN READING LIST: HEDGE, with NOVELIST JANE DELURY
Novelist Jane Delury describes herself as a fledgling (maybe seedling?) gardener after 8 years into gardening being part of her everyday...
Jul 6, 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


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...
Jun 22, 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 15, 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...
Jun 1, 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...
May 4, 2023
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