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
Longwood Reimagined with Horticultural Leader, Paul Redman
This week, when many in the US have time off with family and friends, we note our gratitude for Public Gardens and green spaces around our country and in our lives.
Guest-Host Abra Lee is in conver…
00:53:52 |
Thu 28 Nov 2024
All flourishing is mutual, Robin Wall Kimmerer (Best Of)
In honor of the season of gratitude, festivities, long nights, rest, and reflection upon us, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Indigenous scholar, professor, land …
00:56:33 |
Thu 21 Nov 2024
Exploring the frontiers of garden design with The New Perennialist, Tony Spencer of Ontario, CA
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and all that they are growing in this world, this week in particular I am delighted to be in conversation with a longtime and ins…
01:00:56 |
Thu 14 Nov 2024
Somewhere That's Green, with plantsman John Kish
This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa of Botany in South Bend, Indiana, is back, this time in conversation with John Kish in the desert town of Bend, Oregon.
John is the founder and ow…
00:55:07 |
Thu 07 Nov 2024
All Hallows Eve/Samhain & our wildest dreams, with Jen Williams of Wild Dreams Farm & Seed
Sometimes our dreams didn’t start out as our dreams. Sometimes, our current dreams were once just seeds germinating in the crucible of time and experience leading up to what is now. For seed farmer J…
01:02:40 |
Thu 31 Oct 2024
The Poetic Garden Legacy of the Harlem Renaissance's Effie Lee Newsome
Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and W. EB Dubois are some of the many recognizable names of an intellectual cultural and artistic period in American history known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Th…
01:03:52 |
Thu 24 Oct 2024
All the wild rhythms: Wild Plant Culture with Jared Rosenbaum
The wilds of New Jersey might sound like a humorous oxymoron to many – many who don’t live in New Jersey.
Humor is one of our guests' great traits this week, along with his deep love of the plants …
01:13:50 |
Thu 17 Oct 2024
LIVE with Golden State Linen (formerly known as Chico Flax)
This week, we’re so excited to air the first listen to one of our CP LIVE conversations, which were recorded live in front of an audience on the home ground of the Cultivators of Place with whom we a…
01:04:36 |
Thu 10 Oct 2024
KISS MY ASTER's ASTER GARDENS, with Amanda Thomsen
Amanda Thomsen is a horticulturist, garden designer, keynote speaker, freelance writer, backyard consultant, and author living in suburban Chicago. Amanda wants to help the world live more sustainabl…
00:53:41 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
The Field Guides Among Us: Dr. Alan Weakley, Director UNC Chapel Hill Herbarium
Dr. Alan Weakley is a career-long botanist and conservation biologist firmly rooted in the southeast region of the U.S. For a little over 23 years, Dr. Weakley has served as the director of the UNC C…
01:02:55 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
Pre Autumnal Equinox Celebration with Erin Benzakein of Floret & Floret Originals
Erin Benzakein of Floret Flower Farm needs little introduction to most garden-minded listeners. She has been so instrumental is cultivating a flower-farmer and flower-farming economy in our country. …
01:05:39 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Something in The Woods Loves You, with Jarod K. Anderson
One day in his mid-adulthood, at a particularly low point after many years of battling debilitating depression, Jarod K. Anderson witnessed the presence of a Great Blue Heron fishing in a creek in th…
00:55:58 |
Thu 12 Sep 2024
Gardens in Spaces of Incarceration, with Cultural Geographer Dr. Elizabeth Lara
This week, in honor of Labor Day just passed, we venture into the world of garden preservation, history through the lens of spaces of incarceration, and how these can help all of us consider, with cl…
01:23:04 |
Thu 05 Sep 2024
BEST OF conversation with Gwendolyn Wallace author "Joy Takes Root"
At this back-to-school, change-of-seasons moment, I thought we would all enjoy a good bedtime-story vibe. Enjoy this Best of CP conversation with Gwendolyn Wallace.
Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener,…
00:56:35 |
Thu 29 Aug 2024
Thoughtful alchemy & sustainable floristry, Shane Connolly
This week, A BEST OF conversation. In this long, hot, fiery summer here in Northern CA and wet and windy summer in other parts of the country – I really needed some flowers – and thought our conversa…
00:54:44 |
Thu 22 Aug 2024
Back to school (with plants) - Sean Doherty, VP of Education, Missouri Botanical Garden
It’s back to school time – you can tell by the ads on television and radio (yes, I was watching the Olympics!) and by the displays at the stores with notebooks, pencils, backpacks, and lunch boxes be…
00:59:22 |
Thu 15 Aug 2024
Welcome to the Shrub Club: Shrouded in Light Kevin Philip Williams & Michael Guidi
Late July, August, and September (the dog days of summer with the constellation Sirius high in the night sky) are perhaps the stretch of the year in most climates of the Northern Hemisphere that real…
01:24:54 |
Thu 08 Aug 2024
The Botanical Journey & Lexicon of a Caring Plantsperson, with Tim Johnson, Native Plant Trust
Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and garden worlds on both personal and professional levels. Having worked with Seed Savers Exchange earlier in his career, Tim last joined us on Cultivating…
01:09:13 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
A Devotion to the Mysterium of Place as an Antidote to Existential Homesickness, with Janisse Ray
Working under the online name Trackless Wild, Janisse Ray is an American writer, naturalist, and environmental activist.
Just about everything she does speaks to me of the largest meaning and import…
01:04:30 |
Thu 25 Jul 2024
The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year" with Margaret Renkl BEST OF
This week we revisit a favorite conversation from the archive, “The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year," with author and backyard tender and observer, Margaret Renkl. Reminding us that even on days wh…
01:03:10 |
Thu 18 Jul 2024
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