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
Trees are Bridges to the Sky, with ecologist poet Frederick Livingston
“Are Humans Parasites sowing our own hunger, or fruit, gifts from Earth to our future? Is the edge of our lives, civilization, and species a cliff to catastrophe or a bridge to transformation?” These…
01:07:33 |
Thu 11 Jul 2024
Good Citizenship = Good Stewardship: Native Seed/SEARCH, with Alexandra Zamecnik
It’s the seedy time of summer. This week of the fourth of July we’re working from the premise that foundational to good citizenship is great stewardship of place (plants and people) and we are lookin…
01:01:16 |
Thu 04 Jul 2024
National Pollinator Week with the Pollinator Posse, Tora Rocha
It’s full summer - for us and for the fauna of the Northern Hemisphere.
That means many of our most charismatic, sun-loving pollinators are at the peak of their seasonal cycles – and we are celebra…
01:13:42 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
SOLSTICE SPECIAL: Being Still, with Mary Jo Hoffman
Happy (almost) Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, taking place on June 20th, we get Still.
We h…
01:19:45 |
Thu 20 Jun 2024
In Honor of Juneteenth: The Anne Spencer House & Garden, with Shaun Spencer Hester
In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we check in on the Anne Spencer House & Garden in Lynchburg, VA. The home and garden of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer and her husband Edward, thi…
01:19:28 |
Thu 13 Jun 2024
A Garden's Purpose, with Félix de Rosen
Cultivating our places with attention, intention, thought and care is certainly an ethos I hold dear and advocate for with some measure of ferocity. When student and gardener Félix de Rosen reached o…
00:53:05 |
Thu 06 Jun 2024
Design Futurist Awards, with Sarah Beck of Pacific Horticulture
With the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK just completed, the gardening world as a whole has the concept of Garden Design awards and recognition - along with the garden world’s trends, concerns and prio…
00:52:38 |
Thu 30 May 2024
Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook, with Milkwood's Kirsten Bradley
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re in conversation with Kristen Bradley, Co-founder and Creative Director of the world-renowned Australian-based Milkwood Permaculture.
Their new Milkwood Permacu…
00:54:19 |
Thu 23 May 2024
The Seed Detective, with Adam Alexander
Just in time for your continued planning, plotting, and planting in order to grow the earliest and the latest and the biggest and the longest producing and the best tasting of the summer vegetable an…
00:53:05 |
Thu 16 May 2024
Small House Farm Beauty & Learning, Bevin Cohen
Bevin Cohen and his wife Heather Marie co-founded Small House Farm, a homestead, garden, family, and bridge to the natural world around them.
Bevin writes: “The garden is where we meditate, harvest …
00:54:45 |
Thu 09 May 2024
A year full of flowers (in pots!), with the UK's Sarah Raven
To kick off May, looking forward to Mother’s Day, Graduations, and the promise of Summer Gardening in general here in the US, this week we go all in for flowers in pots! with one of the world’s brigh…
00:57:26 |
Thu 02 May 2024
CA NAtive Plant Week & CNPS Rare Plant Program Aaron Sims
The third week of April is California Native Plant week, this year being celebrated by the California Native Plant Society via 8 days of action in honor and protection of our native plant diversity.
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01:01:42 |
Sat 27 Apr 2024
Bumble Bee Atlas Projects w/ Leif Richardson, Xerces Society BEST OF
Following on from native plant week, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation about some of our favorite native plant visitors: our native bumble bees. Bumble bee conservation has recently had som…
01:12:42 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
Great garden friends: The Hummingbird Monitoring Network, Dr. Susan Wethington BEST OF
Hummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creature of the America’s, the more than 350 species of hummingbirds have coevolved with the flora of the Americas for millions of years. For this fourth we…
00:53:12 |
Thu 11 Apr 2024
Seeding Circularity: Orta Kitchen Garden Seed Pots, Anne Fletcher
This week, with Spring and seeding season fully underway—indoors and out—we speak with gardener entrepreneur Anne Fletcher of Orta Kitchen Gardens, creators of non-toxic ceramic, self-watering Orta s…
00:57:32 |
Thu 04 Apr 2024
Women's History Month Finale: Garden Wonderland, with Leslie Bennett
To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week, we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, an Oakland, CA-based landscape designer who creates gardens that help to nourish and tell the …
01:05:55 |
Thu 28 Mar 2024
Spring Equinox Special with Owen Wormser of Abound Design
The Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now, and as we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier this week, I want to celebrate how far we have come and giv…
00:55:02 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
The Art of Gardens + Sculpture: Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens Grand Rapids, MI
The combining of sculpture and gardens dates back centuries if not millennia, and there are few public gardens I know of that do not incorporate sculpture into their aesthetics and identity at some p…
00:55:00 |
Thu 14 Mar 2024
Women's History Month: The Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar
Happy Women’s History Month!
To kick Women’s History Month off on Cultivating Place, we visit with the woman known as the Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar of Jekka’s Herb Farm in the UK this week. Her …
01:01:56 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
Leap Day Special: Gardening Can Be Murder, Marta - McDowell
Most gardeners know the somewhat gruesome pleasure of working in the garden – with a sharp tool, or a poisonous plant, or ankle deep in a juicy scene of decomposition – and thinking to yourself, “oh,…
01:02:28 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
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