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.
Philosophy
Higher Education
Natural Sciences
Arts
Society & Culture
Government & Organizations
Science & Medicine
Education
Non-Profit
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 54 minutes
- Episodes
- 500
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
The Holy Earth & The Nature Study Idea, John Stempien on the Legacy of Liberty Hyde Bailey
In this holy season of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, with the earth reviving herself in greenery and flowers, birds, bees, and butterflies all around us, I am so pleased to be in conversation to…
01:00:08 |
Thu 17 Apr 2025
Love Letter to a Garden, Debbie Millman of Design Matters
Debbie Millman has written love letters before. Her 20 years of creating and hosting the popular podcast Design Matters is just one of them.
Her many books, several of them established reference bo…
00:59:20 |
Thu 10 Apr 2025
The Vibrant New Natural Gardening of Kelly D. Norris
You might remember Cultivating Place's first conversation with Iowa-based plantsman, Kelly D. Norris, back in 2021, in celebration of his book New Naturalism, designing and planting a resilient, ecol…
01:05:24 |
Thu 03 Apr 2025
Transformational: From banker to trailblazing IDEA leader in public horticulture, Mae Lin Plummer
This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with a horticultural leader with big IDEAs. Mae Lin Plummer is the Director of the IDEA Center for Public Gardens in Denver Colo…
00:57:59 |
Thu 27 Mar 2025
Spring Equinox Special - Practicing re-enchantment: Encountering Dragonflies with Brooke Williams
Happy Spring Equinox!
To welcome Spring – especially this exact Spring in the US - practicing re-enchantment in our world seemed exactly the right focus. I think this is part of what Gardeners do: p…
01:12:48 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Life is Big: To Be A Poet Gardener, Tess Taylor
Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the plants in every cell of your body, it’s springtime! An award-winnin…
01:05:04 |
Thu 13 Mar 2025
The Curious Dr. Margaret Funk, Flora & Frost
Dr. Margaret Funk is the curious Midwest gardener (and doctor) behind the online name Flora & Frost. Cultivating her Minnesota garden for years, like so many of us, she really dove in deep in 2020.
…
00:57:17 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
From East Africa to the World, landscape design's Wambui Ippolito
From East Africa to the World, landscape design's Wambui Ippolito by Jennifer Jewell
00:53:23 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Portrait of A Black Woman in Her Garden: Leslie Bennett, Pine House Edible Gardens & Black Sanctuary Gardens
In celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women’s History Month - this week we’re so pleased to air another of our CP LIVE: Dialogues to Grow By conversations, recorded live in fro…
01:18:27 |
Thu 20 Feb 2025
The Curiosity Driven Growing Life of Australia's Michael McCoy
Many things motivate and drive us to love gardening, plants, and nature. Australia’s Michael McCoy, also known as The Gardenist, is a Gardener, botanist, designer, teacher, and international garden t…
00:59:31 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
The Power of Public Green Spaces: NY's Elizabeth Street Garden with Joseph Reiver
The Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City’s Little Italy and SoHo neighborhoods is a one-acre public garden founded in 1991 by Allan Reiver, an artist and art dealer who passed in 2021. The lot on…
00:53:39 |
Thu 06 Feb 2025
Creativity, Self-Knowledge, and Artistic Ingenuity: Passionflower Sue
Creativity is one of those anchors-to-windward in unsettled and worrisome times. So is a hands-on, creative project – with bonus points for working with organic materials (natural fibers, clay, or – …
01:05:16 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
Got Topiary? A conversation with plantsman/artist Mike Gibson
This week, Guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with legendary topiary artist and star of the HGTV hit show Clipped, Mike ‘Gibby-Siz’ Gibson. Mike is based out of sunny Columbia, South Carolina, wh…
00:54:02 |
Thu 23 Jan 2025
The Collective & The Seed Farmer, Dan Brisebois
This week – in the wind, rain, snow, and fires of early 2025 so far – it is good to be able to focus on SEEDs this week – seeds remind us so tangibly of our ability to get small, to slow down into a …
01:05:58 |
Thu 16 Jan 2025
Resolution Support: The Five-Minute Gardener, Nicole Burke of Gardener
Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening, or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week’s Cultivating Place conversation is all about making time for gardening even for very bu…
01:02:48 |
Thu 09 Jan 2025
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025: Prioritizing Rest, Balance, and JOY, with Dandy Ram Farm
To ring in the New Year, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is in conversation with Bo Dennis, lead farmer and designer of Dandy Ram farm, located in rural Maine. Dandy Ram is an LGB…
00:55:12 |
Thu 02 Jan 2025
WINTER SOLSTICE SEASON SPECIAL: Being Still, with Mary Jo Hoffman (BEST OF)
Happy Winter Solstice season!
In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest night and the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, which took place on December 21st, this week w…
01:22:47 |
Thu 26 Dec 2024
The King of Camellias, Sidney Frazier of Middleton Place, Charleston, SC
This week, CP Guest Host Abra Lee celebrates the season in conversation with the King of Camellias, Sidney Frazier. Sidney is based out of sunny Charleston, South Carolina, where he sits as Vice Pres…
00:53:28 |
Thu 19 Dec 2024
Arboreal Obsession and Growing the World: The Tree Collectors, with Amy Stewart
Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of things like pots, books, seeds, and - of course - plants. Some plant collecting gardeners collect flowers, shrubs, herbs or seeds. Others collect tre…
01:01:37 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
The Garden of Words with Katie Elzer-Peters
This week, Cultivating Place’s guest host, Ben Futa, is in conversation with Katie Elzer-Peters, owner and founder of The Garden of Words, a digital marketing agency for the green industry. Katie is …
00:54:56 |
Thu 05 Dec 2024
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place. This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.