Cultivating Place

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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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Tyra Shenaurlt, the W. W. S...

03.23.2023

For this penultimate episode of Women’s History month, Cultivating Place heads to Tacoma, Washington, to chat with Tyra Shenaurlt, horticulture resource supervisor at Metro Parks Tacoma, overseeing, among other things, a hundred fifteen-year-old glass house known as the W.W. Seymour ...

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03.23.2023 Tyra Shenaurlt, the W. W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Wright Park, Tacoma, WA For this penultimate episode of Women’s History month, Cultivating Place heads to Tacoma, Washington, to chat with Tyra Shenaurlt, horticulture resource supervisor at Metro Parks Tacoma, overseeing, among other things, a hundred fifteen-year-old glass house known as the W.W. Seymour ...
03.16.2023 The Seed Keeper(s), with Diane Wilson BEST OF This week we revisit a best-of Cultivating Place conversation focusing on seeding our imaginations—metaphorically and literally, with Diane Wilson writer, gardener, emeritus executive director of Dream of Wild Health and, more recently, emeritus executive director of The Native American Food ...
03.09.2023 Bringing Back the Natives Tour, Kathy Kramer In a continuation of Women’s History Month and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, especially as it relates to improving the impact of our gardening lives on the ...
03.02.2023 Loving the Surface of the Earth: Orwell's Roses, with Rebecca Solnit In this first week of March, we kick off Women’s History Month in conversation with one of the great critical thinkers and writers of our time, Rebecca Solnit. Writer, historian, feminist, and activist, Rebecca’s long bibliography epitomizes her wide-ranging humanitarian ...
02.23.2023 Winter Keepers, Cookers, and Ciders: James Rich, orchardist and chef This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with homegrown ones, a particular joy in late February when spring and summer seem close but also still too ...
02.16.2023 The Uplifting Ujaama with Bonnetta Adeeb and Nathan Kleinman Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox, many of us have seeds of spring and summer foods on our minds (and hearts). So, this week we continue our celebration of Black History Month, and love ...
02.09.2023 The Love Stories of Abra Lee, Atlanta, GA Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic apple orchards in southwestern Colorado, and this week’s episode, which I think of as the ...
02.02.2023 For the Love of Apples: The Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project As February is upon us we turn from a love letter to biodiversity writ large to a labor of love in conserving the biodiversity of one iconic fruit in large part born of human labor across the ages and the ...
01.26.2023 The Klamath Mountains, A Natural History, Michael Kauffman & Justin Garwood This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023 by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region and the importance of knowing any place better from multiple perspectives for the most effective and durable conservation ...
01.19.2023 The Yurok Tribe's Revegetation Planning for the Undamming of the Klamath River Seen in the overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations have made clear, it is at the landscape and local levels that these conservation efforts work ...
01.12.2023 A Voice for Plants: The California Native Plant Society & 30 x 30 conservation goals This week we continue our multi-part series on the many facets of the global 30 x 30 conservation efforts as they continue across the state of California as just one example of local, state, and national efforts aggregated. We're in ...
01.05.2023 Conserving Biodiversity & Habitat 30 x 30, with Jennifer Norris Welcome, 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, state, and local conservation efforts collectively known as 30 x 30 – a multi-faceted commitment by governments, agencies, and localities to securely preserve 30% ...
12.29.2022 Garden Masterclass - calling all gardeners: Annie Guilfoyle & Noel Kingsbury As we look out over a new garden year this week, a conversation to help us meet our garden learning goals. Award-winning designers, writers, educators, and consummate plant-driven gardeners Annie Guillefoyle and Noel Kingsbury join us to share more about ...
12.22.2022 What it means to be a gardener, community-based restoration ecology, Cris Sarabia Cris Sarabia is the conservation director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. He is also a dedicated and active member of many local land and conservation organizations in his home region of North Long Beach, in Southern California, including ...
12.15.2022 A Winter Solstice offering: The Marginalian in the garden, with Maria Popova This week, a pre-Solstice offering for Cultivating Place listeners! Maria Popova is the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings), which, for the past 16 years, has been a daily—perhaps even hourly—exploration of wonder in our ...
12.08.2022 Learning from gardeners -past with Judith Tankard, Landscape Historian This week – we visit and learn from gardeners' past as we look to the future in conversation with Judith Tankard, a landscape historian, author, and preservation consultant. Tankard is the author or co-author of twelve illustrated books on landscape ...
12.01.2022 Befriending our sites with The Garden Refresh in conversation with Kier Holmes Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer regularly contributing to the likes of Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Gardenista, Sonoma Magazine, Marin Magazine, and Sunset Magazine. She is also a children’s garden and science educator. In her writing ...
11.24.2022 Thankful: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, Rebecca Schiller Dear All, Rebecca Schiller is a gardener, a smallholding steward, an activist, and author of: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, A Memoir of Coming Home to My Neurodivergent Mind – about grounding back to land, place, and garden - ...
11.17.2022 Healing, Gratitude & Connection with Zephrine Hanson, Hampden Farms Denver, CO In this week after Veterans Day here in the U.S, and in this season clarifying that gratitude is one of the greatest gifts of the garden and the growing world, we’re in conversation with someone who knows this gift of ...
11.10.2022 Foregrounding Plants: The Arnold Arboretum celebrates 150 In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of the year—when our charismatic woody megaflora of the Northern Hemisphere—the trees—are chorophylling down, coloring up, and turning over their foliage biomass to the soil in preparation for the winter ahead, this ...
11.03.2022 The evolving public garden with members of the horticultural team at Filoli Historic House & Garden Settling into November now, this week on Cultivating Place we’re in conversation with three members of the horticultural team at Filoli, a historic house and 16 acres cultivated garden in Woodside, California, where they are striving toward environmental and cultural ...
10.26.2022 10.27.22 Nowness & The Senescent Season- Louesa Roebuck Approaching All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween, Samhain, and Day of the Dead, we are entering into the season of gratitude - running from now through the Winter Solstice & the calendar’s new year. It is a season of gathering, collection, and reflection, ...
10.20.2022 Gardening with American Roots, Nick and Allison McCullough This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with fall/winter planning and planting, this time with a focus on design, in conversation with Nick and Allison McCullough – of McCullough landscape & Nursery, a design, build, and maintenance firm based in ...
10.13.2022 Trophic Cascades with poet & gardener Camille Dungy, BEST OF As another offering to all of you in this Autumnal planting and planning period, a revisit and reminder of the poetics involved as well as the pragmatics, in conversation with award-winning poet and long-time home gardener Camille Dungy. Camille is ...
10.06.2022 Proportionality: The Northeast Native Plant Primer, with Uli Lorimer As we look to our fall and winter planting and planning windows, this week, Cultivating Place is back in conversation with Uli Lorimer, native plantsman and Director of Horticulture at the Native Plant Trust. His new book, "The Northeast Native ...
09.29.2022 Seed season & Bioregional seed sense with Stacey Denton of Flora Farm & Design Studio This first full week of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere – looking toward the month of October and its many harvest celebrations, we look to our seeds – the beginning and end of the lives of the seed-bearing plants who ...
09.22.2022 Regeneration with the intention of deep joy and fun, Farmer Rishi This week on Cultivating Place, we look at culture and ecology with Farmer Rishi. Rishi is a farmer/gardener, teacher, thinker, and lover of life-based in Southern California. The executive director of the Sarvodaya Institute there, Rishi leads by example and ...
09.15.2022 From the steppe plants of the world to better urban landscapes for the world, Anna Andreyeva Anna Andreyeva is a Russian-born UK- based garden designer, plantswoman, and mother. She is currently pursuing a horticultural and ecological research Ph.D. focused on perennial steppe plants around the world for green roofs and general urban planting in a changing ...
09.08.2022 Raise em' right: plant & human community at Barton Springs Nursery Austin, Texas If you ask me, the independent nurseries and growers of our world – especially those focused on helping us as gardeners create not only beautiful gardens but also gardens that contribute to the ecologies of our places, are some of ...
09.01.2022 Digging deep and garden sparks in Austin, with Texas gardener Pam Penick Pam Penick is the gardener behind the well-known long-time garden blog known as Diggi ng. Based in Austin, Texas, Pam is an avid and audacious gardener and garden writer. She is also a determined garden community builder in all that ...
08.25.2022 Transforming lawns into meadows of life, with Owen Wormser: BEST OF CP Still in the Dog Days of Summer - the heat it hot, the days are long, and garden maintenance in the form of watering, weeding, and perhaps mowing and blowing (especially in the dry and droughty parts of the country ...
08.18.2022 The Prairie Gardener's Go To Guides, with Calgary gardener Janet Melrose In our ongoing exploration of where gardeners are and what they are doing in our world right now, we head pretty far north on Cultivating Place this week in conversation with Canadian gardener Janet Melrose. Janet is known in Calgary, ...
08.11.2022 Test Plot, a celebration of labor & community-based ecological restoration, w/Jen Toy & Jenny Jones This week on Cultivating Place, we’re in conversation with Jenny Jones and Jen Toy. They are gardeners, landscape architects, and caring humans who are taking the idea of a test plot to the community level. A test plot is a ...
08.04.2022 Best of Cultivating Place: Adventurous design & civilization building, David Godshall Terremoto LA David Godshall is a landscape architect, gardener, and meta-garden philosopher making his way with his young family and his Terremoto Landscape Architecture design studio team in Los Angeles. The Terremoto team was featured as one of Elle Décor’s A List ...
07.28.2022 The History & Importance of Summer Tomatoes - South Jersey Style, Jeff Quattrone It’s the height of warm season crops in our gardens here in the Northern Hemisphere, and this week Cultivating Place is joined by Jeff Quattrone – graphic artist, gardener, and heirloom vegetable and seed advocate based in Salem County, New ...
07.21.2022 Connection & Diversity from a Landscape Perspective, Cheetah Tchudi of Turkeytail Farm It’s the height of summer farmers' markets as community hubs, and this week we're in conversation with Cheetah Tchudi co-founder with his wife Sami and his parents, Susan and Steve Tchudi, of Turkeytail Farm, a small diversified organic family farm ...
07.14.2022 The Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati w/Executive Director Karen Kahle In a month where there is a lot of talk about what it means to be a citizen of this country – this world even – this week we follow last week’s urban garden conversation with another, this time with ...
07.07.2022 Preservation and transformation: San Francisco's Greenhouse Project, with Caitlyn Galloway San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing on it. This week Cultivating Place is joined by Caitlyn Galloway who shares more about the firm belief ...
06.30.2022 The Generosity & Mutual Care of Seeds: W/Ken Greene, co-founder of Hudson Valley Seed Company K joins Cultivating Place this week to delve into the long view and deep relationships born of the generosity of seed – and seed people - in our garden lives. Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a ...
06.23.2022 National Pollinator Week, Summer Solstice & Urban Pollination Ecology with Dr. Monika Egerer It is really and truly summer now Happy Summer Solstice Season in the Northern Hemisphere. Are your gardens and parks full of the sound and movements of winged life – the fluttering of moths at your white flowers, at the ...
06.16.2022 BLACK FLORA, with Teri Speight in Honor of JUNETEENTH Teresa J Speight is a Washington DC-based gardener, garden historian, and podcaster under the name of Cottage in the Court. Teri’s new book out from Bloom! Imprint is BLACK FLORA – a gorgeous look into transformative humans of color and ...
06.09.2022 LONG LIVE LOVE FOUNDATION'S Serenity & Healing Garden in Oakland, CA This week we consider the idea of mental health and our gardens from an even more poignant perspective. In the wake of the recent Uvalde and then Oklahoma gun violence deaths and tragedies, I wish this was not such a ...
06.02.2022 The Well-Gardened Mind, with Sue Stuart-Smith, BEST OF I think it’s nearly impossible to try and stay abreast of current events, and not simultaneously need to remind ourselves to care for our individual mental health - for ourselves, but hopefully to contribute to the sanity of our collective ...
05.26.2022 The Power of local garden Knowledge: In The Coastal Garden, Lyons Filmer & Susan Hayes As summer arrives, more than 1 million US households are now engaged in gardening – a number that is double what it was before the pandemic. This week we focus on the communal power and importance of local garden information ...
05.19.2022 The Magical Botanicals of Flora Forager, with Bridget Beth Collins IN the spirit of May, this week we’re headed out in the garden, or down the block, or up the trail for some planty wonder and magic in the company of Bridget Beth Collins – the creative force, glittering vision, ...
05.12.2022 Getting GardenFit, with Madeline Hooper and Jeff Hughes Any gardener and their muscles, bones, joints, and ligaments know that gardening is a full-contact sport (or religion), this week we’re joined by Madeline de Vries Hooper and Jeff Hughes, the founders of GardenFit, a new PBS series focusing on ...
05.05.2022 In Honor of Mother's Day - Theodora Park, Charleston, SC with David Rawle David Rawle is the founder and force (with contribution and support from his wife, Carol Perkins, and a wide variety of community members in Charleston, SC), behind Theodora Park, a public park in Charleston - designed and cared for (with ...
04.28.2022 Color in & Out of the Garden, Watercolor Practices for Painters, Gardeners, & Nature Lovers In preparation for May and Mother’s Day here in the US, we’re in conversation with Lorene Edwards Forkner, a gardener, a writer, a cook, a mother, a daughter, the garden columnist for the Seattle Times, and known as gardener cook ...
04.21.2022 Earth Day- Parks for the Nature of Everyone, Olmsted200 In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week, Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the idea, design, and championing of Parks for the Nature of Everyone. April 26th is the 200th ...
04.14.2022 The Indian Edit, with Nitasha Manchanda Nitasha Manchanda is a genetic scientist, a mother, a wife, a gardener and the creator and host of a podcast series entitled The Indian Edit – exploring the inspiring lives of women of the Indian diaspora – living everywhere from ...

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