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THE COMFORT OF CROWS, A BACKYARD YEAR, with MARGARET RENKL
This week, in this season of endings and beginnings again we welcome back writer, backyard tender, and heartfelt observer Margaret Renkl,...
Oct 19, 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


WHAT WE SOW, JENNIFER JEWELL & GUEST HOST DAVE SCHLOM, of BLUE DOT
On this special edition of the show, our guest will be Cultivating Place’s wonderful host, Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer has a new book out...
Sep 21, 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


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


FIRESCAPING YOUR HOME (HABITAT GARDEN), DR. ADRIENNE EDWARDS & RACHEL SCHLEIGER
In the throes of fire season in the especially the western regions of North America, this week we turn to the idea of not only gardening...
Aug 10, 2023


QUANTIFYING THE VALUE OF NATIVE PLANTS FOR GARDENS, SAM HOADLEY MT CUBA CENTER
Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation...
Aug 3, 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


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 (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


GARDEN FOR WILDLIFE, CELEBRATING 50 YEARS, with NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION's MARY PHILLIPS
No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, Wildscaping, Backyard Habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat...
Jun 8, 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


HIGH VALUE HABITAT: PAT REYNOLDS, HERITAGE GROWERS NATIVE SEEDS & PLANTS
Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and monitoring...
May 25, 2023


SEED STRATEGIES (FOR BIODIVERSITY SUPPORT) AT SCALE, with ANDREA WILLIAMS
As I write in my upcoming book, What We Sow, on the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds – seeds are to the plant...
May 18, 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

EARTH DAY SPECIAL: WE ARE THE ARK, IRELAND'S MARY REYNOLDS
It is now Mid-April and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are...
Apr 20, 2023


CURIOSITY IN THE FIELD OF DREAMS, PLANTSMAN ROY DIBLIK
Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives’ calling to bring...
Apr 13, 2023


THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON (BEST OF)
IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...
Mar 16, 2023
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