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
Cultivating Place: Land On Fire – A Conversation With Ecologist And Author Gary Ferguson
Late summer is fire season in the American West. A part of life.
This week Cultivating Place speaks with Gary Ferguson, author of "Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West," a collectio…
00:49:37 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Big Dreams, Small Garden – A Conversation With Marianne Willburn
In my experience, no home and garden are just perfect. And yet, they are just right if we bring the right perspective. Author and gardener Marianne Willburn shares this belief and she joins Cultivati…
00:50:52 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden – Emily Wilkins, Seattle, WA
This week on Cultivating Place we hear the next in our series of Dispatches from the Home Garden, this time from a north Seattle neighborhood where artist, gardener and aspiring vermicompost farmer E…
00:28:14 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Jinny Blom – The Thoughtful Gardener
This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Uk based garden designer Jinny Blom, whose new book is entitled “The Thoughtful Gardener: an intelligent approach to garden design”. After 17 years and …
00:50:43 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: A Wide-Angle Garden Design Education with Katharine Webster
There's something to be said for having deep and historic roots to one region – one gardening and natural history home. I have an admiration for gardeners who’ve been born and raised in the historic …
00:40:52 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: The Wild Ornamental Buckwheats!
In life, there are generalists and there are specialists. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re speaking with botanist Dr. Ben Grady about his work with ornamental buckwheats and the upcoming Eriogon…
00:53:52 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: 'Natural Selection' - A Conversation With Dan Pearson
It is full on summer. Perhaps you are in the very middle of summer holidays here at mid-July. If you are like me, there is a special anticipation to the books of summer we choose to companion us on h…
00:50:26 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Cultivating America's Gardens - Smithsonian Gardens
Over the past year of Cultivating Place interviews, we’ve heard references to the importance of the Smithsonian Gardens archives for the research of such historians, writers and gardeners as Marta Mc…
00:51:49 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Gardening Under Australian Skies, A Conversation With Home Gardener Pen Pender
This week on Cultivating Place, a conversation with a home gardener who has moved not just gardens, but continents and hemispheres. As we just reached the height of sunlight with our summer solstice,…
00:45:56 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Revisiting The Cut Flower Garden Ahead Of American Flowers Week
Next week – June 28 to July 4 – our country is celebrating American Flowers Week, celebrating American-grown flowers in 50 states. In celebration, Debra Prinzing, the founder of what’s known as the S…
00:28:00 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From the Home Garden – A Father-Daughter Garden Heritage Story
In our last Cultivating Place "Dispatches from the Home Garden," we heard from a young gardener experiencing her first garden dislocation/relocation in Sacramento, California. This week – in many way…
00:41:54 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: An Edible Feast – Edible Communities Publications Turns 15
This week on Cultivating Place we hear the story of the first 15 years of the Edible Communities – the umbrella name of the many publishers who bring you the edible communities publications across th…
00:50:14 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden – Urban Homesteading And A Garden Journey
Gardening is a specifically human endeavor. It is a characterizing feature of our species, fairly well documented throughout our evolution. Which fascinates me. And each of us come to this endeavor f…
00:45:54 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Elevated – Gardens Of The High Line, With Landscape Designer Rick Darke
What do we mean when we use the word “wild” and why does it matter? In 2017, the New York City urban landscape commonly known as The High Line celebrates its official 5th birthday. This milestone is …
00:28:00 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Paying Love’s Celebrations Forward, With Floral Designer Melinda Benson-Valavanis
Melinda Benson-Valavanis is a floral designer and owner of MCreations in Chico, CA. She recently committed her business to participating in a project called re-bloom – in which she accepts the flower…
00:27:29 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: 'Heaven Is A Garden' And 'The Spirit Of Stone' With Author Jan Johnsen
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Jan Johnsen – a gardener, landscape designer and author of the books "Heaven is a Garden" and "The Spirit of Stone,” both published by St. Lynn’s Press…
00:28:00 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Earth Wisdom – John Muir, The Accidental Taoist – With Author Raymond Barnett
Spring is a time of awakening and full sensory immersion in the world around us - even if we aren’t gardeners or nature lovers. It is hard to avoid, ignore or miss Spring’s reckless abundance and gen…
00:28:00 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Energetic – The Dynamics Of Biodynamics At Fern Verrow Farm
Close to 21 years ago, a Cordon Bleu trained chef and business woman named Jane Scotter left a busy city life in London and bought a farm. She was joined not long after by another professional chef, …
00:27:59 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: California Native Plant Week – A Conversation With Dennis Mudd, Calscape
It is California Native Plant Week this week. Officially designated by the California Native Plant Society in 2010, this year the festivities and educational and awareness activities are scheduled al…
00:27:59 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: 'Useful, With A Pleasant Degree Of Humor" – The Old Farmer's Almanac Turns 225
“Useful, with a pleasant degree of humor” — that is the tag line for the Old Farmer’s Almanac, an annual handbook for American growers, farmers and gardeners — celebrating its 225th year in publicati…
00:27:59 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
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