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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. They change the world, for...

The Garden Curator - Art in and of the Garden, Colleen Southwell, Australia

57 mins; July 23, 2020

Botanical Mythology And The Imagination Of Plants With Matt Hall, NZ

56 mins; July 16, 2020

Writing Wild: 25 Women Poets, Ramblers & Mavericks w/ Kathryn Aalto

56 mins; July 09, 2020

Botany, Geography, History & Power At The Heart Of The Garden, W/ Jamaica Kincaid

58 mins; July 02, 2020

Summer Garden Gems: The Melon, With Amy Goldman

56 mins; June 25, 2020

FOR THE LOVE OF 'BUGS' (INSECTS) with Entomologist Nadia Ruffin

54 mins; June 18, 2020

Wedding(FLOWERS)Season, With Philippa Craddock, UK

55 mins; June 11, 2020

Unabashed Gratitude, Delight & Structures Of Care - Ross Gay, Poet Gardener

57 mins; June 04, 2020

MAKING A LIFE, With MELANIE FALICK

57 mins; May 28, 2020

Growing Weed In The Garden, Johanna Silver

55 mins; May 21, 2020

For The Love Of Roses, With Rose Devotee Fallon Shea

58 mins; May 14, 2020

The Comfort Of Roses, With Michael Marriott Of David Austin Roses

55 mins; May 07, 2020

Navigating By Plants: Uli Lorimer, Native Plant Trust

56 mins; April 30, 2020

FIBERSHED - Growing A Healthier Economy & Environment

55 mins; April 23, 2020

Seedkeeper: Ira Wallace THE EARTH IN HER HANDS Series

54 mins; April 18, 2020

The Kitchen Garden Revival, With Nicole Johnsey Burke Of Gardenary

54 mins; April 09, 2020

FOR THE WILD With Ayana Young, THE EARTH IN HER HANDS series #5

59 mins; April 02, 2020

Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style with Christin Geall, THE EARTH IN HER HANDS #4

60 hours 20 mins; March 26, 2020

Dr. Elaine Ingham, Soil Scientist - THE EARTH IN HER HANDS #3

62 hours 12 mins; March 19, 2020

Andrea DeLong-Amaya, THE EARTH IN HER HANDS #2

54 mins; March 12, 2020

Tiffany Freeman, Clinical Herbalist THE EARTH IN HER HANDS #1

53 mins; March 05, 2020

Horticultural Therapy At Work: Matt Wichrowski, MSW, HTR Rusk Institute HEALING GARDENS #5

55 mins; February 27, 2020

THE ELDER - An Ancient Healing Plant Ally, HEALING GARDENS #4

54 mins; February 20, 2020

HEALING GARDEN SERIES #3: Horticultural Therapy - Perla Curbelo, Puerto Rico

55 mins; February 13, 2020

Healing Gardens Series #2: Therapeutic Landscapes Network, Dr. Naomi Sachs, Founding Director

57 mins; February 06, 2020

Healing Gardens Series #1: Sanctuary, Annie Kirk Of Red Bird Restorative Gardens

55 mins; January 30, 2020

GROWING EMPOWERMENT - Frailty Myths, with Erinn Carter & Georgia Faye Hirs

56 mins; January 23, 2020

Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, Marta McDowell

53 mins; January 16, 2020

(Gardening) News From The Capital: The Washington Gardener, Kathy Jentz

56 mins; January 09, 2020

Consider The Lilies, With Naturalist Educator Joe Joe Clark

54 mins; January 02, 2020

Seedlings - The Growing Power Of Children's Literature

61 hours 51 mins; December 26, 2019

On FLOWERS with Amy Merrick

55 mins; December 19, 2019

The Scentual Garden, Ken Druse

55 mins; December 12, 2019

In Search Of The Canary Tree, And Other Thoughts On Resilience BEST OF

56 mins; December 06, 2019

Unabashed Gratitude, Delight & Structures of Care - Ross Gay, Poet Gardener

54 mins; November 28, 2019

Talking About A Revolution, A Foodscape Revolution With Brie Arthur

58 mins; November 21, 2019

All The Herbs, With Sue Goetz

54 mins; November 14, 2019

Firescaping, With Butte Fire Safe Council And Douglas Kent, Author

56 mins; November 07, 2019

Mastering The Art Of Being A Plantsman, With Matt Mattus

55 mins; October 31, 2019

Garden Cartography - Misti Little, The Garden Path Podcast

55 mins; October 24, 2019

Cultivating A Gardening Culture - With Home Gardener Tucker Fitzpatrick

56 mins; October 17, 2019

BEST OF: Daring to be Wild - We ARE The Ark - with Irish Plantswoman, Mary Reynolds

56 mins; October 10, 2019

Considering Our Gardens From The Inside Out - The First Next Room With Architect David Abelow

56 mins; October 03, 2019

A Natural History of Love & Loss: Late Migrations With Margaret Renkl

55 mins; September 26, 2019

Restoring The Land, Restoring A Family - Dean Kuipers On The Deer Camp

55 mins; September 19, 2019

At Home - With Plants, With Baylor Chapman, Lila B Design

54 mins; September 12, 2019

In Search of the Canary Tree, and other Thoughts on Resilience with Dr. Lauren E. Oakes

56 mins; September 05, 2019

BEST OF CP: TO BE A SEED KEEPER, Rowen White

53 mins; August 29, 2019

High Ground: Penstemons & Other Alpine Plants, Mike Kintgen, Curator at Denver Botanic Gardens

56 mins; August 22, 2019

Plant Me A Rainbow, Meg Herndon And Sandra Nam Cioffi

56 mins; August 15, 2019

Where The Wild Things Are: The Wild Yards Project, With David Newsom

56 mins; August 08, 2019

Reading A Landscape, Courtney Allen Of The Native Plant Trust

54 mins; August 01, 2019

TO BE A PLACEMAKER With Gardener And Spiritual Memoirist Christie Purifoy

55 mins; July 25, 2019

PLANTING YOUR TRUTH with Horticulturist and Public Horticulture Leader in the Making, Abra Lee

55 mins; July 18, 2019

On Posh Cow Parsley & Other Adventures In Growing Flowers From Seed, Clare Foster

51 mins; July 11, 2019

Robin Wall Kimmerer On Gardening And Citizenship

55 mins; July 04, 2019

A Garden Can Be Anywhere, With Lauri Kranz Of Edible Gardens LA + More

54 mins; June 27, 2019

A Father Daughter Horticultural Conversation with Robert & Catherine Hanss

55 mins; June 20, 2019

FOR THE LOVE OF BUGS with Entomologist, Gardener and Educator Nadia Ruffin

54 mins; June 13, 2019

Best Of: Soul Fire Farm - Committed To Ending Racism In The Food System

54 mins; June 08, 2019

A Way To Garden - 21 Years Along, With Margaret Roach

55 mins; May 30, 2019

The Happy Wanderer: The Journey Story Of Plantsman Bob Hyland

56 mins; May 23, 2019

GREEN UP: Brooklyn Botanic Garden's The Greenest Block In Brooklyn!

58 mins; May 16, 2019

LIFE FORCE & MOTHER's DAY, Louesa Roebuck Of Foraged Flora

56 mins; May 09, 2019

Truth, Beauty, Chaos And Plants: THE PLANTHUNTER Australia

56 mins; May 02, 2019

Daring To Be Wild - We ARE The Ark - With Irish Plantswoman, Mary Reynolds

57 mins; April 25, 2019

Nature Gardens At The Natural History Museum of LA County

56 mins; April 18, 2019

Hummingbirds In Our Gardens, With Dr. Susan Wethington

55 mins; April 11, 2019

The Migratory Bird Garden, The Shedd Aquarium, W/ Horticulturist Christine Nye

56 mins; April 05, 2019

Monarchs And Milkweed - Our Gardens As Habitat Series Episode 2 of 5

58 mins; March 28, 2019

The Xerces Society & Their BEE CITY Initiative - Ep. 1 Of 5 Gardens As Healthy Habitat

59 mins; March 21, 2019

Spring Break Special: Kids At Play (Outside), With Amanda Thomsen & Nancy Striniste

64 hours 45 mins; March 14, 2019

Gather, Learn, Grown: The Garden Bloggers Fling

59 mins; March 07, 2019

Farming's Bright & Just Future - The NYFC With Lindsey Lusher Shute

57 mins; February 28, 2019

Hortlandia: The Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, with Nancy Goldman

57 mins; February 21, 2019

Wave Hill And The Lifelong Learning Of Gardeners

53 mins; February 14, 2019

The Audacity Of Interconnecting With Plants: Tree, By Melina Sempill Watts

59 mins; February 07, 2019

Fire Recovery Guide, With CNPS

56 mins; January 31, 2019

Best Of - The Danger Garden - Dispatches From The Home Garden With Loree Bohl

58 mins; January 25, 2019

Fruit As The Currency Of Memory With Fruit Forager, Sara Bir

58 mins; January 17, 2019

Plant-Colored Glasses: A Botanist's Life

60 hours 37 mins; January 10, 2019

An Exercise In Intimacy: Turning Into Flowers

60 hours 11 mins; January 03, 2019

Floral Tete A Tete Fun For The New Year

54 mins; December 27, 2018

Recalibrating Our Nervous Systems & Floral Artistry With Max Gill

54 mins; December 20, 2018

When We Talk With Our Gardens: Ilene Flax, Dispatches From The Home Garden Inbox

58 mins; December 13, 2018

Seasonal Garden Book Round Up

58 mins; December 06, 2018

Adaptation & Innovation - Abigail Willis & The Compendium Of Amazing Gardening

60 hours 19 mins; December 03, 2018

Wanderlust GardenLust: An Armchair Tour Of Some Of The World’s Best New Gardens

55 mins; November 22, 2018

Gratitude & Morning Altars BEST OF

61 hours 53 mins; November 17, 2018

No Ghosts But A Good Story: The Asa Gray Garden Renovation At Mt. Auburn Cemetery

56 mins; November 12, 2018

Soul Fire Farm – Ending Racism In The Food System

57 mins; November 01, 2018

Ann Wood of Woodlucker Studios & Ngoc Minh Ngo Botanical Artistry Series, Part 4

56 mins; October 25, 2018

Julia Lucey & Botanical Aquatint Etching; Botanical Artistry Series, Part 3

41 mins; October 18, 2018

Obi Kaufmann & The California Field Atlas; Botanical Artistry Of October, Part 2

55 mins; October 12, 2018

GRAPHIC and EPIC: Kate Blairstone & Mona Caron; Botanical Artistry Series, Part 1

53 mins; October 04, 2018

The Seeds Of Who We Grow To Become: Stonegate Farm; Seeds Of September, Part 4

54 mins; September 27, 2018

To Be A Seed Keeper: Rowen White & Sierra Seed; Seeds Of September, Part 3

55 mins; September 20, 2018

Ira Wallace And Southern Exposure Seed Exchange; Seeds Of September, Part 2

54 mins; September 13, 2018

Jere Gettle, Organic Seed Alliance, Redwood Seeds; Seeds Of September, Part 1

62 hours 16 mins; September 06, 2018

More To Life Than Meets The Eye - Eugenia Bone, Author Of "Microbia"; Best of CP

55 mins; August 30, 2018

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