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

Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation and monitoring...

I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snow drops in...

IN honor of both seed sowing season and women’s history month – this week we revisit a favorite - focusing on seeding our imaginations in...

This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with home grown ones, a...

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...

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...

Welcome 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, and statewide and local...

In this week after Veterans Day here in the US, and in this season clarifying that gratitude is one of the greatest gifts of the garden...

Photos courtesy of Stacey Denton, Flora Farm & Design Studio, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This first full...

Photos courtesy of Farmer Rishi and the Sarvodaya Institute, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This week on...

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...

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...

It’s the height of summer farmers markets as community hubs, and this week we're in conversation with Cheetah Tchudi co-founder with his...

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

Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first...

Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...

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...

Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her...