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
Legends of the Leaf, with Jane Perrone, of On The Ledge Podcast
This week we lean into a particular aspect of our garden lives – but perhaps a favorite winter activity in the northerly climates in winter: tending to our houseplant and indoor garden family.
We’r…
01:01:59 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, with Brent Leggs
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am so excited to be joined this week by Brent Leggs, Se…
00:54:55 |
Thu 15 Feb 2024
Library science is (garden) life science, Staci Catron & Jennie Oldfield
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, we use this midwinter moment for a mid-winter retreat. We…
01:04:03 |
Thu 08 Feb 2024
In honor of BHM: Camille Dungy on "Soil, The Story of A Black Mother's Garden" BEST OF
Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award-winning, often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections of environmentally focused poetry and writing by people of co…
01:22:16 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
Seed is Life: The National Native Seed Conference Feb 7th and 8th w/ Institute for Applied Ecology
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am pleased to be joined this week by three members of t…
01:04:35 |
Thu 25 Jan 2024
Wormwrangling, the science-practice gap, & updating grassland restoration: Dr. Justin Luong
Did you know that grasslands account for between 20 and 40 percent of the world's land area? Generally open, fairly flat, and accessible, they exist on every continent except Antarctica. Ecologically…
00:57:34 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Reimagining May Sarton's house (and garden) by the sea, w/artist Carly Glovinski
This week on Cultivating Place, we hear the magical story of how two gardeners, separated by time, came together to grow all of our imaginations.
May Sarton was a 20th—century writer known for her p…
01:07:58 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
Welcoming whimsy, wonder, and the work of Intimacy: Esme Cabrera Naturalist/Artist, la_mamigami
Esme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a born educator. Under the Instagram name “la-mamigami", Esme experiments, shares, and nurtures a plant-based art practice honoring the "miracles-of-being…
01:02:28 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
Thinking like healthy habitats (radically and radially), with Sid Hill Ecological Land Artisan
We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place, focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant community thinking getting the final say. We’re in conversation with Cornwal…
00:56:49 |
Thu 28 Dec 2023
SOLSTICE SPECIAL: THE GARDEN NEXT DOOR with Collin Pine
Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The Garden Next Door. Thought-provokingly illustrated by Tiffany Ev…
00:55:14 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Uprooting - finding and growing our way home, with Marchelle Farrell
Caribbean-born British-based writer and Gardener Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside, Finding Home in an English Country Garden. A medical doctor by tr…
00:55:50 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Love, Nature, Magic with Maria Rodale
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, I am thrilled to be joined this week by Maria Rodale, of the Rodale Organic Gardening fa…
00:55:24 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
SUPER BLOOM, with Australian Plantswoman Jac Semmler
Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, highly skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book and the Australian-based plant practice known as Super Bloom.…
00:58:54 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Kinship - Belonging in a World of Relations, with Rowen White & Gavin Van Horn Best of
In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power for growing the world better. I thought that this week we cou…
01:01:53 |
Thu 23 Nov 2023
GROW with Riz Reyes, award-winning plantsman and author of "Grow: A Family Guide to Plants"
This week we’re in conversation with award-winning plantsman Riz Reyes of Washington State-based RH Horticulture and Landwave Gardens.
Riz is the current Assistant Director of Heronswood Garden and …
01:33:54 |
Thu 16 Nov 2023
"Joy Takes Root," a conversation with author Gwendolyn Wallace
Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated children’s literature. Joy Takes Root, and The Light She Feels Inside (both publishe…
00:57:19 |
Thu 09 Nov 2023
Growing Home: Humble Roots & The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer
As we turn the calendar to November and the season to decidedly late-fall and even wintery in many places across the U.S., we look toward our fall & winter planting windows – especially good for nati…
01:05:28 |
Thu 02 Nov 2023
Flora & Forage with Blue Ridge Botanic's Nina Veteto
This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto, a conservationist, an artist, and an expert storyteller.
Known as Blue Ridge Botanic online and creator of the br…
00:56:10 |
Thu 26 Oct 2023
"The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year" with Margaret Renkl
This week in this season of endings and beginnings again, we welcome back writer, backyard tender, and heartfelt observer Margaret Renkl joining us to share more about her newest, likewise heartfelt …
01:04:23 |
Thu 19 Oct 2023
Star-Gazing, Yard-Sharing, Imagination & Community-Activating: Olly Costello, Drawing us Together
This week on Cultivating Place, we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant-loving and garden-growing lives in conversation with Olly Costello.
Through their remarkable colors and …
00:55:56 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
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