Cultivating Place
Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring what we mean when we garden. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place illustrates the many ways in which gardens are integral to our natural and cultural literacy. These conversations celebrate how these interconnections support the places we cultivate, how they nourish our bodies, and feed our spirits. Take a listen.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 500
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Mum's the Flower of Fall, with Jessica Hall of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm
This week on Cultivating Place, we celebrate late summer and fall on the horizon in conversation about one of fall’s stars in the garden… past, present, and future.
CP host Ben Futa is in conversati…
00:57:59 |
Thu 04 Sep 2025
Seed Your Future, with Jazmin Albarran
This week on Cultivating Place, host Abra Lee dives into the world of pathways to plant professions with Jazmin Albarran, executive Director of Seed Your Future, a non-profit whose vision is a world …
00:53:44 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
The Generosity of an Orchard: The Giving Grove
As autumn and harvest begins to color the edges of our awareness, this week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by two people whose work is all about perennial and abundant harvest as represented by t…
01:17:19 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Back to a Source: the Somme Prairie Grove Nature Preserve
Looking back, even just this year, Cultivating Place has had multiple conversations with plantspeople from around the country about the inspirational plants from, and places known as, prairies.
An …
01:07:07 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
Bright Autumn Nights - GLEAM at Olbrich Botanical Gardens
Hot August nights turn to bright August nights at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI.
The Garden's annual GLEAM light show is celebrating its 10th anniversary and opens August 30th, trans…
00:54:29 |
Thu 07 Aug 2025
Prairie Up! With Plantsperson Benjamin Vogt (BEST OF)
Ahhh, high summer, my friends – this week we continue with our CP summer-break reprisals, reminding us of the importance of the great outdoors and the care and cultivation of it, revisiting ecologica…
01:02:12 |
Thu 31 Jul 2025
Coming to our Senses: Wildscape, with Master Naturalist Nancy Lawson (BEST OF)
The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening, and even rotting.
This week, we revisit a BEST OF conversatio…
01:00:05 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
The Nature Place–La Crosse, WI, with Rebecca Schwarz & Paige Manges
This week we’re getting back to nature for summer camp: ALL ages invited.
We’re in conversation with Rebecca Schwarz and Paige Manges of The Nature Place in La Crosse, WI. It’s a place where we all…
00:54:43 |
Thu 17 Jul 2025
A Global Garden Adventurer, Plantswoman Lucie Willan
This week on Cultivating Place, you are in for a real summer adventure on a global garden armchair tour of sorts with a plantswoman who has studied and gardened at some of the Western world’s best fr…
01:04:12 |
Thu 10 Jul 2025
July 4th Special: Great Expectations, CP LIVE with Ben Futa of Botany & CO, South Bend, IN
THIS WEEK on CP - OUR NEXT CP LIVE podcast! And we head to Indiana with our very own Ben Futa. Botany & Co. in South Bend, Indiana is dedicated to “empowering more people to plant more plants in more…
01:02:47 |
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Rooted in Education, Richard M. Smith, Director, NYBG School of Professional Horticulture
This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is joined in conversation by someone whose path into horticulture is both inspiring and honest—Richard M. Smith, director of the School of Professi…
00:54:38 |
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Midsummer's Night Magic, with Leigh Ann Henion
Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder – someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible diversity of moths.
Creatures whose lives benefit ours and ye…
01:04:41 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
Getting to know our neighbors: Preparing for National Pollinator Week with Colorado's PPAN
Every year since 2007, when the US Senate passed sanctions declaring it, the third week of June is celebrated as National Pollinator Week.
It is no accident that this is the same week as the Summer…
01:17:05 |
Thu 12 Jun 2025
Transformative Beauty: Ben Futa in conversation with Montreal-based floral designer Marc Sardi
To welcome the fullness of June, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is back and in conversation with Marc Sardi, a Montreal-based scientist turned floral artist who has reinvented hi…
00:55:47 |
Thu 05 Jun 2025
Nutritious Movement & The Gardener, with Katy Bowman
Summer makes it easy to move your body – to get out for a walk, to work in the garden, to hike, bike, stroll, boat, climb, swim, dance under the stars. Whatever calls you. But as we know, many of us …
01:07:11 |
Thu 29 May 2025
Raised Beds, Raised Voices: Guest Host Abra Lee in Conversation with Philly's Guina Hammond
Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's program manager of sustainable communities. She is also deeply involved in her hometown of Philadelphia as a certified organic landcare profe…
00:58:50 |
Thu 22 May 2025
That Green Thing Inside US ALL, Jill Mays on Nurturing Nature, Gardening for Special Needs
As the summer gardening season rolls into full-throated song, the idea of who has access to the work, joy, and benefits of this practice also comes into view—and feeds what Occupational Therapist and…
00:58:41 |
Thu 15 May 2025
A Beautiful Journey, Plantswoman Holly Shimizu, Emeritus Director US Botanic Garden
This second week of May, we welcome gardener and plantswoman Holly Shimizu. Her four decades of work in some of America’s notable public gardens have tracked and traced some of the most impactful cha…
01:01:49 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Happy May Day! Growing Home: Humble Roots & The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer
This week on Cultivating Place we welcome May, with all of her floral and plant profusion, revisiting a conversation we loved with Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt of Humble Roots Nursery in Oregon’…
01:05:13 |
Thu 01 May 2025
For the Love of Soil, Start with Soil: Juliet Sargeant
Juliet Sargeant is an award-winning English garden designer who blends beauty with purpose in every space she creates. Juliet’s unique background in medicine, science, and psychology gives her design…
01:01:57 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
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