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: Genny Arnold And California Native Bulbs
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Genny Arnold, Seed Program Manager at the Theodore Payne Foundation who speaks with us about the care and long-term keeping of our native geophytes — t…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Jessica Lundberg, VP of Administration at Lundberg Family Farms
The impulse to garden is prismatic, right? It's about connection, about beauty, about plants, about productivity and self-sufficiency, about health and community. It can be political. It can be spiri…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
The Xerces Society and Gardening For Butterflies (And Other Invertebrates!)
Flower gardens grow flowers, vegetable gardens grow vegetables, and, yes, butterfly gardens grow butterflies. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Matthew Shepherd of the Xerces Society, a …
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Andrea Wulf
Ever wonder how a plant got its name? Or for whom it was named and why? Those are the sorts of questions that started historian and author Andrea Wulf down the path of her research. This week on Cult…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Ernie Wasson And Salvias
Salvias are among my favorite of flowers. Do I say that about a different plant group just about every other week? It could be. Let’s say then that this week, this time of year, salvias are among my …
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Mia Lehrer And Urban Landscapes
We all know that human development impacts nature, and that the most developed of human spaces — cities — without any nature in them, negatively impacts humans. Since the very beginnings of the field…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Native Plants And California Flora Nursery
Nothing says place like the cultivation and caring for the plants native to your place. As gardeners we hear a lot about native plants. This is perhaps especially true in the past 20 years or so. And…
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Mon 25 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Robin Parer And Geraniaceae
Do you have particular plant groups you like more than most? Because of family history or where you live, perhaps? The Geranium family of flowering plants rank right up there for me. And I’m not alon…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Bloomin' Hope And 'The Language Of Flowers'
Sometimes flowers, gardens and nature speaks to us. Sometimes we employ them to speak on our behalf. What do our gardens and flowers say to the world? This week on Cultivating Place, we're joined by …
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Dr. Bill Thomas On Reinventing Aging
This week, we’re joined by Dr. Bill Thomas: gardener, farmer, parent with his wife Jude, and Harvard-trained geriatrician and international authority on eldercare. In the 1990s he co-founded with his…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: The Atlanta Botanical Gardens
On Cultivating Place this week we talk with Mary Pat Matheson and George DeMan, the current president and founding president of the Atlanta Botanical Gardens respectively.
In April of this year, the…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Elizabeth Hoover On Native Gardens, Social Justice, Food Sovereignty And More
Sometimes our understanding of what gardening or a garden are can be expanded just by asking for someone else’s history and understanding of these terms.
This week on Cultivating Place, we're joined…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Deborah Koons Garcia
If seed is the beginning and end of all plant life, soil is the place that most seeds call home. Soil then is a foundational aspect to any garden a very important place for all of us to cultivate con…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Organic Seed Alliance
“Seed draws you in,” says Micaela Colley. “They capture your imagination,” Kalan Redwood adds.
Seeds are the alpha and the omega, the beginning and end of most plant life. This week on Cultivating P…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Daniel Atkinson On Seeds, Beans, Music, Family And More
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Daniel Atkinson — teacher, student, scholar of the African American Diaspora and Jazz and Rhythm and Blues music and dedicated home gardener. Currently…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Sam Lemheney And The Philadelphia Flower Show
The first official day of spring is right around the corner, and among other things that means we're in the heart of flower and garden shows around the country.
This week, we speak with Sam Lemheney…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Panayoti Kelaidis, Denver Botanic Gardens Senior Curator
This week our guest is something of a renaissance man. A Colorado native of Greek descent, Panayoti Kelaidis has a background in Chinese literature and as a computer systems analyst in addition to be…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Gardening, Designing and Living With Lorene Edwards Forkner
Cultivating Place: Gardening, Designing and Living With Lorene Edwards Forkner by Jennifer Jewell
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: Author, Landscape Designer and Inward Gardener Julie Moir Messervy
For more than 25 years, Julie Moir Messervy has inspired gardeners, readers and thinkers with her garden designs and her garden philosophy. She inspired host Jennifer Jewell years ago when she first …
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
Cultivating Place: A Conversation With California Landscape Designer Bernard Trainor
This week on Cultivating Place, the program’s conversations begin with Bernard Trainor, the Australian-born landscape designer. Known for his iconic California gardens, Trainor is both a hands-on gar…
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Fri 22 Sep 2017
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