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: The Garden Conservancy’s 2017 Open Days Directory, With Laura Wilson
If you’re like me, you love getting out into your own garden, but visiting someone else’s garden is almost as good — there’s just less weeding required. The end of March/beginning of April is also th…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: 'The Chinese Kitchen Garden' With Wendy Kiang-Spray
Gardenways and "The Chinese Kitchen Garden" - a conversation with gardener and author, Wendy Kiang-Spray
I am fairly accustomed to hearing the phrases “folk ways” and “food ways” and even ‘music way…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Harvest – Stefani Bittner, Alethea Harampolis
Sometimes when you use the word garden – people immediately conjure up images of the ornamental perennial border, other people however conjure up colorful visions of the summer vegetable garden. In J…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: The Irish Garden With Fionnuala Fallon, Correspondent For The Irish Times
It is the eve of St. Patrick’s Day and it does seem that even if you’re not Irish per se, St. Patrick’s Day brings out a little bit of Irish in us all. And while I have no interest in green beer, I d…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden – Christin Geall, Victoria, BC
Every garden has a story as does every gardener. In our next in the occasional series of Dispatches From the Home Garden, today we travel to the Pacific Northwest and cross the border to Canada, wher…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: 'The Cut Flower Farm' – Erin Benzakein And The Flower Farmer Revolution
There is a flower farming revolution sweeping across our country and I for one am all for it. A few months back, Cultivating Place was joined by Debra Prinzing, the founder of the aptly named “slow f…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Presentation Is Everything—The Garden-Based Pottery Of Artist Frances Palmer
As gardeners or naturalists, we often share an urge to display our love – flowers or fruits of the season arranged in bottles and vases, in bowls and on platters. The deep beauty of the harvest and t…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: The Roses Have It - Early Spring Rose Care And Rose Societies With Jolene Adams
Late winter early spring might be kind of quiet in the garden in terms of flowers, but it is very busy in terms of plant care – especially in the care of keeping of our roses. Roses are a favorite o…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden #1 - Christl Findling
Have you ever noticed how every garden has a story? No matter how many gardeners might have worked that spot: just 2 - for instance mother nature AND you, or multitudes: you and the many who known o…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: The Nature Fix - How Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier And More Creative
“Anyone who’s gazed at the moon or stood still in a magnificent stand of trees knows what it’s like to experience the Power of Awe – it seems to slow time, proffer reverence for life and connect us t…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Digging Deep - Fran Sorin
Digging deep: this is a phrase that has a wide variety of meanings and uses – both literal and figurative — in the garden, and in the body, mind and heart.
In a new year, many of us have a tendenc…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Eliot Coleman And 'The Four-Season Harvest'
It is mid-January. It is deep mid-winter, even in my relatively mild USDA zone 9, Sunset zone 8. While I am fortunate enough to have a year-round Saturday farmer’s market available to me, my own home…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: River Partners
As a celebration of the many ways that one’s cultivation of place can benefit not only the individual cultivator – gardener or naturalist – this week on Cultivating Place I’m joined by John Carlon, p…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Sunset Western Garden Test Gardens With Editor Johanna Silver
Happy New Year! For over 100 years Sunset magazine has been inspiring gardens and gardeners in the American West. This year marks the first full year for Sunset’s gorgeous, innovative new demonstrati…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Heidrun Sparkling Mead
There is something inherently satisfying about a full circle – a completion – a beginning brought to its fullness and coming to its natural end, which leads right into the next beginning. This full c…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Michael Kauffmann, Founder And Editor Of Backcountry Press
In this season of the winter solstice — marked by the beauty and appreciative contemplation that mark the celebrations of winter holidays the world around, I very much wanted this week's Cultivating …
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: In Bloom: Creating And Living With Flowers – Ngoc Minh Ngo
The famous British gardener and writer Vita Sackville-West stated that no room is ever complete without flowers. This week on Cultivating Place we explore this idea with Vietnamese-born New York Base…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Emily Dickinson – Poet Gardener
Emily Dickinson references plants, flowers, nature or her garden in more than one-third of her known poems, with many more references in her extensive correspondences with family and friends. Flowers…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Stephen Orr - The New American Herbal
The term “herbal” refers to far more than a soothing tea or tasty spice. An herbal is a book or otherwise codified collection of knowledge about the use of plants for food or medicine. Dating back as…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Winter Craft
Every year about this time, the light wanes, the temperatures drop and we as people draw in a bit, hunker down and begin whatever we can of a winter dormancy.
For gardeners and non-gardeners alike,…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
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