en https://www.cultivatingplace.com/ https://static.feedpress.com/logo/cultivatingplace-57c8653e140db.jpg Society & Culture/Philosophy Government & Organizations/Non-Profit Science & Medicine/Natural Sciences Education/Higher Education Arts nonadult Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place gardening, plants, natural history 2016 - Cultivating Place Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place http://feedpress.me/cultivatingplace gardening, plants, natural history 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 better. Take a listen. Jennifer Jewell / 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 better. Take a listen. no https://www.cultivatingplace.com/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:34:37 +0000 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:34:37 +0000 60 en 2016 - Cultivating Place feeds@soundcloud.com (SoundCloud Feeds) 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. Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place false tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2295477389 Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:34:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17312535/pansies-its-whats-for-spring 00:55:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Brenna Estrada is the owner and founder of Three Brothers Blooms, a flower farm located on 2.5 acres of Camano Island in the Pacific Northwest. Brenna is also the author of Pansies, How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas, published by Timber Press just over a year ago. Brenna makes a compelling case for revisiting our relationship to pansies, and her book was CP Host Ben Futa's own gateway to growing nearly 1,000 plants from seed in 2026. Their conversation this week spans many topics, with pansies as a worthy and common thread. As happens often in this work, we're reminded how this process of growing plants is just as much about cultivating ourselves as it is about cultivating our places. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Brenna Estrada is the owner and founder of Three … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2291178878 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:38:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17306848/springs-wild-dreams-with-jen 01:02:31 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Spring is, of course, perfect for some wild dreams about what we can and will sow in the seasons to come. With plants, and with ourselves. Jen Williams’ vision for her work as the founder of Wild Dreams Farm and Seed on Washington’s Vashon Island is to ensure abundance and biodiversity in our culture, and in our gardens, by growing and breeding open-pollinated vegetable, flower, and herb seeds that nourish our human and more-than-human communities. We revisit this best of conversation this week, just in time for some of our own wild dreaming. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Spring is, of course, perfect for some wild dream… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2286950627 Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:22:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17302177/vernal-equinox-special-the 00:59:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In honor of the Vernal Equinox, and the balance we long for, we are joined this week by humanist, conservationist, Professor, and writer in residence at the Harvard Divinity School, Terry Tempest Williams. From her 1991 classic, Refuge, An Unnatural History of Family & Place, published in 1991, to her newest title out now from Grove Atlantic, The Glorians, Visitations from the Holy Ordinary, and the more than 100 publications in between, Terry’s writing is grounded in her love of the landscapes of the U.S. West. Her love and her writings profoundly expand our love for and understanding of this whole world we call home. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of the Vernal Equinox, and the balance w… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2282518121 Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:29:04 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17298237/vital-energy-omar-al-shafie 00:56:15 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Spring is stirring, buds are swelling, and soil is warming. This week, we celebrate the joys of healthy living soil in conversation with Omar Al Shafie, co-founder of Northern California-based Teregen Ag, a purpose-driven, innovative soil and plant nutrient producer and researcher dedicated to advancing our collective transition toward sustainable, regenerative farming. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Spring is stirring, buds are swelling, and soil i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2278127321 Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:44:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17293976/public-service-john-littles-uk-based 00:56:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, host Ben Futa is in conversation with John Little, an ecological designer and public horticulture advocate living and working in the UK. His firm, the Grass Roof Company, launched in 1998. Ever since, they have been expanding and broadening ideas around public plantings, habitat, and those who care for them. John's not-for-profit, Care, Not Capital, is training the next generation of public gardeners with the skills they need to fully serve, and support the public, in the work they do. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, host Ben Futa is … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2274019760 Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:49:01 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17284472/blooming-beyond-barriers-the-flourishing-legacy 00:54:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, Abra Lee is in conversation with Laverne Brockington and Vance Davis, great nieces of Annie Mae Vann Reid, an historic florist and entrepreneur based in Darlington, South Carolina. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Annie Mae tended a thriving floral business that grew out of her hobby flower garden, and grew her community with her.  For Laverne and Vance, their aunt's legacy is rooted not only in flowers but in faith and a deep commitment to community. Through dedication and vision, she nurtured spaces of learning, pride, and possibility through this groundbreaking work. The stories passed down through her family offer a richer, more personal portrait of the woman behind the blooms. In conversation with Abra, and in conjunction with her historical research, Laverne and Vance explore the lessons Annie Mae Vann Reid planted, the barriers she broke, and the impact that continues to blossom through generations. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, Abra Lee is in co… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2269689533 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:57:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17279556/for-the-love-of-orchard-mason-bees 00:58:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As the earliest signs of spring unfurl in the mild climates, think snowdrops, manzanita, the earliest narcissus, wild iris, and Daphne odora – hmmm, the earliest pollinators are paying even more attention than we are. This week, we learn more about some of our earliest and BEST native pollinating bees – the orchard mason bees. We’re in conversation with Thyra McElvie, who loves “these sweet little bees". And it was this love that brought her to gardening in her adulthood. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Thyra works with Rent Mason Bees, an organization that helps bring efficient, native, pollinating solitary bees, including orchard mason (species in genus Osmia) and leaf-cutter bees (mostly species in genus Megachile), into home and productive landscapes around the US. Just a few fabulous statistics for us Gardeners to keep in mind as to all that we can and should feed with our gardens, including our own delight: mason bees can visit (and pollinate) up to 2,000 flowers a day (read: plant more flowers); and just 400 mason bees do the pollinating work equivalent to 4,000 honeybees because of their manner of collecting pollen with their entire abdomen results in the successful pollination of 95% of every flower they land on. Thyra joins us this week to share so much more about who these bee friends are, how to care for them, and why you and your garden will love them, too! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As the earliest signs of spring unfurl in the mil… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2265368882 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:24:08 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17275281/gardening-for-comfort-tea-golden-feather-mike-fritts 00:58:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In these dark, cold days of February, when too much rain or snow, and WAY TO MUCH ICE, or not enough rain or snow, might be getting you down, we take this week, just in time for Valentine’s Day, to embrace, lean into, and love, the comforts of tea. We're in conversation with Michael Fritts, founder of Golden Feather Tea in Concow, CA, exploring some of the history and cultivation, the rituals, and the rewards (which are many) of tea. After more than 15 years at it, and despite massive losses to his garden and farm from the Camp Fire of 2018, Mike joins us to share the ecological, cultural, economic, and personal joys of a traditional Camellia sinensis tea garden in California’s North State. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In these dark, cold days of February, when too mu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2260860719 Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:35:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17270624/the-healing-power-of-communal-acts-of-gardening-tanja-hollander 01:03:45 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Coming up this week on Cultivating Place, host Ben Futa is in conversation with artist & activist Gardener, Tanja Hollander. Tanja works with gardens, social practice, photography, video, and installation to understand how cultural and visual relationships help us make sense of our chaotic world. Very specifically, her Mourning Flowers and Ephemera projects bring awareness, often through flowers and communal acts of gardening, to the ripple effects of trauma and fear that communities sustain after acts of violence, specifically gun violence. In these chaotic and frequently violent times, we can all use some mourning to compost trauma into healthier minds, hearts, communities - and gardens. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Coming up this week on Cultivating Place, host Be… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2256628352 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:08:17 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17266231/after-the-fires-cultivating-place-in-la-with-studio-petrichor 01:06:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It’s been a full year since the devastating fires in Los Angeles, CA. Many lives were lost, and many acres and homes were burned. Many gardens, cultivated spaces, and gardeners were profoundly affected. This week, Cultivating Place checks in with two humans who are cultivating their place with care in the wake of this catastrophe. Leigh Adams and Shawn Maestretti are Studio Petrichor, based in Los Angeles. They join us this week to share so much more. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It’s been a full year since the devastating fires… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2252301623 Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:59:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17260978/mid-winter-pick-me-up-w-the-orchid-rescuer-terry-richardson 00:53:49 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week, Cultivating Place welcomes Terry Richardson in conversation with Abra Lee. Terry is known to many as The Black Thumb: Orchid Care Made Simple, an intrepid, enthusiastic, and encouraging orchid rescuer, educator, and storyteller. Terry has helped thousands of people rethink what it means to care for plants, specifically orchids! Terry’s journey began not with expertise, but with curiosity and failure. He is a self-proclaimed “black thumb,” as opposed to the more well-known "green thumb". He began rescuing discarded orchids, specifically Phalaenopsis, and gradually learned how patience and consistency could revive even the most neglected plants. It’s a good winter's tale. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Photos courtesy of Hudson Valley Seed Company & K Greene; Photo of K and Doug by Annie Tomlin, Modern Farmer. All rights reserved. This week, Cultivating Place welcomes Terry Richa… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2248196249 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:59:30 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17254190/seed-dreaming-season-revisiting-a-conversation-with-ken-greene-hudson-valley-seeds 00:56:50 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no January is prime seed-dreaming and seed-catalogue season. With that in mind, we’re revisiting a favorite conversation all about generosity, mutual care, good seeds, and seed people. Who doesn’t need more of all those as we continue to lay the foundation for this new year? Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first public library-based seed lending library in the US; in 2008, he went on to co-found with his partner Doug Muller, Hudson Valley Seed Company, a seed and art company focused on heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable, flower and herb seed. Even more interested in seed literacy, sovereignty, and cultural seed rematriation, in 2016, K and Shanyn Siegel, a seed work colleague, founded the now-dormant non-profit, Seedshed, devoted to sharing and supporting the cultural, agricultural, and ecological diversity of seed. 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.  Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. January is prime seed-dreaming and seed-catalogue… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2244091598 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:05:40 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17249567/new-year-new-systems-thinking-suburbitat-with-jim-tolstrup 00:59:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we continue our new year, we’re once again gaining elevation and new, growing thinking. We’re in conversation with Jim Tolstrup, Executive Director of the High Plains Environmental Center in Loveland, Colorado, where, by development design, they caringly cultivate Suburbitat. Suburbitat is a land ethic, a mindset, and a book that all hold a vision of a built environment where suburbia and native ecosystems exist side by side and intertwined. It is magical in all seasons! And, we can all take notes. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we continue our new year, we’re once again gai… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2240022722 Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:37:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17245134/making-the-rounds-a-new-years-conversation-with-the-cp-host-team-jennifer-abra-ben 00:55:44 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In honor of the new year, fresh-faced and open-hearted in front of us, Abra Lee, Ben Futa, and Jennifer Jewell are together this week for a first-ever CP Host check-in. We’re chatting about what we’re looking back on, what we’re looking forward to, and what we’re looking to grow in 2026! Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of the new year, fresh-faced and open-he… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2236435727 Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:46:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17241618/looking-forward-by-looking 01:03:31 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no For our final Cultivating Place episode of 2025, Abra Lee is looking forward by looking back. She’s in conversation with Philip Norman, longtime curator at the Garden Museum in London. From New Zealand to London, Philips' is a life shaped by gardens. Happy Holidays and New Year! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. All photos courtesy of Philip Norman, Garden Museum, London. All rights reserved. For our final Cultivating Place episode of 2025, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2232274721 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:06:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17237396/solstice-season-abundance-connection-dr-don-hankins 01:11:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In honor of the Winter Solstice happening this coming weekend on December 21st at 10:03 AM Pacific, we celebrate land and place-based cultivation from a foundation of cultural and spiritual care leading the way. We’re joined in this by Dr. Don Hankins, Professor of Geography and Planning at California State University, Chico. Of Miwok ancestry, Don, for decades now, has focused on applied research of indigenous stewardship practices as a “keystone process to aid in conservation and management of resources”, particularly around the cultural use of fire and and conservation of water. Don has been involved in land management and conservation local organizations and agencies as well as federal and tribal governments. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of the Winter Solstice happening this co… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2227748894 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:00:23 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17230779/bird-haven-farm-with-janet-mave 01:04:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we celebrate one woman’s long-standing and loving cultivation of place in rural New Jersey. Janet Mavec is the steward and student of Bird Haven Farm, which after many years of learning from and loving, she now celebrates in word and image in her new place-based memoir: Bird Haven Farm the Story of An Original American Garden, written by Janet and photographed by Ngoc Minh Ngo, out now from Rizzoli Press. This is a conversation about a beautiful, ecological, and intentional human and place collaboration to begin tying up the CP lessons of this season, and looking forward to seeding and inspiring the coming seasons! Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we celebrate one w… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2222990045 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:00:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17222643/the-klamath-mountains-a-natural-history-michael-kauffman-and-justin-garwood 01:08:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The Klamath Mountains are a rich site of diversity in Northern California and Southern Oregon, celebrated in Michael Kauffmann and Justin Garwood’s book The Klamath Mountains, a Natural History, from Kauffmann’s Back Country Press.  Kauffmann’s most recent book, co-written with Matt Ritter, is California Trees, was just awarded The National Outdoor Book Award, and in honor of the seeds of that book being planted by all that Back Country Press does in this world, this week we revisit the fertile Klamath Mountains and our last conversation with Michael and Justin Garwood! Enjoy! This week, we take a broader look at the mighty, now-undammed Klamath River and its namesake region, exploring the importance of knowing any place better from multiple perspectives for truly effective and durable conservation to be possible.  We’re in conversation with Michael Kauffman, research plant ecologist, educator, and founder with his botanist wife Allison of the ecologically focused Backcountry Press, and Justin Garwood, Environmental Scientist for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, with a focus on fisheries. Michael and Justin have spent the better part of the last decade curating and editing a cohort of 34 expert contributors to a new, and, really, the first comprehensive, Natural History of the Klamath Mountains, one of the most biodiverse temperate mountain ranges on earth. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The Klamath Mountains are a rich site of diversit… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2220102614 Thu, 27 Nov 2025 18:26:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17218281/492c2e8b-ee42-4044-b62d-eb7454f39917 00:56:17 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we look towards the heart of the thankful season in memory of the enormous, fierce, and grateful soul of Rabbi Arthur Waskow, who passed from this world on October 20th, fighting for the beauty of the world right up to the end. In his honor, we revisit our 2021 conversation with him, focusing on the sacred in the everyday and in the seasonal.  Rabbi Waskow was the co-founder of The Shalom Center in Philadelphia, which equips spiritual leaders with the awareness and skills needed to lead a "transformed and transformative Judaism that can help create a world of peace, justice, healing for the earth, and respect for the interconnectedness of all life."  A long-time activist for social and environmental justice, Rabbi Waskow is also the author of Seasons of our Joy, which brings reverent renewal to the ancient agricultural and season-based celebrations of the Abrahamic religions.  Enjoy, and give thanks for such souls in this world. Photo cover art from the 2012 Edition of Seasons of Our Joy, The Jewish Publication Society. Illustration from paper cuts by Martin Farren and Joan Benjamin-Farren; Photo of Rabbi Waskow benching Luvav from Slate.com; and Photo In Conversation, by Jennifer Jewell, 2021. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place.We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these.The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we look towards t… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2216162687 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:12:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17213993/yesand-practicing-the-art-of-becoming-a-cultivator-of-place-john-hart-asher 01:06:45 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no “Ecological restoration is no longer a nicety, it’s a necessity,” proclaims the Blackland Collaborative, a group working to help alter cities so that they are biodiverse and inclusive, and helping heal human communities while restoring vulnerable species. Bridging science and design, the Collaborative brings people and nature home; and they believe in humans’ capacity to improve and protect. John Hart Asher is a co-founder and senior environmental designer with the Blackland Collaborative. And he understands cultivating place well as a process of constantly practicing the art of becoming a cultivator. As we continue this month’s focus on ecological horticulture as it is practiced across the country, we welcome John Hart to the program this week. His work is currently featured in two new ecological-minded books: The Gardens of Texas, by Pam Penick, and Gardenista’s delicious and catalyzing newest title, The Low Impact Garden, by Kendra Wilson, photographed by Caitlin Atkinson. John Hart has over 13 years of experience designing and building functional ecosystems within urban conditions. He has conducted basic research in ecological engineering, ecological restoration, and land management. His work includes: tall grass prairie restoration in an urban riparian corridor, the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s Laura W. Bush Native Texas Park, native prairie green roof design, residential pocket prairies, sustainable roadsides, and green infrastructure. Since 2019, John Hart has also served as a host of the PBS program Central Texas Gardener – and yes, he’s got a pocket prairie in his garden! Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. “Ecological restoration is no longer a nicety, it… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2212056146 Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:03:48 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17208748/visions-of-resilience-and-neighborliness-dr-jared-barnes 01:03:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Dr Jared Barnes is a big G gardener – and has been since his earliest expressions of self as a toddler. Now a professor of horticulture at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, Jared is also a writer under the name of Meristem and the host of the Plantastic podcast. He wants everyone’s expression of self to include a love of plants and place. In fact, he wants us to see them, know them, and care for them as neighbors. Dr. Jared’s work, his deep place philosophy, and his home garden is featured in a new book Gardens of Texas: Visions of Resilience from the Lone Star State, by Pam Penick, photographed by Kenny Braun. Jared is with CP this week to share more about his work, his place, and his neighborly love. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Dr Jared Barnes is a big G gardener – and has bee… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2208046409 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:02:33 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17204547/grow-like-wild-with-rebecca-mcmackin 01:04:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, Host Ben Futa is in conversation with Rebecca McMackin, a dedicated public servant working in the context of ecological horticulture. Rebecca is on a mission to empower more people to grow more plants in more places while cultivating empathy, compassion, and advocacy for the natural world. We last heard from Rebecca here on CP in 2021, and a lot has happened in her growing life since then! Rebecca is an ecologically obsessed horticulturist and garden designer. She lives in the woods of Connecticut, writing, lecturing, and designing gardens. She is a public servant, dedicated to bringing beauty and biodiversity to all corners of our cities. Her TED Talk has been viewed more than a million times. She has a widely read monthly Full Moon Newsletter, "Grow Like Wild," sharing forward ecological horticulture research around the world, general horticultural dismay, and growing “gossip,” as she likes to say, all of which you can subscribe to on Substack as writing and, now, a podcast version as well.  Prior to all this, Rebecca spent a decade as Director of Horticulture of Brooklyn Bridge Park, where she managed 85 acres of diverse parkland organically and with an eye towards habitat creation for birds, butterflies, and soil microorganisms. Their research into cultivating urban biodiversity and ethical management strategies has influenced thousands of people and entire urban park systems to adopt similar approaches. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, Host Ben Futa is … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2202661491 Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:29:52 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17200087/final-artober-conversation-the-ecology-of-gullah-sweetgrass-baskets-mary-jackson 01:04:46 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we finish up Artober on CP, in conversation with artist, Mary Jackson, a renowned sweetgrass basket weaver known for combining traditional methods with contemporary designs.  Based in the Low Country of South Carolina, Mary is the descendant of generations of Gullah basket weavers. Born in 1945, in 2008, Mary was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship (“Genius Grant”) for "pushing the centuries-old tradition in stunning new directions”.  From the 1970s through to the early 2000s, Mary became something of an accidental Gardener, environmental restorationist, and economic driver, when she recognized the dwindling supply and access to the signature native sweetgrass that her cultural art and tradition relied on. This diminishing resource was due in part to booming development along the U.S. Southeast coasts, the fragmentation and destruction of delicate coastal ecosystems, and the increasing exclusion of Gullah basketmakers from traditional harvest sites. Mary took it on herself to organize the basketmaking community, and working in collaboration with this community and Robert DuFault, of the Clemson University Department of Biological Sciences, her initiative led work to secure sustainable availability and access to native sweetgrass (Muhlenbergia sp.) for the traditional basket makers, and future of this traditional art, craft, and cultural symbol. Gullah Sweetgrass baskets are an over 400-year tradition in the U.S. Southeast, first as a highly prized skill and centuries, if not millennia-old, passed-down knowledge of enslaved West Africans being brought to the colonies. These skills and knowledge directly contributed to the success specifically of rice farming in the region, where highly developed and precisely crafted utilitarian baskets were used for everything from carrying, harvesting, winnowing, to fine household tasks.  Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets are a continued symbol of the City of Charleston, South Carolina, and for over a century, these skilled artists and their basketry have been an economic and cultural mainstay in the region. All depending on healthy and abundant native sweetgrass, palmetto, and loblolly or longleaf pine ecosystems and supply. The “access” Mary catalyzed in response to this contraction of the health and supply of sweetgrass ultimately included: research into successful germination of sweetgrass at scale and teaching basket makers how to grow sweetgrass at home; the enventual introduction of Muhlenbergia species to the plant and garden trade, making it now a staple of the ornamental grass and native plant movements; large-scale plantings of the grasses on private and public grounds with permission for basketmakers to harvest and tend; and, finally, Army Corps of Engineers and coastal developments working to replant and restorate inter-tidal beach dunes with the stabilizing native sweetgrass.  All of this from one woman’s impulse to cultivate plants with an eye to protecting the legacy of her people, and the future of their craft. Now an elder, Mary agreed to be one of the interview subjects of our 10 Cultivating Place Live events in 2024 and 2025. For the CP LIVE events, which will be included in the final Cultivating Place: The Power of Gardeners documentary film series, Jennifer interviewed Mary Jackson, Robert Dufault, and next-generation artist and Sweetgrass basket leader, Corey Alston in front of a public audience in Theodora Park, Charleston, SC. This week’s podcast conversation was an interview with just Mary and Jennifer filmed and recorded live by EM EN in Mary’s Studio, on John’s Island, outside of Charleston. Enjoy! This week we finish up Artober on CP, in conversa… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2197250631 Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:07:29 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17192114/artober-tracy-qui-artfully-exploring-how-plants-stories-and-cultures-intersect 00:55:07 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on CP, host Abra Lee is joined in conversation by Tracy Qiu, a horticulturist, researcher, and advocate who explores how plants, stories, and culture intersect. Tracy holds a masters in Public Horticulture from the University of Delaware, is a Longwood Fellow, and is finishing her doctoral thesis at Concordia University in Montreal. Her work explores the colonial roots of botanical gardens. Tracy and Abra will explore Tracy’s journey from her family’s beginnings on a farm in China to studying ethnobotany and advocating for greater diversity, access, and narrative justice in horticulture. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on CP, host Abra Lee is joined in conve… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2191793023 Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:41:40 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17187691/artober-cp-live-invisible-neighbors-with-la-based-studio-tutto 01:14:40 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Welcome to our next airing of a CP LIVE* conversation, this time in celebration of Artober in conversation with Sofia Laçin and Hennessy Christophel, of LA-based Studio Tutto. On highway underpasses, school walls, public park welcome centers, and city water towers, the epic hand-crafted murals of Studio Tutto tell visual stories of invisible nature to help people connect and become familiar with what is surrounding us, but we often do not notice. Their “thoughtful site-specific pieces invite and incite softness and meaningful connection between people and place, and in so doing, they are “optimistically shaping the way we see ourselves and the world around us.” The interview and gathering for it took place around this same time last year, when Studio Tutto’s Mural “Invisible Neighbors” was completed and unveiled for the first time as a centerpiece for the Welcome Center at LA’s storied Griffith Park, one of the largest municipal parks embracing urban wilderness in the United States. With over 4200 acres of both natural chaparral and landscaped parkland, it is a complex and interesting refuge for humans, wildlife, and plant communities. Situated in the arid eastern Santa Monica Mountain Range, the park features varied topography and diverse plant communities, including coastal sage scrub, oak, and native walnut woodlands, as well as riparian creek vegetation and deep canyons. It is an ongoing experiment in how humans and wildlands intersect, interface, and, in the best-case scenarios, strive for a compassionate coexistence. One celebrated example of this struggle is the life of a mountain lion who spent his adult life in the park, became beloved by the world, and ultimately died there. When Studio Tutto was commissioned to create one of their powerful murals for the reopening of Griffith Park’s historic welcome center, after much research and thought, their mural became “An artistic [visual] altar to the spirit of P-22 [and his last wild place].” The mandate for me in these CP LIVE experiences and interviews is to not only give voice to (as the podcast always does), but actually make visible the many diverse connections animated by the gardening impulse everywhere. What this conversation makes visible to me, and I hope to all listeners, is that gardening is a multifaceted act – it is physical, it is intellectual, it is artistic and imaginative, it is tangible, and symbolic. It is one lens and method by which we know nature, and by which we participate in the nature of the world, and the nature of ourselves. Through their larger-than-life art (or maybe it’s art trying to meet a truer scale of life’s enormity?), and the nature it brings into our view, Studio Tutto is growing, painting, and weaving the beauty of the sacred presence of nature back into everyday human places, and they are weaving humans back into nature’s places, like Griffith Park. Are artists gardening our world? These artists are. The more we see and support the incredible diversity of who Gardeners are, what they grow, and what Gardens mean, the better we grow our world. ENJOY this artful conversation with Hennessy and Sofia! *CP LIVE is a series of 10 CP conversations recorded and filmed live on the home ground of, and in support of, the cultivators of place with whom we are in conversation. These events, and the upcoming documentary series, are filmed by Myriam Nicodemus and Khoa Huyhn of EM EN in South Bend, IN. The series was made possible in part by funding from the Catto-Shaw Foundation. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Welcome to our next airing of a CP LIVE* conversa… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2186308323 Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:44:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17182448/artober-an-artful-life-with-flowers-frances-palmer 01:00:38 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In a world that needs a great deal from us right now, we can almost never go wrong by igniting our creativity. This week on CP we dive deeper into ArtTober in conversation with one of our favorite creatives, artists, gardeners, writers, teachers, and flower lovers. We’re speaking once again with writer, photographer, and potter Frances Palmer about her new book Life with Flowers, inspiration and lessons from the garden (2025, Artisan), a sort of Masterclass in growing, arranging with, and loving the art of flowers. A previous guest on the program, one of the 75 women featured in my book The Earth in Her Hands, Frances, is a fantastic inspiration for any creative gardener-maker out there! Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In a world that needs a great deal from us right … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2181021035 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:33:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17176262/kicking-off-artober-on-cp-wild-by-design-the-art-of-planting-with-ben-obrien 00:55:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on CP, we kick off ARTOBER. Host Ben Futa is talking all things Wild By Design, the Art of Planting. He’s in conversation with Ben O’Brien of Wild By Design, who creates "artfully crafted, richly planted, lovingly tended gardens". Based in Ontario, Ben O’Brien believes that the best gardens captivate, delight, and deeply resonate with people; they respond to, reveal, and amplify the magic of a place; and they are those born from a genuine love of plants. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on CP, we kick off ARTOBER. Host Ben Fu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2176635402 Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:36:35 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17171438/the-hidden-histories-of-garden-legacies-with-rose-vincent-resource-librarian-nybg 00:54:07 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, in honor of this first week of Autumn, and the idea of passing time, looking back, and the importance of memory and history, host Abra Lee welcomes someone whose work reminds us that gardens are not only grown in the soil but also in the stories we keep and share. Abra is in conversation with Rose Vincent, Resource Sharing Librarian at the New York Botanical Garden’s renowned Mertz Library. Rose helps make one of the world’s greatest collections of botanical knowledge accessible to people everywhere. Through her work, Rose ensures that plant lovers, researchers, and communities can connect, which links us through the living history of plants, gardens, and the people who tend them. She’s also a curator and collaborator on creative exhibits, such as Dead Formats, which explore the various ways humans have recorded and shared their relationship with the plant world. Rose’s work reminds us that libraries are not quiet, static spaces, but vibrant, growing gardens of knowledge — alive with connection, curiosity, and care. Rose is a librarian, a connector, a storyteller, and a keeper of botanical memory. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. All photos Courtesy of Rose Vincent & NYBG, all rights reserved. This week on Cultivating Place, in honor of this … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2172736941 Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:16:51 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17165989/the-adventurous-art-of-cultivating-place-with-peg-awl 01:09:22 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we lean into the Art of CP, exploring how the act of Cultivating Place is artful, and how Art can be one our most beautiful acts of Cultivating Place. How acts of Cultivating Place and acts of making Art both offer us the agency to create new worlds, or new versions of our current world. These human impulses are simultaneously miraculous and represent the endless variations on life modeled to us by this world. We’re in conversation with the deeply placed, curiosity, and art-based duo of Margaux and Walter Kent – visionaries behind the artful life resource known as Peg & Awl. They’re joining us from their home, shop, studios, and five-acre wood in West Chester, PA. As Walter shares: “When I am not making something or making a place to make something, I feel lost or confused.” As Margaux writes: “The world is bursting with magic, and for anyone looking, it positively pulses!” These two truths are among the many gifts given to us through our Cultivating Place and Artful practices. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we lean into the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2168974815 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:47:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17142014/great-green-heights-cincinnatis-green-roofs-and-rooftop-garden-with-rose-henry-seeger 00:56:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, developed the program that has earned it the nickname: Green City. The Green Cincinnati Plan (GCP) is a now-17-year-running community vision updated regularly to address climate change and build a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient future for its citizens. 2008 was also the year that garden/grower by nature and engineer by profession, Rose Henry Seeger, was introduced to the amazing concept of Green Roofs as a way to make architecture integral to a more sustainable and healthy urban future. Green roofs provide positive and healing benefits for both the environment and its people, brought Rose’s interest in growing and engineering together. She’s never looked back since founding Green City Resources, a Cincinnati-based, woman-owned company specializing in the design, installation, and maintenance of stormwater management systems; bioretention, vegetated / green roofing, rainwater harvesting, and native/sustainable landscaping. Many of their gardens do all of this as well as being healing and horticulture therapy gardens. This is Cultivating Place at elevation. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio, developed the program … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2164916997 Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:01:49 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17136054/mums-the-flower-of-fall-with-jessica-hall-of-harmony-harvest-flower-farm 00:57:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we celebrate late summer and fall on the horizon in conversation about one of fall’s stars in the garden… past, present, and future. CP host Ben Futa is in conversation with Jessica Hall of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm, based in Weyers Cave, Virginia, to explore their "Mum Project," which aims to revive chrysanthemum production in the US by preserving, sharing, and evaluating heirloom/heritage mums. On On November 13th, 2025 Harmony Harvest's annual Virtual Mum Summit returns, bringing together growers, designers, and flower lovers for a full day of inspiration, learning, and fun. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we celebrate late… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2160937023 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:21:38 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17129111/seed-your-future-with-jazmin-albarran 00:53:44 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, host Abra Lee dives into the world of pathways to plant professions with Jazmin Albarran, executive Director of Seed Your Future, a non-profit whose vision is a world where Everyone understands the power of plants and is aware of the promising careers in the art, science, technology, and business of horticulture. Horticulture is the art, technology, and science of plants. It is the food we eat, the landscapes we live and play in, and the environments we thrive in. It is the business of managing and utilizing what we grow while maintaining the health of our soil, air, and water, as well as the well-being of our children, communities, and the world. In short - it's all about plants! Every day, the plant world is quietly led by horticulture heroes and plant champions who make an enormous impact on our lives and the future of the planet. Through their online, in-person and year-round programs, including the Horticultural Heroes stories shared, the Immersive Learning for High School Educators, Green Career Week (coming up October 6 - 10, 2025), Seed Your Future aims to share stories, promote horticulture, and inspire more people to pursue careers working with plants. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, host Abra Lee div… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2157097557 Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:10:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17123815/the-generosity-of-an-orchard-the-giving-grove 01:17:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As autumn and harvest begins to color the edges of our awareness, this week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by two people whose work is all about perennial and abundant harvest as represented by the concept, and the endless generosity, of an Orchard.  The Giving Grove, based in Kansas City, lives a purpose of providing healthy calories, strengthening community, and improving the urban environment through a nationwide network of sustainable little orchards. Jennifer is in conversation with the Giving Grove’s Co-Executive Director, Ashley Vernon,  and Ryan Watson, the National Orchard Operations and Education Manager, who share more about their work nurturing communal orchardists across the country in 16 sites and 650 little orchards with big impact. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As autumn and harvest begins to color the edges o… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2153190666 Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:35:55 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17119696/back-to-a-source-the-somme-prairie-grove-nature-preserve 01:07:07 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Looking back, even just this year, Cultivating Place has had multiple conversations with plantspeople from around the country about the inspirational plants from, and places known as, prairies. An iconic and beloved ecosystem strongly identified with the American Midwest. As summer warms and mellows into its Augustness, we’re in conversation this week with two humans who are cultivating their place with the specific purpose of keeping native extant prairie alive and thriving. Stephen Packard and Eriko Kojima of the Somme Prairie Grove Nature Preserve in Illinois join CP today to share more about their prairie place. In the summer of 2021, the Forest Preserves of Illinois’ Cook County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution recognizing Somme Prairie Grove as the 27th dedicated Illinois Nature Preserve managed by the Forest Preserves of Cook County. Part of the Somme Preserves located in Northbrook in north Cook County, Somme Prairie Grove offers 85 acres of high-quality mesic savanna and dry-mesic woodland. The site supports many conserved native plant species, and savanna and shrubland breeding birds. Somme Prairie Grove has benefited from a vibrant stewardship community—led by the North Branch Restoration Project—since 1980 and represents one of the oldest and most comprehensive savanna and woodland restorations in the Midwest. The recovery of Somme Prairie Grove is credited to the longstanding participation of this cohort of dedicated and talented community volunteers, including both the volunteer who kicked it all off, Stephen Packard, and a volunteer since 2015, Eriko. In this back-to-school moment here in the U.S. let us remember there is always more to learn, and we owe a great deal to the teachers – be they 4th grade teachers, nobel prize winning professors, other big G gardeners, prairies or other beloved ecosystems of our places. Listen in - and Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Looking back, even just this year, Cultivating Pl… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2149557459 Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:40:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17113381/bright-autumn-nights-gleam-at-olbrich-botanical-gardens 00:54:29 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Hot August nights turn to bright August nights at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI.  The Garden's annual GLEAM light show is celebrating its 10th anniversary and opens August 30th, transforming the very bright-by-day gardens into equally bright in a different way by night. The award-winning display runs through October 25th, and this year’s exhibit will center on the concept of reflection. Illuminated art installations by light artists from around the country will brighten the Gardens’ landscape, reflecting a language of love for the natural world. Concepts such as the intrigue of plants at night, photosynthesis, bioluminescence, and dynamic equilibrium have all been highlighted in past year’s displays. Join CP host Ben Futa in conversation this week with Benjamin Smith, Show Curator and Missy Jeanne, Public Programs Manager at Olbrich to talk all things bright and beautiful at Olbrich for this GLEAM season. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Hot August nights turn to bright August nights at… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2139785550 Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:14:04 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17109076/prairie-up-with-plantsperson-benjamin-vogt-best-of 01:02:12 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Ahhh, high summer, my friends – this week we continue with our CP summer-break reprisals, reminding us of the importance of the great outdoors and the care and cultivation of it, revisiting ecological-plantsman Benjamin Vogt’s great work Prairie Up! To inspire your planting and designs for the season ahead, a fierce advocate on behalf of our gardens being critically important links in our world’s broken and fragmented ecological chains. You may remember my 2018 conversation with Benjamin about his first book –A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future? Well, that ethical manifesto now has an instruction manual in Benjamin’s second book - Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design – it might be just the reference you need to get your fall planting and planning season off to a great start. Join us this week for more with Benjamin Vogt! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Ahhh, high summer, my friends – this week we cont… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2135975376 Thu, 24 Jul 2025 19:45:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17098441/coming-to-our-senses-wildscape-with-master-naturalist-nancy-lawson-best-of 01:00:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening, and even rotting. This week, we revisit a BEST OF conversation that embraces this sublime sensuality from a variety of perspectives, in conversation with master naturalist Nancy Lawson.  Nancy is perhaps best known as "The Humane Gardener", the title of her first book, and her online signature. And a humane gardener she is. Nancy is a habitat consultant and founder of The Humane Gardener, LLC. She observes, researches, and pioneers creative wildlife-friendly landscaping methods in her own home habitat and for others. In other words – and in all senses of the phrase – Nancy puts her gardening where her words are, and words and action come together beautifully in her newest book, Wildscape, Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and other Sensory wonders of Nature.  Together this week, we delve into her newest research and reporting on the complexity and richness of the sensory life of other than human lives: from the botanical to the birds, bugs, mammals, amphibians other wildlife all around us. Wildscape is eye, ear, nose and heart opening! Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory de… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2131857501 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:07:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17098696/the-nature-place-la-crosse-wi-with-rebecca-schwarz-and-paige-manges 00:54:43 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we’re getting back to nature for summer camp: ALL ages invited. We’re in conversation with Rebecca Schwarz and Paige Manges of The Nature Place in La Crosse, WI. It’s a place where we all belong and can keep growing – for sustenance, for survival, and for joy. The Nature Place is dedicated to inspiring and cultivating meaningful connections between people and nature, for the benefit of both, through all-ages programming at their nature-focused community center open to the public, located in La Crosse’s beautiful Myrick Park. With summer vacation in full swing, enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we’re getting back to nature for summer… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2127842838 Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:44:33 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17089878/a-global-garden-adventurer-plantswoman-lucie-willan 01:04:12 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, you are in for a real summer adventure on a global garden armchair tour of sorts with a plantswoman who has studied and gardened at some of the Western world’s best from Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and Monk’s House in the UK to Sparoza in Greece. Lucie Willan has great garden tales to tell. A perfect summer garden beach, listen if there is one. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, you are in for a … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2124016833 Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:56:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17068678/july-4th-special-great-expectations-cp-live-with-benfuta-of-botany-and-co-south-bend-in 01:02:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no THIS WEEK on CP - OUR NEXT CP LIVE podcast! And we head to Indiana with our very own Ben Futa. Botany & Co. in South Bend, Indiana is dedicated to “empowering more people to plant more plants in more places!” In a town that has seen more than its share of social, economic, and environmental challenges in the past few decades, Botany & Co., Ben’s dream come true, is stimulating community, biodiversity, economic growth, and joy.  It was bitterly cold in South Bend last March, but Botany Shop was warm with sharing, with growing, and with community – all of which you can hear in this conversation. The full cohort of the ten 2024/2025 transformative CP LIVE experiences is right now being crafted by the CP LIVE team into a powerful documentary film experience, sharing the many–often surprising and unseen–ways that (big G) Gardeners cultivating their places with care grow us ALL better. And when we see the full power of Gardeners, we value them more appropriately. When we value and support them, they can grow our world better, even more beautifully, more intentionally, and more effectively. This July 4th week here in the U.S., as we think about the privileges, opportunities and responsibilities of being citizens of our places, we’re so pleased to share forward this conversation with Ben, a remarkable plantsperson, ecosystem and community steward, and regular host here on Cultivating Place.  For much more about the CP LIVE documentary film in-process:  ➡️ cultivatingplace.org/film to see, share, and support for yourself 💚. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. All photos are courtesy of Ben Futa, Botany & Co., Myriam Nicodemus, and Jennifer Jewell. All rights are reserved. THIS WEEK on CP - OUR NEXT CP LIVE podcast! And w… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2120133309 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:51:47 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17064154/rooted-in-education-richard-m-smith-director-nybg-school-of-professional-horticulture 00:54:38 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is joined in conversation by someone whose path into horticulture is both inspiring and honest—Richard M. Smith, director of the School of Professional Horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden. Richard grew up in Belle Glade, Florida—folks there call it Muck City, thanks to their deep, rich soil. And while Richard didn’t start off in horticulture, that love for plants was always in him. Now his career is focused on helping people from all walks of life find their way into this field—building careers, finding purpose, and growing something meaningful. As someone who is growing more than just plants, Richard is all about access, mentorship, and ensuring the door stays open behind him. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra L… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2116269117 Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:27:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17059842/midsummers-night-magic-with-leigh-ann-henion 01:04:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder – someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible diversity of moths. Creatures whose lives benefit ours and yet take place primarily under the cover of the dark of night. In this week of the Summer Solstice, in our seasonal period of longest days and shortest nights in the Northern Hemisphere, we pause to consider and revel in the importance—the life-nurturing, life-giving, and restorative magic of the dark. Leigh Ann Henion is the author of Night Magic, Adventures among Glowworms, Moon Gardens and other Marvels of the Dark – a beautiful road map for all of us in better knowing and appreciating the greater fullness of the lives of our places – especially those lives that bloom, grow, and come out at night. Listen in and enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2112267813 Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:57:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17050317/getting-to-know-our-neighbors-preparing-for-national-pollinator-week-with-colorados-ppan 01:17:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Every year since 2007, when the US Senate passed sanctions declaring it, the third week of June is celebrated as National Pollinator Week. It is no accident that this is the same week as the Summer Solstice, when many pollinators reach their peak. Since 2017, however, the state of Colorado has celebrated June as National Pollinator Month, and this week we hear more, celebrate wins, and focus on the work remaining with two members of PPAN – Colorado’s own People & Pollinators Action Network. Promotes pollinator-friendly land management and landscaping practices through community education, engagement, and advocacy to preserve biodiversity and safeguard public health. They beautifully envision a world with healthy, sustainable ecosystems where people and pollinators can thrive now and for generations to come. They conduct their world-improving work at the grassroots, municipal, and state levels, advocating for policies and practices that reduce or eliminate the use of pesticides and create and connect swaths of pollinator-safe habitat with the intent of reversing the drastic decline of pollinator populations. Joyce Kennedy, PPAN's executive director, and Emily KenCairn, director of communications and development, will join us this week to share more about how they are doing all that they are doing and how we can, too. Both of them are Gardeners with a capital G. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Every year since 2007, when the US Senate passed … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2108371080 Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:25:46 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17045669/transformative-beauty-ben-futa-in-conversation-with-montreal-based-floral-designer-marc-sardi 00:55:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no To welcome the fullness of June, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is back and in conversation with Marc Sardi, a Montreal-based scientist turned floral artist who has reinvented his relationship with the natural world, and himself, along with changing careers.  It’s an authentic conversation exploring how rediscovering our most authentic relationship with plants also allows us to know ourselves, and our world, better. It’s lush, it’s life-affirming, and it’s grounding in all the best ways. Listen in and Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. All photos are courtesy of Marc Sardi, and all rights reserved. Bio Image of Marc by Christophe Roberge, all rights reserved. To welcome the fullness of June, this week on Cul… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2104373118 Thu, 29 May 2025 16:38:22 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17040850/nutritious-movement-the-gardener-with-katy-bowman 01:07:11 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Summer makes it easy to move your body – to get out for a walk, to work in the garden, to hike, bike, stroll, boat, climb, swim, dance under the stars. Whatever calls you. But as we know, many of us – most of us? Do not move enough, and even if we do, we don’t get a balanced diet of movement. Which Gardening can help with, and which physical movement, expert Katy Bowman says, is essential to a healthy body, mind, heart, and attitude. Katy is the founder of Nutritious Movement, and she joins us on Cultivating Place this week to share more. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Summer makes it easy to move your body – to get o… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2100406128 Thu, 22 May 2025 16:41:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17036189/raised-beds-raised-voices-guest-host-abra-lee-in-conversation-with-phillys-guina-hammond 00:58:50 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's program manager of sustainable communities. She is also deeply involved in her hometown of Philadelphia as a certified organic landcare professional, PHS Tree Tender, Penn State Master Gardener, and planning team member for the Mid-Atlantic Woody & Perennial Plant Conference.  In addition to that incredible list of accomplishments, Guina is a down-to-earth plant lover at heart who desires to bring gardening to the doorstep of your everyday neighbor. As the founding member of the Chester Avenue Community Garden, a PHS-supported garden, she has grown award-winning produce for the past 38 years. CP Guest Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Guina this week to learn and share more. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural S… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2096467107 Thu, 15 May 2025 17:32:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17031940/that-green-thing-inside-us-all-jill-mays-on-nurturing-nature-gardening-for-special-needs 00:58:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As the summer gardening season rolls into full-throated song, the idea of who has access to the work, joy, and benefits of this practice also comes into view—and feeds what Occupational Therapist and author Jill Mays calls that "green thing inside of us all." As an occupational therapist by career and calling, over the course of her professional life, it became increasingly clear to Jill how many of the occupational therapy goals she set for her diverse clients were well met by the variety of activities, sensory stimulations, and social, mental, and physical benefits of gardening—preferably outside and in the company of others. After several years of developing gardening programs in her now-home town of Truro, MA, Jill has documented the journey of her work, research, and garden program designs for a wide range of special needs in her new book: Nurturing Nature, A Guide to Gardening for Special Needs. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As the summer gardening season rolls into full-th… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2092376133 Thu, 08 May 2025 16:54:13 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17026133/a-beautiful-journey-plantswoman-holly-shimizu-emeritus-director-us-botanic-garden 01:01:49 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This second week of May, we welcome gardener and plantswoman Holly Shimizu. Her four decades of work in some of America’s notable public gardens have tracked and traced some of the most impactful changes in public garden standards, expectations, and accountability in that same time frame. From her visionary leadership roles at the National Herb Garden, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, and the US Botanic Garden to her current board position at the American Horticultural Society, Holly’s garden life is a beautiful public-garden journey that benefits us all. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This second week of May, we welcome gardener and … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2088403629 Thu, 01 May 2025 17:30:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17020117/happy-may-day-growing-home-humble-roots-the-pacific-northwest-native-plant-primer 01:05:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we welcome May, with all of her floral and plant profusion, revisiting a conversation we loved with Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt of Humble Roots Nursery in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. Acclaimed for their native plant passions, knowledge, and integrity, Kristin and Drew are the authors of the Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer - one of a series of such primers from around the country steering us as gardeners toward beautiful ecological gardens and place based relationships. Cheers to May and our gardens' weaving us back into the wonder of the world. Humble Roots is a native plant nursery acclaimed for its efforts in sustainability and promoting native plant passion, knowledge, and ethics across the wider eco-regions of the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer, 225 plants for an Earth Friendly Garden (Timber Press, 2023), or one of its relations might be just the inspiration we all need to get us planting in the right direction this spring and summer! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we welcome May, wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2084533290 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 17:33:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17014085/for-the-love-of-soil-earth-juliet-sargeant 01:01:57 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Juliet Sargeant is an award-winning English garden designer who blends beauty with purpose in every space she creates. Juliet’s unique background in medicine, science, and psychology gives her designs a whole new depth, focusing on wellbeing and connection. You might recognize her name from that time in 2016 when she made history as the first Black Woman garden designer to display at the Chelsea Flower Show, and her design - Modern Slavery Garden, won a Gold Medal and the People’s Choice Prize.  This Earth Day week, we’re celebrating Juliet's design background and digging in to her new book “Start With Soil: Simple Steps for a Thriving Garden” which publishes on May 1st from Frances Lincoln. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Juliet Sargeant is an award-winning English garde… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2080600545 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:24:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17009341/the-holy-earth-the-nature-study-idea-john-stempien-on-the-legacy-of-liberty-hyde-bailey 01:00:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In this holy season of spring in the Northern Hemisphere, with the earth reviving herself in greenery and flowers, birds, bees, and butterflies all around us, I am so pleased to be in conversation today with a gardener who will represent another gardener -one in the here now and one from more than a century ago, whose words resonate into the present. I believe in the future, so beautifully. John Stempien is the emeritus director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum in South Haven, Michigan. He joins us today to share more about his garden life path, following in the footsteps of the great garden life path sown, grown, and walked on by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Jr, avid and reverent gardener, often considered to be the "father of modern [Western] horticulture” Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In this holy season of spring in the Northern Hem… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2075625932 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:30:35 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17003195/love-letter-to-a-garden-debbie-millman-of-design-matters 00:59:20 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Debbie Millman has written love letters before. Her 20 years of creating and hosting the popular podcast Design Matters is just one of them. Her many books, several of them established reference books in the design and branding worlds, are among others. I am guessing she’s written a few to her wife the author Roxanne Gay, who contributed recipes to Debbie’s newest book. While I enjoy all good love letters, Debbie’s newest love letter in book form, (launching next week - April 15th) entitled Love Letter to a Garden, is one that definitely caught my eye and ear.  I am going to wager that gardeners, young and old, new and longstanding, all feel that quickening of their pulse with Spring, sap rising, bulbs blooming, the new season all a bright shining blank page of possibility. It is a distinctive and palpable kind of love. With April and the season’s annual returning sense of rejuvenation, resurrection, and regeneration, Debbie Millman’s new book - Love Letter to a Garden – captures that particular passion many of us will recognize of falling in love with gardening…every single season. Debbie has accomplished in one beautiful seed-like book so much of what I have hoped to capture in 10 years of Cultivating Place – the WONDER of what it means to identify as a Gardener in our world, the EVERYTHING that Gardens bring to our lives. I am so pleased to welcome Debbie to CP this week. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Debbie Millman has written love letters before. H… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2070270232 Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16998440/the-vibrant-new-natural-gardening-of-kelly-d-norris 01:05:24 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no You might remember Cultivating Place's first conversation with Iowa-based plantsman, Kelly D. Norris, back in 2021, in celebration of his book New Naturalism, designing and planting a resilient, ecologically vibrant home garden. And we’re so pleased to get him back this week in conversation with CP Guest Host Ben Futa to talk more about this current moment in naturalistic design, and Kelly’s newest and very useful book: Your Natural Garden, a practical guide to caring for an ecologically vibrant home garden, which published in January of this year. Kelly is one of the leading horticulturists of this generation, and in his practice, he explores the narrative of place through site-specific plantings and landscape interventions. An award-winning author and plantsman, his eponymous design studio works in public and private places across North America. The studio annually produces the New Naturalism Academy, a virtual school for enthusiastic designers, as a commitment to continuing education and lifelong learning. He’s also the founder and curator of The Public Horticulture Company, an emerging ecological landscape startup based in Des Moines, Iowa. He is the former director of horticulture and education at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, where for eight years, he directed efforts in design, curation, programming, garden, and facility management to nearly $20 million in capital projects. We’re so pleased to share his plant-driven, utterly magic, paradigm shifting work with you all again. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. You might remember Cultivating Place's first conv… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2064776572 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16992944/transformational-from-banker-to-trailblazing-idea-leader-in-public-horticulture-mae-lin-plummer 00:57:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with a horticultural leader with big IDEAs. Mae Lin Plummer is the Director of the IDEA Center for Public Gardens in Denver Colorado. Mae Lin’s journey into gardening started in her backyard in Charlotte, NC where she simply wanted "a pretty place to throw parties." That blossomed into a full-on plant obsession and a major career shift—from banking to horticulture. Mae Lin’s passion is connecting people to the natural world through gardens. Her story is filled with joy, life lessons, and a deep love for how gardens can transform lives. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra L… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2059217332 Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16988378/spring-equinox-special-practicing-re-enchantment-encountering-dragonflies-with-brooke-williams 01:12:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Happy Spring Equinox! To welcome Spring – especially this exact Spring in the US - practicing re-enchantment in our world seemed exactly the right focus. I think this is part of what Gardeners do: practice enchantment or love with the natural world we care for. We’re in conversation this week with Brooke Williams: writer, naturalist, amateur conservation ecologist, thinker, observer, and walker. Based in the Great Salt Lake region of Utah with his wife, acclaimed writer Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness in our world. He is also a Gardener, and author most recently of Encountering Dragonfly, Notes on the Practice of Re-Enchantment. Dragonflies are of course among our favorite and most enchanting of companions in the garden – our built-in pest control for other insects such as mosquitos; predators who are not themselves pests in our lives. Squadrons of dragonflies patrolling the garden or wild lands in Summer are symbols everywhere of transformation and balance. For the ecological and symbolic importance of dragonflies to our human lives, I am so pleased to welcome Brooke to Cultivating Place. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Happy Spring Equinox! To welcome Spring – especi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2053732072 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16982863/life-is-big-to-be-a-poet-gardener-tess-taylor 01:05:04 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the plants in every cell of your body, it’s springtime! An award-winning poet with many collection titles to her name and editor of the life-supporting anthology Leaning Toward Light Poems for Gardens and the Hands that Tend Them, Tess is also the Poet Laureate of El Cerrito, California. In honor of Women’s History Month AND the vernal equinox arriving next week on March 20th,  I thought we could all use some poetic focus. I am so pleased to share this conversation with Tess forward. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – a… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2048310892 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16978341/the-curious-dr-margaret-funk-flora-frost 00:57:17 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Dr. Margaret Funk is the curious Midwest gardener (and doctor) behind the online name Flora & Frost. Cultivating her Minnesota garden for years, like so many of us, she really dove in deep in 2020. She and her family have now converted most of their lawn into a vibrant garden with a small greenhouse, raised beds for veggies, ornamental plants, and a growing collection of native plants. As an online communicator herself, Margaret combines her love of gardening with her with her love of science AND laughter. She has a remarkable skill at presenting often complex topics in an accessible, authentic, inspiring, and entertaining way. In honor of Women’s History Month, Margaret joins Guest Host Ben Futa this week on Cultivating Place - Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Dr. Margaret Funk is the curious Midwest gardener… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2043088693 Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16972504/from-east-africa-to-the-world-landscape-designs-wambui-ippolito 00:53:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no From East Africa to the World, landscape design's Wambui Ippolito by Jennifer Jewell From East Africa to the World, landscape design's… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2038840472 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16967189/portrait-of-a-black-woman-in-her-garden-leslie-bennett-pine-house-edible-gardens-black-sanctuary-gardens 01:18:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women’s History Month - this week we’re so pleased to air another of our CP LIVE: Dialogues to Grow By conversations, recorded live in front of an audience on the home ground of the Cultivators of Place with whom we are speaking.  This week’s CP LIVE recording focuses on the paradigm-shifting landscape work of Leslie Bennett, who is dedicated to beautifully designed, edible-plant-rich, culturally rooted gardens for all people AND centering Black Women in the American Landscape. It’s a great pairing. The interview and gathering for it took place on an unexpectedly chilly evening in late September 2024. Still, the spirited audience of 80+ people - in full celebratory finery - was not bothered at all. And the event was also an occasion for the first public unveiling of photographic portraits by Rachel Weil of the first eight women beneficiaries of a Black Sanctuary Garden. The portraits are taken of each woman in their gardens - embodying, as Leslie described it, their full and authentic joy and liberation. The whole evening unfolded in the heart of elegant, fruit, flower filled terraced backyard garden - one of the black sanctuary gardens to date. This conversation and all it was trying to express and hold space for was richly integrated with community, with an event specific shared music playlist, with laughter and food. Cultivating Place live is a special project of CP in the form of a limited series of CP interviews done with a curated group of gardeners across the US and recorded as audio and film (by the talented filmmaker Myriam Nicodemus of EM EN) throughout 2024 and 2025. These interviews are conducted in front of an audience of the gardeners’ community in order to support and recognize these gardeners’ accomplishments and contributions to the greater good as a result of their human impulse to Garden. These recorded CP Live experiences will be compiled into a film documentary rolling out in 2026/2027.  The mandate for me in these experiences and interviews is to not only give voice to (as the podcast always does), but actually make visible the many diverse connections animated by the gardening impulse everywhere. What this conversation makes visible to me, and I hope to all listeners, is that gardens are food, beauty, health, and divinity. Gardens are land use. Gardens are community centers, gardens are one form of public policy made manifest by the people. Gardens are authentic joy and liberation. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place.We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In celebration of Black History Month and looking… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2033693176 Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16962078/the-curiosity-driven-growing-life-of-australias-michael-mccoy 00:59:31 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Many things motivate and drive us to love gardening, plants, and nature. Australia’s Michael McCoy, also known as The Gardenist, is a Gardener, botanist, designer, teacher, and international garden tour guide. In his garden life, motivation always comes back to curiosity. He says: "Behind any answer are 10 more questions leading me forward in the garden, in life!” And, in his garden, "a lot of soul searching goes on." (As it should!) As The Gardenist, he considers his work a “hub for curious gardeners on a lifelong learning curve.” Here, Here! He joins us this week to share more and his enthusiastic curiosity might just spark yours! Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place.We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Many things motivate and drive us to love gardeni… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2027751556 Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16957530/the-power-of-public-green-spaces-nys-elizabeth-street-garden-with-joseph-reiver 00:53:39 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City’s Little Italy and SoHo neighborhoods is a one-acre public garden founded in 1991 by Allan Reiver, an artist and art dealer who passed in 2021. The lot on which the garden has grown these many years is owned by the city and managed by the non-profit community group, Elizabeth Street Garden. Joseph Reiver, Allan’s son, is the current director of the group.  Since 2013, Joseph, along with the Garden’s community, has been fighting to preserve and protect this special art and community-filled green space - one of few in this section of the city. In 2024, the Garden came under renewed threat of development, this time with increased vigor. In today’s conversation between guest host Ben Futa and Joseph Reiver, we learn how the inspiring story of how the Garden is fighting back - taking a stand against the powerful interests that seek to erase more than 30 years of community, growth, and beauty. This is something of a David and Goliath story: the modest community garden with surprising strength and agility going up against the many giants of New York City bureaucracy, lobbyists, developers. And while this is the story of one green space in one city, it serves as a call to action and a cautionary tale for all green spaces in all urban areas, where they are desperately needed, incredibly valuable to the quality of life for all, and easy to lose if we’re not paying attention. The Elizabeth Street Garden was featured in the 2023 book New York Green by acclaimed writer and photographer Ngoc Minh Ngo. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The Elizabeth Street Garden in New York City’s Li… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2021558433 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16951822/creativity-self-knowledge-and-artistic-ingenuity-passionflower-sue 01:05:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Creativity is one of those anchors-to-windward in unsettled and worrisome times. So is a hands-on, creative project – with bonus points for working with organic materials (natural fibers, clay, or – flowers)! Just in time for Valentine’s Day, and all the spring events cascading from there in the coming months, we’re joined this week by a woman who has artistry, creativity, and hands-on project inspiration in spades to share with us – Passionflower Sue is our guest – and her work might be the end of January inspiration and gift to yourself you didn’t know you needed – but I knew. Passionflower Sue, aka Sue McLeary, is an artist. Very specifically an artist with flowers, and she thinks you probably are too. Whether you’re a professional florist, a friend helping friends with flowers, a parent helping a child (and all their friends) with their corsages and boutonnieres, or a gardener looking to have fun with flowers for your table or your hair, you’re going to enjoy meeting Sue in conversation this week. With a long career in floristry, from designing to event management, to sustainable floristry advocacy and lots of teaching, Sue believes that floristry is an art form, and those of us engaged in it are artists! She “aims to offer immediately useful and relevant educational information that equips and empowers florists- allowing them to express their creativity and make what they crave to see.” She believes (and I am with her): “When we harness our creativity, we create more interesting, artful work that fills us and lifts us.” Her goal is to empower the floristry artist. And it's her “passion to help push floristry forward!” Having had the great pleasure of attending events and learning from Sue – it is my even greater pleasure to welcome her to Cultivating Place this week. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Creativity is one of those anchors-to-windward in… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2016532167 Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16945897/got-topiary-a-conversation-with-plantsmanartist-mike-gibson 00:54:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week, Guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with legendary topiary artist and star of the HGTV hit show Clipped, Mike ‘Gibby-Siz’ Gibson. Mike is based out of sunny Columbia, South Carolina, where he owns and operates his own business, “Gibson Works.” Abra and Mike talk about all things Topiary arts in their lively conversation! Diving into Mike’s time on HGTV’s hit show Clipped, how he built his company, and where his love of the plant arts germinated. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, Guest host Abra Lee is in conversation… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2010665071 Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16941406/the-collective-the-seed-farmer-dan-brisebois 01:05:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week – in the wind, rain, snow, and fires of early 2025 so far – it is good to be able to focus on SEEDs this week – seeds remind us so tangibly of our ability to get small, to slow down into a fortified dormancy of resilience, rest, and regrowth – and the possibilities inherent in all of those states. And this week, Cultivating Place does just that in conversation with Dan Brisebois, host of The Seed Farmer Podcast and author of the newly released The Seed Farmer: A Complete Guide to Growing, Using, and Selling Your Own Seed. Dan’s goal is to get everyone to grow, save, and know seeds. Based on Tourne-Sol Cooperative Farm outside of Montreal, Canada. Dan is an avid writer, thinker, and educator on seed growing, farming, and better farm management as a pathway to happier and more prosperous farms and farmers. In his experience, seed is integral to all of that. In our conversation Dan discusses his germination story in becoming a farmer, co-founding a cooperative farm, and becoming a seed farmer educator. He also shares the importance of what he calls the First Seed Mindset. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week – in the wind, rain, snow, and fires of… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/2005278187 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16937043/resolution-support-the-five-minute-gardener-nicole-burke-of-gardener 01:02:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up gardening, or to garden more, or in a new way? Well, this week’s Cultivating Place conversation is all about making time for gardening even for very busy people!  Nicole Burke, the energy force behind the online forum known as Gardenary, is with us to share more about the philosophy centered in her new book: The 5-Minute Gardener. It’s the genius of compounded interest – in the garden. And Nicole’s work focuses very specifically on organic, urban kitchen gardens as a way to improve our individual nutritional and physical lives - and as a way to upend the broken and addictive food system we exist within. Gardening is like any other activities or practices we value – relationships, reading, exercising, spirituality – it takes time and intention, but like all of these other valued endeavors, once the foundation is in place – it does not take all that long to see monumental results – in you and in your cultivation. A career-long garden designer, garden coach, and trainer of a network of garden consultants, Nicole Burke knows that establishing the habit of gardening is key and once it is set, you really only need 5 minutes at time to “nurture a year-round gardening habit,” which is deeply personal, meaningful, and FRUITFUL. The author of Kitchen Garden Revival and Leaves, Roots & Fruit, and previously a guest here on Cultivating Place, Nicole offers us great energy for the new seasons ahead. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Maybe your New Year’s resolution was to take up g… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1999339807 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16932593/happy-new-year-2025-prioritizing-rest-balance-and-joy-with-dandy-ram-farm 00:55:12 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no To ring in the New Year, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is in conversation with Bo Dennis, lead farmer and designer of Dandy Ram farm, located in rural Maine. Dandy Ram is an LGBTQ+ flower farm and floral design studio that sustainably grows and designs florals for weddings and ships evergreen and floral products nationally. Dandy Ram is committed to bringing joy to the world, without ever losing sight of what a just and sustainable relationship with the land and its people looks and feels like, as well as prioritizes. With the concept of new year and fresh starts in mind, the conversation explores prioritizing rest, balance, and joy, especially given a career that is so deeply tied to the seasons. Ben and Bo talk favorite plants, community building, and living authentically. Listen in - and From all of us at Cultivating Place: Happy 2025! May it be beautiful, biodiverse, and BRAVE! From my seat, the act of being still and the art of noticing are perfect intentions for any season. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. All images courtesy of Bo Dennis, Dandy Ram Farm. All rights reserved. To ring in the New Year, this week on Cultivating… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1994876523 Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16928196/winter-solstice-season-special-being-still-with-mary-jo-hoffman-best-of 01:22:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Happy Winter Solstice season! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest night and the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, which took place on December 21st, this week we revisit a conversation about getting STILL. We hold a moment of stillness to notice and honor our places, our selves, and our many companions in time and space. We revisit our conversation with Artist/Photographer Mary Jo Hoffman all about her more than a decade-long daily photographic practice and her new book: Still: The Art of Noticing. From my seat, the act of being still and the art of noticing are perfect intentions for any season. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Happy Winter Solstice season! In celebration of… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1989812943 Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16924747/the-king-of-camellias-sidney-frazier-of-middleton-place-charleston-sc 00:53:28 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week, CP Guest Host Abra Lee celebrates the season in conversation with the King of Camellias, Sidney Frazier. Sidney is based out of sunny Charleston, South Carolina, where he sits as Vice President of Horticulture at Middleton Place - a historic home and garden there is believed to be the oldest landscaped garden in America. Camellias were first planted in America near the end of the 18th century in the four corners of Henry Middleton's parterre, overlooking the Ashley River. Sidney shares with us the historic legacy of Camellias at Middleton Place and gives us some fun tips and tricks on how to care for these magnificent plants. Enjoy, and Happy Winter Solstice on the 21st.  Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, CP Guest Host Abra Lee celebrates the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1982338623 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16919503/arboreal-obsession-and-growing-the-world-the-tree-collectors-with-amy-stewart 01:01:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of things like pots, books, seeds, and - of course - plants. Some plant collecting gardeners collect flowers, shrubs, herbs or seeds. Others collect trees – and when writer, artist and curious human Amy Stewart, award winning author of Flower Confidential, Wicked Plants, and The Drunken Botanist, ran into more and more humans who collected trees in various ways – she started to collect stories about them. In her newest book, The Tree Collectors, Tales of Arboreal Obsession (out now from Random House), which she researched, wrote and illustrated, Amy shares much of more about these tree-collecting people, including what they can teach us about trees, and about humanity - from fascinating motivations to moving outcomes. Amy Stewart’s with us this week on Cultivating Place - join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Many gardeners are also collectors. Collectors of… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1974644939 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16912083/the-garden-of-words-with-katie-elzer-peters 00:54:56 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week, Cultivating Place’s guest host, Ben Futa, is in conversation with Katie Elzer-Peters, owner and founder of The Garden of Words, a digital marketing agency for the green industry. Katie is a lifelong plant lover, storyteller, communicator, and artist. An early love for museums and public gardens led Katie to discover what has today become her mission: empowering more plant-based businesses to thrive so that more people can discover the joy of gardening. As they write, the team at The Garden of Words used to grow only plants. Now, they still grow plants, but they also grow businesses. The conversation centers around reclaiming joy, finding balance, and changing direction. On the cusp of this winter season of rest, rejuvenation, and unpacking, this feels like a timely moment to consider what we want to bring forward, and what we want to leave behind, as we head in to a new season of abundance and growth and learning in the next few months. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, Cultivating Place’s guest host, Ben Fu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1969319495 Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16901276/longwood-reimagined-with-horticultural-leader-paul-redman 00:53:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 conversation with one of North America’s public garden leaders, Paul Redman. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Longwood Gardens for the last 16 years, Paul has implemented institutional and strategic reforms that have positioned the Gardens as a premier horticultural, cultural, and educational institution of the 21st Century while respecting the values of its founder, Pierre S. du Pont. The result has been nothing short of astounding with overall attendance doubling to almost 1.54 million visitors per year; an incredible climb in membership support from 17,000 to 78,000 households; and earned income has almost tripled – all in the last decade. Longwood Gardens is now North America's most visited paid public garden and the most visited paid cultural attraction in Philadelphia. In their conversation, Abra and Paul explore ideas of leadership, envisioning public gardens for the future, and fearlessness. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, when many in the US have time off with… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1963959571 Thu, 21 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16893327/all-flourishing-is-mutual-robin-wall-kimmerer-best-of 00:56:33 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 and culture tender, MacArthur Genius Grant award winner, mother, and all around wonderful human. She is also a gardener. Her book, Braiding Sweetgrass (Milkweed Editions) is something of a philosophical north star for many of us, and this week Dr. Kimmerer's newest book The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World is out from Scribner press. As always with Robin's work, The Serviceberry is perhaps exactly what we collectively need at this exact moment. Its dedication reminds us that ALL FLOURISHING IS MUTUAL. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of the season of gratitude, festivities,… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1958463063 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16886564/exploring-the-frontiers-of-garden-design-with-the-new-perennialist-tony-spencer-of-ontario-ca 01:00:56 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 inspiring plants person. Tony Spencer is the plantsman cultivator behind the Canadian-based endeavor, which for the last decade has been known as The New Perennialist. Under this name, Tony is a writer, a digital content creator, and an ecologically minded, biodiversity-replenishing planting designer self-described as "exploring the frontiers of naturalistic planting and garden design.” An inspired rooftop garden of his was awarded top honors by the Perennial Plant Association earlier this year. Listen in for some good plant medicine! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1952311887 Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16879039/somewhere-thats-green-with-plantsman-john-kish 00:55:07 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 owner of Somewhere That’s Green, an indoor plant shop and home of the Greenhouse Cabaret Theatre. Per John’s vision, his work and life are a combination plant shop, performance venue, and community center. As part of the Cabaret, John is also the resident Drag Queen, also known as "Fertile Liza." In their conversation, Ben and John explore John’s lifelong love for plants, art, and expression and how these have combined over time to create a place like no other. John is a dynamic and compassionate community leader and business owner who is actively working to cultivate a community he is proud to live in while also creating opportunities for others to thrive - embodying a new business mindset that perhaps has more in common with ecology than capitalism. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Fu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1946500455 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:02:52 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16871770/all-hallows-evesamhain-our-wildest-dreams-with-jen-williams-of-wild-dreams-farm-seed 01:02:40 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Jen Williams, being a seed farmer situated within a small island community was not always the dream. The dream to effect meaningful change in the world around her, started out for Jen in a realm all to prominent for most of us right now – electoral politics and the largest human structures of power in our world. But over time, disappointments, reality check disenchantments and more importantly, surprising enchantments, Jen's desire to change the world composted and transformed itself into her current life in the soil, with the plants and their seeds, in community, on the land. Now her wildest dreams effect powerful and beautiful change in the world through her - and our - collective relationships to plants, food, beauty, and place. I had the great joy of visiting Wild Dreams Farm & Seed this past summer, and I am so pleased to welcome Jen Williams to Cultivating Place this week on the seasonal harvest-to-winter transition, life-and-death-and-life-again-cycle celebration day of All Hallows Eve/Samhain. Because like the seasons, and the past, present, and future realms, and our gardens - our wildest dreams are the stuff of transformation. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Sometimes our dreams didn’t start out as our drea… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1941188839 Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:27:51 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16864488/the-poetic-garden-legacy-of-the-harlem-renaissances-effie-lee-newsome 01:03:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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. This week, CP Guest Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Reverend Jerri Mitchell-Lee. They enjoy a deep dive into the history of Effie Lee Newsome, another highly respected writer - and gardener - of the Harlem Renaissance. Reverend Mitchell-Lee shares more about this undersung American literary and garden figure from her unique familial perspective: Effie is her beloved great aunt. Effie Lee Newsome was a quintessential multi-hyphenate: she was an artist, nature writer, gardener, author, naturalist, birder, and favorite poet of the Harlem Renaissance elite. Through her groundbreaking children’s book, Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors (The Associated Publishers, 1940), she became a powerful piece in the puzzle of not only the Harlem Renaissance but also American garden history. In June of 2022, a class of Landscape Architecture Students from Auburn University used the poetry and plants of Effie Lee Newsome as their inspiration for an award-winning display garden at the Philadelphia Flower Show. Reverend Mitchell-Lee is an accomplished writer, author, and businesswoman. She has a passion for serving and continues to do so as a health educator, mental health counselor, and workshop trainer. She received her education at Sterling College, University of Kansas, Rutgers University of Medicine and Dentistry, Howard School of Theology, and Newark School of Theology. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and W. EB Du… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1936795067 Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:22:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16857400/cp-10-17-2024-web 01:13:50 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 and places making up New Jersey and its wilds—whether scrappy and unlikely roadside verges or extant majestic old-growth forests.   Jared Rosenbaum and his wife Rachel Mackow own and operate New Jersey’s Wild Ridge Plants, an all-native, all-natural, all-nursery-propagated endeavor in Alpha, New Jersey.  Jared is also the face and voice behind the Wild Plant Culture Podcast, and, along with documentary filmmaker Jared Flesher, Jared Rosenbaum is the host of the Rooted Series of Wild Plant videos. A certified ecological restoration practitioner and author of Wild Plant Culture, A Guide to Restoring Native Edible and Medicinal Plant Communities, Jared has an abiding curiosity about the intersection of ecology and culture. From his deeply rooted place there in New Jersey – I am so pleased to welcome Jared to Cultivating Place this week – join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The wilds of New Jersey might sound like a humoro… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1932601328 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:39:08 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16839418/live-with-golden-state-linen 01:04:36 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 are speaking. I am so thrilled to kick the airing of this series off on my own home ground in Northern California - back in conversation with Sandy Fisher and Durl Van Alstyne of Golden State Linen, previously known as Chico Flax. A regenerative fiber project based in California’s North State, Golden State Linen is regenerative fiber farming as a part of the Fibershed Network – and as such, they’re growing biodiversity, community, economy, and linen. Now, that is a beautiful fabric of life. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, we’re so excited to air the first list… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1928291948 Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:21:04 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16832781/kiss-my-asters-aster-gardens-with-amanda-thomsen 00:53:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 sustainably (but without a load of effort and twice the fun!). Amanda has been a professional horticulturist, landscape designer, and project manager for the past twenty-plus years. Her focus is bringing rule-breaking fun, a little kitsch, and a lot of humor into an industry that is often thought of as stodgy and full of rules. Amanda speaks and gives classes at events of all sizes throughout the United States. Many of you will remember Cultivating Place's previous conversation with Amanda Thomsen back in the spring of 2019 about her latest book, “Backyard Adventure: Get Messy, Get Wet, Build Cool Things, and Have Tons of Fun.”  In 2022, she opened a plant shop in the small, midwestern town and Chicago suburb of Lemont, IL. Today, Amanda is back to share with us her journey to becoming a business owner, building community, and growing more than just plants. Their motto: "Practical, fun, imperfect gardens for everyone!" It’s a fun, funny, heartbreaking, uplifting, and very candid conversation about the business of Cultivating Place, and how small plant businesses can be integral to Cultivating Place well and in community. IN ADDITION, this is the first CP episode featuring one of our two new regular guest hosts: Ben Futa of Botany, a growing plant-based endeavor in South Bend, Indiana. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Amanda Thomsen is a horticulturist, garden design… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1924252520 Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:45:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16822998/the-field-guides-among-us-dr-alan-weakley-director-unc-chapel-hill-herbarium 01:02:55 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Chapel Hill Herbarium, which since 2000 has been part of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Throughout his career, from his PhD work to his professorial and director duties and community engagement work, Dr. Weakley’s focus has remained on the rich biodiversity of plants and plant community systems of the Southeast. In his experience, this is one clear way to work toward conserving biodiversity writ large. An exhibit Dr. Weakley and the Herbarium helped to create, Saving our Savannahs, Stories of the Longleaf Pine, will be on display at the North Carolina Botanical Garden through December 2024. In our conversation, Alan describes the ongoing and ever-increasing importance of herbaria and the expansive collaborative relationship possible between the UNC-Chapel Hill Herbarium and North Carolina Botanical Garden now that they are fully integrated. One example of that is this new exhibit designed to engage and educate the public about this beloved ecosystem of the Southeast.  As he poignantly notes: “At a time of a biodiversity crisis and the sixth great extinction, herbaria are really more important than ever. And provide more critical resource than ever before... We can only move forward with conserving the biodiversity of our rich region, if we know what that biodiversity it, if we know where it is, if we know how to manage it. Ultimately we’ll end up conserving biodiversity only if the people want to, only if we care about it." In listening to the scope of Dr. Weakley’s work and recalling his early reference to his well-loved and well used book-form Peterson Field Guides as a younger person, it occurs to me that the legacy of his work (and others like him) is much like a trusted field guide we carry with us to know more about exactly where we are. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Dr. Alan Weakley is a career-long botanist and co… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1919189156 Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:00:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16814447/pre-autumnal-equinox-celebration-with-erin-benzakein-of-floret-floret-originals 01:05:39 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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. Her innovative and dedicated seed research and breeding work of the past almost decade, however, is whole new lens through which to appreciate her work. Back in 2017, when I first interviewed Erin for the program & for The Earth in Her Hands, she was already a tireless advocate for local flowers, and for supporting more flower farmers and local-flower florists in our everyday lives here in the US. Through her on-farm and subsequently online flower farming Floret Workshops, for more than a decade, she has been renowned for encouraging and training eager new flower-farmer-florists in order to transform the cut flower industry from the multi-billion dollar large-corporate-owned international import (with little ecological or economic oversight) behemoth it had become, back into the more lovely, and loving, organic, locally-based circular and community oriented economy she envisioned it could be – and should be. Floret - once a flower farm and training center – is now more fully (and perhaps even more beautifully) described as “a family-owned flower farm and seed company specializing in breeding new cut flower varieties for gardeners, farmers & designers.” They add: “ Our thriving research & education farm is dedicated to giving flower lovers the tools & information they need to grow the gardens of their dreams.” In honor of the Autumnal Equinox, and its seeds of the next season feeling - I am so pleased to once again welcome Erin to Cultivating Place – just as Floret's free seed saving mini-course launches on their website. Erin shares much more about this newest heart of Floret's growing work. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Erin Benzakein of Floret Flower Farm needs little… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1915458215 Thu, 12 Sep 2024 17:45:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16807207/something-in-the-woods-loves-you-with-jarod-k-anderson 00:55:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 the woods near his home. In the opening pages of his new book, Something in the Woods Loves You, he describes the transformative moment of meeting this “poem of ancient slowness” as a “bridge to when nature was family.” Jarod is the poet and nature enthusiast behind the popular scripted fiction podcast The CryptoNaturalist - about real love for imaginary nature. In Something in the Woods Loves You (out this week from Hachette), Jarod poignantly shares how real nature, and its lessons as to our human place within it, was one of his primary allies along his mental health journey, helping to bring him home to himself. Jarod joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about his love of nature, his garden life, and his thoughts on how an improved relationship with nature is key to everyone’s health (mental and physical), including the health of the planet we live on and her nature. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. One day in his mid-adulthood, at a particularly l… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1910953979 Thu, 05 Sep 2024 17:00:49 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16794075/gardens-in-spaces-of-incarceration-with-cultural-geographer-dr-elizabeth-lara 01:23:04 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 clearer eyes, the great diversity of ways in which the word Garden is used. We’re in conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Lara, a cultural geographer and Garden Historian who is looking at the role and uses of gardens in spaces of incarceration—historic and contemporary—and what this might teach us as gardeners and as a society as we look forward and back. Dr. Lara earned her doctorate through extensive research at Mission Santa Barbara, the Gardens of Alcatraz, and Manzanar National Historic Site. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, in honor of Labor Day just passed, we … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1906500626 Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:16:55 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16787369/best-of-conversation-with-gwendolyn-wallace-author-joy-takes-root 00:56:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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, 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 published this year) are works grounded in the human impulse to garden. In words, stories, and images these additions to the world of children’s literature help to grow us all. Using her own history and experience with gardens and gardening, Gwendolyn’s stories remind us (no matter our age) that our gardens raise and tend to us as much as we raise and tend to them! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. At this back-to-school, change-of-seasons moment,… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1902091383 Thu, 22 Aug 2024 17:50:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16779983/thoughtful-alchemy-sustainable-floristry-shane-connolly 00:54:44 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 conversation with the UK’s Shane Connolly might be just the thing. ENJOY! As we tend toward summer’s end, with end of summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the planning, we turn this week to floristry and how and where it intersects with sustainability – and as our guest today shares, with thoughtfulness. British floral designer Shane Connolly is well-known for his world-class floristry and floral design, which gracing several weddings within the British Royal Family and the recent coronation of King Charles. While his floral design is known for this kind of high-profile event, Shane is also known as one of the preeminent ambassadors for a more sustainable, organic, local, seasonal, and low-waste floral design and floral supply industry.  Cultivating Place now has a donate button! Thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, A BEST OF conversation. In this long, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1897763574 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:25:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16772151/back-to-school-with-plants-sean-doherty-vp-of-education-missouri-botanical-garden 00:59:22 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 being on prominent display. As you and I know, one of the best classrooms available to us all is the outdoors – from the wildlands of fields, woods, and waysides around us to more formal state and national parks and monuments, our own gardens, and very specifically, our many public gardens. Being outdoors is a great classroom, and plants are among our best teachers. Joining me this week to explore all of this and more is Sean Doherty, a gardener, a plant lover, a 25-year-career public educator: in the classroom, as a principal, and for six years as a St. Louis School’s district superintendent. Sean is now the Vice President of Education at the Missouri Botanical Garden in downtown St. Louis. From school groups to mindfulness walks, botanical art, and identification classes to therapeutic horticulture, from seed banking to historic herbarium collections, this botanic garden in St. Louis continues to expand how they and we think about the phenomenal educational capacity and imperative of plants and their conservation. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! Thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It’s back to school time – you can tell by the ad… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1892456268 Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:14:50 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16766338/welcome-to-the-shrub-club-shrouded-in-light-with-kevin-philips-williams 01:24:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 really show you what your garden and plants are made of (for better or worse) after months of them producing and growing under long hours of sun, high heat, and either humidity or drought. Or smoke. It’s also the season when many of our most durable and prismatic shrubs are showing off to great advantage in rounded forms, seed, fruit, and foliage colors, certainly in our wildlands. And possibly in our gardens? This is where Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi of the Denver Botanic Gardens come in. Their new book Shrouded in Light: Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands celebrates the great diversity, incredible beauty, and many gifts and lessons that the wild shrublands of our world have to offer our gardens and cultivated landscapes—environmentally and aesthetically—no matter where you garden. I want to echo Kevin and Michael’s email greeting when I invited them to be guests on Cultivating Place: Welcome to the Shrub Club! Enjoy. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Late July, August, and September (the dog days of… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1886795118 Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:10:47 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16759281/the-botanical-journey-lexicon-of-a-caring-plantsperson-with-tim-johnson-native-plant-trust 01:09:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Place a few years back as Executive Director for The Botanic Garden of Smith College. Tim is a spouse, a father, a life long learner and gardener, and since January of this year, he is the CEO of the Native Plant Trust. He is leading this oldest of U.S. plant conservation organizations into its 125th year working to conserve the great biodiversity of native plants in our world starting with their place in the U.S. Northeast. We caught up with him this week to learn more about Tim’s botanical journey and to discuss some of the Native Plant Trust’s past, present, and future vision. This vision is both on the ground, including their part in manifesting the new Northeast Native Seed Network as foundational to shifting the possibilities for great native plant supply for all landscapes, and increasingly, this vision is in policy at all levels of local and federal government.  NPT is collaborating with other plant conservation people around the country and world, and serve as a model for how good plant stewardship can literally grow our world better. Join us this week! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and ga… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1880781462 Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:15:23 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16753346/a-devotion-to-the-mysterium-of-place-as-an-antidote-to-existential-homesickness-with-janisse-ray 01:04:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 importance of what it means to be a capital G gardener in our world. A moving storyteller, speaker, and teacher, her book titles include Ecology of A Cracker Childhood (1999), a memoir; Wild Spectacle, Seeking Wonders in A World Beyond Humans (2021), a collection of essays; Red Lanterns (2021), a collection of poems; The Woods of Fannin County (2023), a novel, and many more. Her most recent title is based on her many years teaching writing, particularly place-based creative non-fiction: Craft & Current, A Manual for Magical Writing. Her acclaimed work has earned Janisse a Pushcart Prize, an American Book Award, the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature, a Nautilus Award, and the Arlene Eisenberg Award for Writing that Matters, among other well-deserved awards. For me, the most striking aspect of her talents (expressed ardently across genres) is the precision with which she lovingly gives voice to her own place, specifically her home ground of rural South Georgia’s uplands and coastal plains – and from there, the greater U.S. Southeast generally. The climatic and seasonal fluctuations and moods of the flora and fauna across mountains, and meadows, roadside verges and meandering creeks, Janisse is always documenting the lives and ground out of which places grow people. Her work Seed Underground, A Growing Revolution to Save Food (2012), was one of handful of books about the poetics and politics of seed and seed people in their places that inspired me in my writing of What We Sow, On the Personal, Ecological, and Cultural Significance of Seeds (2023) (along with the likes of Henry David Thoreau’s posthumously-published writings on seed dispersal, and Gary Nabhan’s Enduring Seed). While very much rooted in the Southeast, Janisse, like all great nature writers, gives voice to the importance of all places through her devotion to her singular place. Janisse’s teaching (online and at various universities across her career) focuses on encouraging the practice of place-based, heartfelt observation and writing as a way to grow better people, and therefore as a way to durably tend to all places. Janisse joins Cultivating Place this week to explore what it means to be devoted to place - in word, action, and spirit. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Working under the online name Trackless Wild, Jan… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1875023214 Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:40:50 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16747476/the-comfort-of-crows-a-backyard-year-with-margaret-renkl-best-of 01:03:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 when we feel overheated and overwhelmed, there is always some comfort, intelligence, and agency to be found among the flora and fauna of this generous planet. Many of you will remember our previous conversation with writer and gardener Margaret Renkl about one of her previous titles, “Late Migrations.” Her opinion pieces in The New York Times document the nature of our humanity weekly. I am so pleased to welcome her back this week to share more about her newest title – what is aptly described as “a literary and nature- based devotional” from one of our favorite backyard nature devotees. Join us, this week. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we revisit a favorite conversation from… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1869182178 Thu, 11 Jul 2024 18:28:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16741034/trees-are-bridges-to-the-sky-with-ecologist-poet-frederick-livingston 01:07:33 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no “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 are the words, questions, and motivations of poet and gardener, Frederick Livingston author of Trees are Bridges to the Sky a collection of essays and poems exploring the human/climate connection. I first met Frederick when I served as keynote speaker for the National Native Seed Conference earlier this year. The conference was kicked off by an address from Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, and another by Tracy Stone-Manning, Director of the Bureau of Land Management, both of whom preceded me on the first day.  The two days of events were punctuated throughout by readings from Frederick – the Conference poet. The fact that this conference of policy makers and advocates across such a range had a Conference Poet at all, says a lot. The fact that their chosen poet was Frederick, says even more.   Frederick has studied and practiced sustainable agriculture, experiential education, and peace building across the world and he joins us this week to share more. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. “Are Humans Parasites sowing our own hunger, or f… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1863148398 Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:03:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16734276/good-citizenship-good-stewardship-native-seedsearch-with-alexandra-zamecnik 01:01:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 looking to the desert Southwest in conversation with Alexandra Zamecnik, Executive Director of Native Seed/SEARCH. For more than four decades, Native Seeds/SEARCH (NS/S) has stewarded the seeds of the desert Southwest and Mexico. Founded in 1983 in response to the concern of farmers, gardeners, Indigenous community members, and conservationists about the devastating loss of seed diversity, NS/S today conserves more than 1,800 regional culturally and climatically significant seed varieties. The work is not only the preservation of these seeds for the future, but also for their distribution today, celebrating and in support of communities of this desert region who have stewarded these seeds for time far longer than memory. I met Alexandra and many of her team back in 2021, while researching What We Sow took me to the NS/S HQ in Tucson. I am so pleased to welcome her and share this growing work forward finally. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It’s the seedy time of summer. This week of the f… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1857993543 Thu, 27 Jun 2024 17:17:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16727425/national-pollinator-week-with-the-pollinator-posse-tora-rocha 01:13:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 celebrating National Pollinator Week with Tora Rocha of the Pollinator Posse based in Oakland, CA – sharing all things love of pollinators. Tora is a gardener and ecosystem steward, leader, and innovator in public gardening. Along with Terry Smith, a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) education specialist, in 2012 Tora co-founded the Pollinator Posse, an Oakland, CA-based organization developing and encouraging pollinator-friendly landscaping and fostering appreciation for local ecosystems through outreach, education, community science, and habitat creation. With eco-friendly landscape techniques at the heart of the work, they teach respect for the creatures which keep their place — and the world — blooming. Tora and the Pollinator Posse envision a day when life-enhancing, thought-inspiring green spaces will grace every corner of world. Tora joins Cultivating Place this week to share her garden-life, Pollinator Posse, journey story. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It’s full summer - for us and for the fauna of th… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1852937406 Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:35:39 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16720785/solstice-special-being-still-with-mary-jo-hoffman 01:19:45 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 hold a moment of stillness to notice and honor our places, our selves, and our many companions in time and space. We’re in conversation with Artist/Photographer Mary Jo Hoffman all about her more than a decade-long daily photographic practice and her new book: Still: The Art of Noticing. From my seat, the act of being still and the art of noticing are perfect intentions for any season. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Happy (almost) Summer Solstice! In celebration of… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1846652130 Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:13:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16713291/in-honor-of-juneteenth-the-anne-spencer-house-garden-with-shaun-spencer-hester 01:19:28 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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, this garden remains the only known fully restored historic garden of an African American in the U.S. We’re in conversation with Anne and Edward’s granddaughter, Shaun Spencer-Hester – who serves as the Executive Director and Curator of the House & Garden Museum. Shaun shares so much more information on the history, including new discoveries, the present, and the vibrant future of this important historic treasure of a garden and its gardeners. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of Juneteenth celebrations coming up, we… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1840053783 Thu, 06 Jun 2024 17:30:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16706680/a-gardens-purpose-with-felix-de-rosen 00:53:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 out to me in 2021 seeking advice on a new book project. His thinking and design resonated with me, and we have communicated back and forth ever since.  Now an ecological designer and artist, and graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard University, Félix’s design practice, Polycultura Studio, is based in Oakland, California, on traditional Ohlone territory. His now published book is: A Garden’s Purpose, which invites us to understand gardens as places where we build mutually beneficial relationships with the living world around us. Amen to that.  Félix joins me this week on Cultivating Place to share much more about his garden life journey, his philosophy, and the experience of considering the idea of "a Garden’s purpose” from a multitude of perspectives. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Cultivating our places with attention, intention,… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1833897822 Thu, 30 May 2024 17:16:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16698958/design-futurist-awards-with-sarah-beck-of-pacific-horticulture 00:52:38 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 priorities - top of mind. Such display and attention – and recognition well beyond the garden world – has the potential to move hearts and minds and, more importantly, to change minds and behaviors. We hope for the better. In 2023, Pacific Horticulture, a non-profit leader in horticultural thinking and gardening up and down the Pacific Region of the US since 1976 (and rooted back even earlier), jumped into the arena of how we encourage, celebrate, recognize, and even incentivize garden design when they launched their inaugural Design Futurist awards. These awards demonstrate the power of garden design to achieve climate resilience, steward biodiversity, and connect people with nature. In 2023, the first year of the awards, “visionary designers and regional plantspeople submitted designs illustrating that our gardens can conserve plants and wildlife, treat our water and soil as precious, and hold the wellbeing of people at their center.” The Design Futurist Awards celebrate “garden design that is easily replicable, modest in scale, or designed for intimate neighborhood community use” and I hope serve as a model for how to not just award but reward good garden design anywhere and everywhere. This week, Sarah Beck Pacific Horticulture’s Executive Director joins Cultivating Place to share more about the process and purpose of these awards – entries for which are being accepted now through July 26th, 2024. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. With the Chelsea Flower Show in the UK just compl… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1828707816 Thu, 23 May 2024 16:43:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16691886/milkwood-permaculture-living-handbook-with-milkwoods-kirsten-bradley 00:54:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Permaculture Living Handbook is another perfect resource for our summer garden (and life) plotting, planning, and planting, with an emphasis on garden-life-based habits for hope in a changing world. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re in conversa… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1823327385 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:00:22 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16684039/the-seed-detective-with-adam-alexander 00:53:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 and fruit bounty, this week Cultivating Place returns to our intermittent series on seeds in conversation with Adam Alexander, author of The Seed Detective, Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables. This conversation and gardening human go to show—once again—that all of life (and the histories of humans with their plants in their places) can be found in the garden if we’re looking. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Just in time for your continued planning, plottin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1818243207 Thu, 09 May 2024 17:00:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16677647/small-house-farm-beauty-learning-bevin-cohen 00:54:45 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 our seeds and learn about Mother Nature’s many wonders. We are avid seed savers, and amateur plant breeders. We believe that each seed is a connection to every grower that stewarded that variety before us – and every rower that comes after us.” Through his books, his educational workshops and lectures, and now through his podcast, Seeds and Weeds, Bevin shares his small-farm big-life heartfelt world view. In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are and what they are growing in this world, I am so pleased to be in conversation with Bevin this week. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. All photos courtesy of Bevin Cohen, Small House Farm. All rights reserved. Bevin Cohen and his wife Heather Marie co-founded… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1812778950 Thu, 02 May 2024 16:33:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16671654/a-year-full-of-flowers-in-pots-with-the-uks-sarah-raven 00:57:26 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 bright gardens and floral stars: Sarah Raven. Her newest book: A Year Full of Pots Container Flowers for All Seasons (Bloomsbury Press, 2024) notes that pots in the garden are like "bubbles in a glass of champagne. In the past 25 years, Sarah has been a leadership voice in beautiful and productive gardening through her trial and research garden at Perch Hill, her many books and in-person educational offerings, and now through her podcast: Grow, Cook, Eat, Arrange. What could be a better way to welcome May? Enjoy. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and see more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. To kick off May, looking forward to Mother’s Day,… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1809387975 Sat, 27 Apr 2024 22:04:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16666280/cp-ca-native-plant-week-cnps-rare-plant-program-aaron-simms 01:01:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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. Our celebratory action item here at Cultivating Place is being in conversation this week with Aaron Sims, Director of the Rare Plant Program for CNPS. 2024 year marks the 50th anniversary of the CNPS Rare Plant Inventory, tracking and analyzing rare plants and their status across the floristic province to help fight extinction (and subsequent biodiversity loss), to engage citizen scientists, including gardeners, across the state, and to inform land use decisions statewide. Along with the beauty, joy, and life sustaining qualities of our native plant flora whereever we might live and garden, that is all worth celebrating. Happy Native Plant (rare and common) Gardening to you - listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The third week of April is California Native Plan… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1807276722 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:00:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16664727/bumble-bee-atlas-projects-wleif-richardson-xerces-society-best-of 01:12:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 some good news: the Xerces Society recently kicked off their newest Bumble Bee Atlas project, this time in the US Midwest. With that in mind, please enjoy our conversation from 2023 with Leif Richardson, Conservation Biologist with the Xerces Society, sharing so much about conservation, about bumble bees, about the nation-wide Bumble Bee Atlas projects generally, and his spearheading of the California Bumble Bee Atlas. Following on from native plant week, this week we… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1798584004 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:32:53 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16647846/great-garden-friends-the-hummingbird-monitoring-network-dr-susan-wethington-best-of 00:53:12 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 week in our series of 5 episodes on our gardens as important habitat and we gardeners as important stewards of land and biodiversity, we check in on the state of things for the Hummingbird. Cultivating Place is joined in this by Dr. Susan Wethington, research scientist, Program Developer and Executive Director of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network, based in Arizona. "Hummingbirds are unique in that every culture that lives with hummingbirds has a positive interaction with hummingbirds and it seems to me that if we can maintain hummingbird diversity in this world - because we all love them - then we have a chance to maintain biodiversity in other species that are so critical in our functioning natural world. That if we can let one animal into our hearts - the others can follow." Dr. Susan Wethington, Executive Director, The Hummingbird Network The hummingbirds are among our smallest of birds, but our largest – and of course avian – pollinators. These little birds, many of which migrate vast distances, need to drink more than their body weight in nectar every day, and are voracious and effective insectivore. Having co-evolved with the native flora of the Americans – including with the vast diversity of salvias, penstemons, lobelia, agastache, manzanitas, honeysuckles and more – they love nothing more than beautiful flowering native or other nectar/pollen rich plants in our gardens to help them on their way. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Hummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creatu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1792818709 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:37:40 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16641689/seeding-circularity-orta-kitchen-garden-seed-pots-anne-fletcher 00:57:32 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 seed pots. These pots' material lives help eliminate plastic right from the start in your plants’ growing lives, seeding more circularity into our garden lives! They have a seed club, too….Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, with Spring and seeding season fully u… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1786625788 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:34:09 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16634290/rounding-out-womens-history-month-garden-wonderland-with-leslie-bennett 01:05:55 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 story of who we are, individually and communally. Leslie lives out her horticultural and cultural ethos in her landscape design work with Pine House Edible Gardens and Black Sanctuary Gardens, as well as in her writing and advocacy. Her newest book, Garden Wonderland, written in collaboration with Julie Chai and photographed by Rachel Weill, will be published on April 2nd from Ten Speed Press.  Garden Wonderland brings together all of Leslie’s wisdom, spirit, experience, and paradigm-shifting passions while also bringing together the power of women and gardens. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. To round out Women’s History Month in style, this… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1780893267 Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:00:39 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16627313/spring-equinox-special-with-owen-wormser-of-abound-design 00:55:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 give us all a forceful nudge to help us stay the path with the many millions of acres of the progress we have to go in this work to trade lifeless monoculture chemically dependent lawns for a happy healthy habitat. This work was given a beautiful boost in 2020 with the publication of Owen Wormser’s book Lawns into Meadows, Growing a Regenerative Landscape (updated second edition out now in paperback!) Owen is a gardener, designer, author and ecological gardening advocate working under the name of Abound Design, based in Western Massachusetts. In honor of the vernal equinox pulling us into the light, enjoy this conversation with Owen Wormser. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The Great Unlawning of America has been underway … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1773606996 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:02:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16619812/the-art-of-gardens 00:55:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 point. This week we are in conversation with an exemplary public garden, whose identity grows out of this pairing: the art of horticulture and the art of sculpture. The Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan is “proudly ranked as one of the top 45 most visited museums in the world” and their award winning gardens “showcase over 200 captivating sculptures,” inviting visitor to experience what they see as the “perfect blend of art and nature.” We’re joined this week by Steve LaWarre, the Vice President of Horticulture at Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park to share more. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The combining of sculpture and gardens dates back… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1768172784 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:53:17 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16605030/womens-history-month-the-queen-of-herbs-jekka-mcvicar 01:01:56 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 long and notable career has brought the gardened world the best the herbs of the world have to offer to our gardens, to our environments, to our kitchens, and to our souls. In recognition of her herbal research, plant breeding, garden designing, and advocacy around the many merits of all manner of herbs to the garden world these past 40 years, Jekka has been awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour in Horticulture by the Royal Horticultural Society and the Gardeners Media Guild Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as 62 RHS Gold Medals. At Jekka’s Herb Farm and Herbetum in South Gloucestershire, she displays her life’s collection of more than 600 culinary, medicinal, pollinator-supporting, and beautiful herbs. I was honored to profile Jekka in my 2020 book, The Earth In Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, as one of the women leaders in our horticultural world who have expanded and elevated the way we think and talk about gardening. Jekka’s newest book, 100 Herbs to Grow A Comprehensive Guide to the Best Culinary and Medicinal Herbs publishes from Quadrille Press in march of 2024. Savor! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Happy Women’s History Month! To kick Women’s His… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1761864762 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 05:20:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16597859/leap-day-special-gardening-can-be-murder-marta-mcdowell 01:02:28 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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, this would be a great scene for a murder mystery.” Writer and gardener Marta McDowell is with us this week for our Leap Day Special - sharing more about her newest title Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers, in which she delves into the literary history of mysteries and crime fiction being long inspired by life and death in the garden. It’s an oddly fun romp into the overlapping worlds of mystery and crime fiction with gardens and gardeners. Join us! All images courtesy of Marta McDowell, illustrations by Yolanda Fundora, all rights reserved. Most gardeners know the somewhat gruesome pleasur… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1755170325 Thu, 22 Feb 2024 17:32:46 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16588826/legends-of-the-leaf-with-jane-perrone-of-on-the-ledge-podcast 01:01:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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’re in conversation with Jane Perrone, host of the “On The Ledge” Podcast, and author of “Legends of the Leaf: Unearthing the secrets to help your plants thrive”. In this deep end of the winter season, when our indoor gardening might be holding us through till we can get back outside, Jane shares more about her many plant love motivations. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we lean into a particular aspect of our… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1748178150 Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:02:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16578836/the-african-american-cultural-heritage-action-fund-with-brent-leggs 00:54:55 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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, Senior Vice President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Executive Director of the Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, whose mission focuses on telling the full American story. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund holds a vision of preservation serving as a potential path for equity. The fund is actively working to preserve the landscapes and buildings of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Historic Black Churches, the Washington Rosenwald Schools, as well as the homes and gardens of cultural icons such as Madame C.J. Walker, musicians John and Alice Coltrane, singer/songwriter Nina Simone, and Harlem Renaissance poet and gardener Anne Spencer. The Action Fund is also partnering with community members in Akron, Ohio, on re-creating a public plaza space to preserve the historic activism of once-enslaved abolitionist and author Sojourner Truth, who delivered her “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in Akron in 1851. This is a very personal conversation but also a universal love story of the heritage and history held in our places and the importance of that fullness to all of us. Listen In! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1741418901 Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:00:31 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16565834/library-science-is-garden-life-science-staci-catron-jennie-oldfield 01:04:03 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 head south to the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center and their remarkable Cherokee Garden Library – named for the historic Cherokee rose, prevalent across the south. Staci Catron has been the Library’s Director since 2000, and Jennie Oldfield is the collection’s Senior Technical Librarian/Supervisory Archivist. The two join Cultivating Place this week to share so much more about the fertile ground of their work – enriching all of our garden lives. The three of us discuss the importance of horticultural and garden library collections for preserving the past and enlivening our present and future. As a result of their work in archiving, research, and exhibitions, this conversation continues our celebrations of Black History Month, and it will pair nicely with a warm cup of something on a cold afternoon. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and see many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1734080775 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:00:22 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16556640/in-honor-of-bhm-camille-dungy-on-soil-the-story-of-a-black-mothers-garden-best-of 01:22:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 color exploring the intersections of gender, race, art, environment, and culture. In honor of Black History Month, we revisit this best-of conversation with Camille from May of 2023. Just as her newest title, Soil, The Story of A Black Mother’s Garden was published by Simon & Schuster. Soil is a rich exploration into and celebration of ancestry and being an ancestor; about what it means to be human, about motherhood, writing, gardening, biodiversity, grief, beauty, joy, and above all, Soil is about the tenacious hope for better growth. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Camille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remar… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1727515689 Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:08:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16547975/seed-is-life-the-national-native-seed-conference-feb-7th-and-8th-w-institute-for-applied-ecology 01:04:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 the team at The Institute for Applied Ecology – literally ecology in action. Their mission is to conserve native species and their habitats through restoration, research, and education. They envision a world where all people and wildlands are healthy and interact positively, biological diversity flourishes, and environmental challenges are met with a social commitment to solving problems with scientific principles. And in many ways, this all comes back to an abundant and healthy seed supply. This brings us to the Institute’s Native Seed Network and their coordination of their upcoming National Native Seed Conference, being held virtually Feb 7th and 8th. The conference connects research, industry, land management, and restoration professionals, providing the premier opportunity to develop relationships and share information about the collection, research and development, production, and use of native plant materials. Given that gardeners are land managers in their own right, this is the kind of information that informs good garden decision-making for all of us. And I am excited to serve as the keynote speaker for the event. Alexis Larsen, Program Director for the Institute's Plant Materials Program, Morgan Franke, the Program Coordinator for the Plant Materials Program, and Tom Kaye, the Institute’s co-founder, Executive Director, and Senior Ecologist, join Cultivating Place this week to share so much more about the past, present, and future of this important work. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1721138889 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:39:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16539362/wormwrangling-the-science-practice-gap-updating-grassland-restoration-dr-justin-luong 00:57:34 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 as important as but different from other large ecoregion types such as forests or deserts, grasslands are even more vulnerable to pressure from human populations – for settling, planting, livestock, and development. Threats to natural grasslands, as well as the wildlife that live on them, include farming, overgrazing, invasive species, illegal hunting, and climate change. At the same time, one study found California's grasslands and rangelands could store more carbon than forests because they are less susceptible to wildfires and drought. Still, less than 10 percent—of the world's grassland is currently protected in large part due to a lack of understanding of their ecological role. Which is where Dr. Justin Luong comes in. Grassland ecosystems fill an ecological role as important as and different than our charismatic forests, our extreme deserts, and our coastal or chaparral scrub. And in fact, much of the general home garden lanscapes with their mix of perennial flowers, annual vegetables, and grasses, in many ways mimic grassland meadows. Ecologist and educator Dr. Justin Luong of Cal Poly Humboldt joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about his journey (including being a worm wrangler) in science, practice, and education focused on biodiversity and climate resiliency, most recently through grassland restoration ecology. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Did you know that grasslands account for between … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1714811607 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:53:46 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16531450/cp-01-11-2024-web 01:07:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 poetry, novels, and personal journals illuminating the landscape of the human heart and mind. She was also a lifelong and avid gardener. She spent the last 22 years of her life on the coast of Maine in a house and garden called Wild Knoll, now a part of the Surf Point Artist In Residence Program. Carly Glovinski is an artist working in a wide array of mediums that balance between craft, utility, and art.  She joins us today to tell the story of how she helped reimagine May Sarton’s former house site as a garden and to re-establish Sartons’s extant gardens using  Sarton’s well-known journal “The House by the Sea” as her guide. It's an inspiring story of how we all existentially garden with one another in so many ways, entwined across time and space, and how we garden the past, present, and future simultaneously. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we hear the magic… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1708405851 Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:58:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16519611/welcoming-whimsy-wonder-and-the-work-of-intimacy-esme-cabrera-naturalistartist-la_mamigami 01:02:28 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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" that are the native plants around her. Exploring their spirit, medicine, history and culture, mathematical, scientific, and sacred patterns with curiosity and deep observation is integral to Esme's California native plant origami designs.  Following her efforts to know these plants intimately enough to fold them provides us ALL with a portal to creatively reimagine our collective and growing ways forward. Ingenious, colorful, biodiverse, full of play, discovery, a community of sharing, and plant-and-place-centric, I cannot imagine a more powerful blessing to usher in the new year than this conversation. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Esme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a bo… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1701801159 Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:00:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16511919/hinking-like-healthy-habitats-radically-and-radially-with-sid-hill-ecological-land-artisan 00:56:49 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Cornwall-based ecological landscape designer Sid Hill, a land and ecological artisan who creates beautiful, abundant, and thoughtful places. Sid challenges himself, his clients, and the broader horticultural world to keep going and to go even further in rethinking and reimagining how horticulture is practiced and thought of in our world. A believer in the ability of intentional and well-thought-out design to help our gardens help the world in moderating so many of the challenges ahead, Sid asks us to think like the plant and animal communities, as well as the indigenous human communities that are, and have been, foundational to the uniqueness of our places. He asks us to think like healthy habitats and their dynamic patterns as we look to the future – as we grow the future. I think this plant-and-ecology-of-place-centric thinking is a perfect way to close out 2023 and herald in 2024. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. We opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place, focu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1695741081 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:00:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16504997/images-courtesy-of-collin-pine-illustrations-by-tiffany-everett-all-rights-reserved 00:55:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Everett, the detailed and specific artistry of the book adds a rich visual storyline to the already rich language-based narrative. Just in time for the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, The Garden Next Door, at its most philosophical, reminds us of the power of our gardens to support plant and animal life, human community, and pure delight - a delight that transcends age and the many distractions and misdirections of our time. This lovely addition to our children’s bookshelves also reminds us that ALL of our gardens are next door to someone, and in this way, is an addition to our own existential understanding of the power of gardens and gardeners. Happy Happy Solstice from Cultivating Place! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Collin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an ed… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1690471941 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:39:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16495874/uprooting-finding-and-growing-our-way-home-with-marchelle-farrell 00:55:50 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 training, Marchelle’s work unflinchingly surveys her own journey to life in an English country garden and along the way unearths the hard edges but also the richness of the contributions of the African diaspora to our modern gardening world—contributions made willingly and unwillingly, seen, and unseen, acknowledged and unacknowledged. Known as Afroliage online, Marchelle’s writing, a gardening story shared, and home deeply rooted are healing and re-integrating, in that way in which our gardens can be all of our very best health care. Uprooting is both powerfully personal and simultaneously universal. Listen in this week! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcasts. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Caribbean-born British-based writer and Gardener … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1684873149 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:00:30 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16486383/love-nature-magic-with-maria-rodale 00:55:24 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 family. Maria is a self-described "explorer in search of the mysteries of the universe." Author, artist, activist, and recovering CEO, she serves on the board of the Rodale Institute and is also a former board co-chair. Throughout her career, she has advocated for the potential of organic regenerative farming to heal the damage wrought by pesticides and industrial agricultural practices. She is the author of Organic Manifesto and Scratch and is a children’s book author under the pseudonym: Mrs. Peanuckle. Maria is a mother, grandmother, and crazy gardener who lives in Pennsylvania, right near where she was born. This week we take a deep dive into the heart of the lessons of all of our gardens through the lens of Maria’s garden journey, documented in her newest book Love Nature Magic: Shamanic Journey’s Into the Heart of My Garden, out now from Chelsea Green Books. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1678504605 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 17:39:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16477537/super-bloom-with-australian-plantswoman-jac-semmler 00:58:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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. As our Northern Hemisphere gardens and landscapes settle into whatever their annual dormancy and winter rest might be, we head to the Southern Hemisphere in conversation with Jac Semmler. Her philosophy (of more flowering plants, everywhere, all the time) behind her work Super Bloom gives us so much to dream about in our coming deep winter sleeps. In this tiny lull between the mostly happy hubbub of the winter holidays, sweet flowery dreams! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Jac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disc… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1672904232 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 18:01:17 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16466609/cp-11-23-2023-web 01:01:53 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 could all use a dose of such direction and grounding. With that in mind, please enjoy this BEST OF conversation with Indigenous seed keeper and teacher, Rowen White, and writer and activist Gavin Van Horn. They are voices of reason, relationship, and responsibility in our times. As a gardener and a human in this exact time on our planet, and in this specific season of the year - a season of communal gathering and thankfulness at the tail end of the growing season in the Northern Hemisphere, this week we celebrate Family, Kin, & Kinship. We are joined in this conversational celebration by Gavin Van Horn and Rowen White sharing with us about a new multi-volume collection of written voices entitled "Kinship Belonging in a World of Relations" out now from the Center for Humans and Nature, based in Chicago.  Gavin is the creative and executive director for the Center for Humans and Nature and served as co-editor on the Kinship series with Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Hausdoerffer. Rowen is a seed keeper, a mother, and a farmer from the Mohawk community. She is the educational director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds an innovative Indigenous seed bank and land-based educational organization located in Nevada city, California. A passionate advocate for Indigenous seed and food sovereignty, Rowen is the founder of the Indigenous Seedkeepers Network and her essay "Sky Woman’s Garden" appears in Partners the third volume of the five-volume Kinship series.  Just like all kinds of gardens, these voices raised together in this uplifting series is all about growing together in this world. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our world at this time, I give thanks for the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1666191195 Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:00:23 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16457745/grow-with-riz-reyes-award-winning-plantsman-and-author-of-grow-a-family-guide-to-plants 01:33:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 started his new role in May 2022. His duties include overseeing garden staff, volunteers, organizing garden events/plant sales, teaching lectures/workshops, and assists in maintaining and redesigning prominent sections of the gardens. From his early inspirations as a child in the Philippines to his international horticultural studies, to his rich garden career in iconic horticultural landscapes across the Pacific Northwest, to his family-oriented picture book “GROW a Family Guide to Plants and How to Grow Them” (2022) – Riz’s stories and his inherent joy in living with plants will inspire you to grow more, too. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we’re in conversation with award-winnin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1661042187 Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:38:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16438969/joy-takes-root-a-conversation-with-author-gwendolyn-wallace 00:57:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 published this year) are works grounded in the human impulse to garden. In words, stories, and images these additions to the world of children’s literature help to grow us all. Using her own history and experience with gardens and gardening, Gwendolyn’s stories remind us (no matter our age) that our gardens raise and tend to us as much as we raise and tend to them! As we lean into the grateful season of November and December - Enjoy. All images courtesy of Gwendolyn Wallace, all rights reserved. It might be just the inspiration we need to get us all planting! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Gwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a student, a tea… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1655129403 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 17:00:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16423126/growing-home-humble-roots-the-pacific-northwest-native-plant-primer 01:05:28 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 native plants in most of our areas as long as the ground is workable. With that in mind, this week we’re joined by two native plant enthusiasts and nursery people – Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt of Humble Roots Nursery in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. Humble Roots is a native plant nursery acclaimed for its efforts in sustainability and promoting native plant passion, knowledge, and ethics across the wider ecoregions of the Pacific Northwest. After years at this work, Kristin and Drew, as he is known, have recently shared a great deal of their knowledge even more widely with the recently published The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer, 225 plants for an Earth Friendly Garden, out now from Timber Press. It might be just the inspiration we need to get us all planting! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we turn the calendar to November and the seaso… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1649977293 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 17:00:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16411799/flora-forage-with-blue-ridge-botanics-nina-veteto 00:56:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 brand new Flora and Forage Podcast (and offshoot of her beloved Secrets of the Wildflowers Video series on social media). Nina is based in North Carolina, and she joins us this week to share more about her history, her artistry, and her passion and voice for plants – from their artistic renderings to their secret stories and other wonders of our natural world. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we continue our artistic autumnal theme… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1644657408 Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:00:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16402719/the-comfort-of-crows-a-backyard-year-with-margaret-renkl 01:04:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 book: “The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year.” Many of you will remember our previous conversation with writer and gardener Margaret Renkl about one of her previous titles, “Late Migrations.” Her opinion pieces in The New York Times document the nature of our humanity weekly. I am so pleased to welcome her back this week to share more about her newest title – what is aptly described as “a literary and nature-based devotional” from one of our favorite backyard nature devotees. Join us, this week. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week in this season of endings and beginning… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1638066933 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:00:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16392450/star-gazing-yard-sharing-imagination-community-activating-olly-costello-drawing-us-together 00:55:56 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 forms and interconnections made visible - from the life of the soil to the lives and forms of plants and humans right on up to the myriad stars in our galaxy-night skies - Olly draws us all together. Olly is a white non-binary queer illustrator, food grower, honey bee tender, and a seeker of mysticism. Through their creative work – which includes both visual arts and community building and reimagining - Olly explores themes of interconnectedness, cosmology, reciprocity, queer ecology, biomimicry, and emergence. They are perennially interested in cultivating our radical imaginations to help us all shape our emergent new world – in and out of the garden. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we return to the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1633229517 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:00:38 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16381641/who-is-joe-gardener-a-conversation-with-joe-lampl 01:11:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week, we enjoy a conversation with a gardener and garden guru well- known and loved: Joe Lamp’l of the famed and award-winning Growing a Greener World on PBS and The ‘joe gardener’ Show podcast. Growing a Greener World is not just a show name but a nearly life-long mission for Joe. While he is known for his organic vegetable gardening knowledge and advocacy, Joe likewise loves the wilder side of his place in the world and ecological function is a top priority along with his human garden community. And at the end of the day, Joe is a lot like all of us: he just loves playing in the dirt with his plant friends. In our ongoing exploration into who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, Joe Lamp’l joins Cultivating Place to share more about his garden life – and how he enhances ours—the rest of us “joe gardeners.” Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, we enjoy a conversation with a gardene… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1627899819 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:05:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16370875/the-miraculum-and-cosmosis-with-artist-libby-ellis-92823-mixdown 00:53:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we move toward October, the first a few intermittent episodes reminding us of the artistry behind our plant and garden love, the artistry underpinning mother nature herself. This week we’re in conversation with artist Libby Ellis – photographer who sees the fullness of creation in the many faces of the flowers who delight us. Libby Ellis is a fine art photographer based on the island now known as Martha’s Vineyard homeland of the Wampanoag people and nation who named the beautiful island Noepe. Monochromoatic and often single focused Ellis’ work lands in my heart in a similar way as a Georgia O’Keeffe painting or a Dorothea Lange portrait – all of them capturing the essence of one subject while contributing insight into the workings of life itself – nature, plus the workings of humanity and its perceptions. In the case of Libby Ellis – the focal point include everyday flowers from Cosmos to musk roses, hibiscus to magnolia. And her work has been featured from various locations on Martha’s Vineyard including the Featherstone Center for the Arts and the Carnegie Museum to London’s Saatchi Gallery for the Royal Horticultural Society’s 2022 Botanical Art and Photography exhibit, from the Harvard Divinity School to large scale projection against a high rise building in Denver, CO. Libby joins us from her studio in Edgartown MA (on the to share more about her photographic eye and gardener’s heart. As we move toward October, the first a few interm… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1627783917 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:40:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16369914/the-marginalian-with-maria-popova-best-of 01:01:22 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week, a Best OF episode revisiting our conversation with Maria Popova, the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings). For the past 16 years, The Marginalia has been a daily—perhaps even hourly—exploration of wonder in our world as seen through the lenses of how we as humans express ourselves in our own creativity, our intellectual curiosity, our sadnesses and griefs, and in our greatest loves and joys.  Gardening and gardeners are recurrently among the human endeavors Maria has explored these many years. This is a light of a conversation in the best spirit of quantum gardening as we tend toward the fullness of Autumn’s splendor. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, a Best OF episode revisiting our conve… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1621351848 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:05:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16359983/what-we-sow-with-guest-host-dave-schlom-interviewing-jennifer-jewell 00:54:33 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On this special edition of the show, our guest will be Cultivating Place’s wonderful host, Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer has a new book out and it’s very special.  A very intimate and, at the same time, global take on the natural and social science aspects of one of the most fundamental things to life on Earth – seeds. Jennifer’s book is titled What We Sow: On The Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds.  It’s an exploration of the lives of plants and people through the cycle of a botanical year viewed through the fundamental lens of seeds. With our guest host, Dave Schlom of NSPR’s Blue Dot program and podcast, we’ll hear about the good and the bad when it comes to the modern world of seeds - from those produced by natural plants battling to adapt to climate change to those produced by human hands. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. On this special edition of the show, our guest wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1616544117 Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:43:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16349147/the-high-line-of-nyc-with-director-of-horticulture-richard-hayden 01:05:40 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week, our second episode on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s inaugural Garden Futures Summit being held at the New York Botanical Garden on Sept. 29th and at gardens across the city on Saturday, Sept. 30th. This week, we head to The High Line – a 1.45 elevated linear garden - one of New York City’s green space highlights. We’re in conversation with Richard Hayden, Director of Horticulture at The High Line since 2022. A horticulture and public garden enthusiast, Richard is all about connecting people with the power of plants. Join us! All photos courtesy of Richard Hayden and The Friends of The High Line, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. The self-seeded wild high line prior to revitalization and curation demonstrates the biodiversity of flora and fauna possible on this elevated railway line. Top image by Joel Sternfeld. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, our second episode on gardens and gree… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1610204028 Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:00:29 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16338574/new-york-green-with-photographer-author-ngoc-minh-ngo 01:01:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no To kick off September, we head to the Big Apple, where at the end of the month, the Garden Conservancy is holding its inaugural Garden Futures Summit on September 29th and 30th. In preparation, we thought we’d dedicate two episodes to checking in on some garden lives in the city. This week we’re in conversation with photographer, artist, author, and gardener Ngoc Minh Ngo, sharing more about her newest work, “New York Green,” profiling in word and uplifting photography more than 40 exceptional parks and gardens of the five boroughs that comprise New York City. “From tiny corner lots to acres of old-growth forests, New York is filled with a wealth of beautiful green spaces–if you know where to look,” and Ngoc Minh Ngo’s book shows us just where to look. Ngoc was a previous guest on Cultivating Place in 2018, and I am so pleased to welcome her back. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. To kick off September, we head to the Big Apple, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1605290703 Thu, 31 Aug 2023 17:00:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16327250/dancing-in-the-dragons-jaw-design-studio-course-utenn-knoxville 01:00:01 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Chad Manley is a fellow and lecturer in the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Nora Jacobs and Carlos Velasco were two of the Masters of Landscape Architecture students in Chad’s spring 2023 Landscape Architecture Design Studio entitled Dancing the Dragon’s Jaw – a deeply imagined course of study designed by Chad “inviting students on a smokey dance of space-making along a continuum of Northern and Central California landscapes," and that resulted in an "accretive semester’s long individual-collective physical and digital collage." As a culmination of the students' learning and creative term, they traveled as a group to California to “dance through its communities, meadows, and mountains, meet with fire keepers; land managers; scientists; artists; and designers, situating the journey within both the urgencies and poetic potentials of a land-on-fire.” The studio-developed ‘pyro-loci,’ worked to consider and “re-imagine an empathetic landscape architecture born of regenerative fire" – and regenerative, inclusive, and expansive learning mindsets. They learned from books, from other designers and design history, from the drawing board, but they also learned on and from the land and people for whom their design might be of greatest benefit. In our second week of back-to-school-themed episodes devoted to plant education in school and in life, the three join Cultivating Place this week to share more. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Chad Manley is a fellow and lecturer in the Schoo… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1599922209 Thu, 24 Aug 2023 17:00:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16312148/miami-of-ohios-institute-for-environment-sustainability-masters-of-environment-program 01:01:50 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Can you believe it is already back-to-school season? This week, we look at what back to school means for our lifelong learning with plants. This week, we’re in conversation with members of the Miami University of Ohio engaged with Miami’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability Masters of Environment program and Institute for Food Farm to learn more about just a few of the ways plant and horticultural information in integrated into the daily life of Miami’s curriculum. In September of last year, I had the pleasure and privilege of visiting with students, faculty, and horticultural facilities at Miami of Ohio, and it impressed upon me even more urgently the importance of supporting and demanding strong horticultural and ecological curricula in our educational systems at all levels - from pre-school to Pre-med and PhDs of all kinds. This week, Ross Olson, the Coordinator of Miami’s Institute for Food Farm, Colin Valantino, an IES graduate student doing a Summer Client Project “practicum" with the farm, and Aisley Carpenter, a student worker at the farm, are all with Cultivating Place to share more. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Can you believe it is already back-to-school seas… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1595504298 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:43:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16300948/thoughtful-alchemy-sustainable-floral-design-shane-connolly-co 00:56:31 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we tend toward summer’s end, with end-of-summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the planning, we turn this week to floristry and how and where it intersects with sustainability – and as our guest today shares, with thoughtfulness. British floral designer Shane Connolly is well-known for his world-class floristry and floral design – gracing several weddings within the British Royal Family as well as the recent coronation of King Charles. While his floral design is known for this high-profile event, Shane is also known as one of the preeminent ambassadors for a more sustainable, organic, local, seasonal, and low-waste floral design and floral supply industry. In advance of the Slow Flowers Society welcoming Shane for three days of workshops and events in Seattle, WA Sept 29th – October 1st, Shane joins Cultivating Place this week to share more. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we tend toward summer’s end, with end-of-summe… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1589696539 Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:51:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16291818/firescaping-with-dr-adrienne-edwards-and-rachel-schleiger 01:02:46 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In the throes of fire season, especially in the western regions of North America, this week, we turn to the idea of not only gardening for beauty, food, and/or habitat but also fire preparedness. We’re speaking this week with Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger, biologists, botanists, gardeners, and authors of the new book Firescaping Your Home, a manual for readiness in wildfire country – including 640 resilient native plant recommendations with a focus on native plants of California, Oregon and Washington but widely applicable across wildfire-prone region. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In the throes of fire season, especially in the w… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1582117823 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 17:00:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16281632/the-value-of-native-plants-for-gardens-trials-sam-hoadley-mt-cuba-center 01:04:15 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation center as well as one of the country’s leading research and trial gardens for native plant species as well as their old and new cultivars. Open to the public since 2013, Mt. Cuba is dedicated to us all growing at a higher level. With the fall planning and planting season now firmly in sight, Sam joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about the data (including ecological benefits, optimal growing conditions, performance results, and overall beauty) he and the team at Mt. Cuba are aggregating for us as home gardeners about how native plant species and their selections available on the market really DO In our gardens. It’s valuable data for us all. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Resea… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1575905065 Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:00:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16263383/olbrich-botanical-gardens-centering-plants-people-of-madison-wisconsin-werin-presley 00:56:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded in 1952 on the shores of Lake Wonona in Madison, Wisconsin. In her position since 2014, Erin has become as much a part of the landscape as the plants and animals of the garden she loves. She has been particularly instrumental in bringing to life, with the help of other plants people, gardens of culture representing the natural history and plant relationships of a diversity of Madisonians from the Indigenous cultures, including Ho-chunk, to Ayurvedic, Hmong, and more. It’s the perfect summer field trip to a wonderful public resource. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond gard… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1569876670 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:00:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16251550/coming-to-our-senses-wildscape-with-master-naturalist-nancy-lawson 01:00:53 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening and even rotting. In this week’s conversation, embrace this sublime sensuality from various perspectives in conversation with master naturalist Nancy Lawson. Lawson is perhaps best known as The Humane Gardener, the title of her first book, and her online signature. And a humane gardener she is. She is a habitat consultant, and founder of The Humane Gardener, LLC. She observes, researches, and pioneers creative wildlife-friendly landscaping methods in her own home habitat and for others. In other words – and in all senses of the phrase – Nancy puts her gardening where her words are and words and action come together beautifully in her newest book, Wildscape, Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and Other Sensory Wonders of Nature. Together this week, we delve into her newest research and reporting on the complexity and richness of the sensory life of other than human lives, from the botanical to the birds, bugs, mammals, amphibians, and other wildlife all around us. Wildscape is the eye, ear, nose and heart opening! Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory de… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1564143205 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:00:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16237911/the-beautiful-chaos-of-garden-inspired-living-with-oklahoma-based-linda-vater 00:59:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The garden in summer is what we all dream of: some downtime, some play time, fresh flavors, fragrances, and of course, flowers and fun. This week we revel in the beautiful chaos of a garden-inspired life with an Oklahoma accent in the company of Linda Vater, author of The Beautiful & Edible Garden, and founder of Potager Blog on Instagram and Garden Inspired Living on Youtube. Linda is exuberantly-spirited and as well-known for her former storybook Oklahoma Garden – its expansive front garden and deliciously designed back garden potager - as she is for her extensive and supremely elegant collection of homegrown topiary. Now in residence in her new-old Cottage on the Hill garden, Linda is fashion-minded, fabulous, and fun in the second of our gardener’s summer vacation-themed conversations. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The garden in summer is what we all dream of: som… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1557621916 Thu, 06 Jul 2023 16:48:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16225684/summer-garden-reading-list-hedge-a-conversation-with-novelist-jane-delury 00:59:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Novelist Jane Delury describes herself as a fledgling (maybe seedling?) gardener after 8 years into gardening being part of her everyday life and loves. This labor and love in life coincide with themes of landscapes, gardens, and gardeners becoming fully-embodied motifs and characters in her fiction writing. They show up in her first novel-in-stories, The Balcony, and in her newly released novel Hedge, gardens, gardeners, and gardening past and present from all kinds of perspectives take center stage.  Deep into the heat of the season now, it’s always gratifying to lean into the pleasures of a good summer book. In our case, a good garden-based summer book. Hedge is steamy, dreamy, and through the setting of gardens and garden history, the story plumbs the depths of human longing, loss, and ultimately the long view.  Jane joins Cultivating Place this first week of July to share more about her new and richly gardened novel, the research that went into it, and the garden passion and history that enlivens it. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Novelist Jane Delury describes herself as a fledg… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1552949680 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:00:21 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16214152/good-citizenship-right-relationship-going-beyond-land-acknowledgements-w-redbud-resource-group 00:56:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week before July is upon us, and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so pleased to be joined by Taylor Pennewell and Rose Hammock of the Redbud Resource Group, an advocacy organization founded in 2020 by Taylor and her cousin Madison Esposito. The Redbud Resource Group believes fiercely that intergenerational healing can occur only when Native voices are valued in every area of public life. Taylor and Madison's “firsthand experience as modern Native people inspired" them to "create resources that support all communities" in making an often erased population visible again. “Native people are often left out of conversations on issues that impact their communities,” the Group notes, and in their work, they see the impact of this erasure regularly. As an intervention and disruption of this pattern, the Redbud Resource Group is improving public health outcomes for Native American communities through education, research, and community partnership. It is generative, growing, and much-needed work in our world going meaningfully beyond land acknowledgments and building bridges between Native and non-native communities. As Taylor and Rose make clear early in our conversation, you cannot separate the fate of any damage done to Native peoples from that done to native lands and plant communities; their healing and success go hand in hand as well. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week before July is upon us, and thoughts of… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1547253448 Thu, 22 Jun 2023 17:13:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16203141/impermanent-beauty-summer-solstice-week-with-morning-altars-day-schildkret 01:00:20 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and how they are growing our world, I am so pleased to be back in conversation this week with Day Schildkret, the founder, the ongoing creator, and re-creator of the movement and practice known as Morning Altars, bringing together nature, art, and ritual.  Day and his work are devoted to the pursuit of impermanent beauty and how that can become nourishment for life to continue. That sounds like being a gardener to me, and the week of the Summer Solstice is the perfect time to reflect on this. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1540448428 Thu, 15 Jun 2023 17:00:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16192062/in-preparation-of-national-pollinator-week-newest-regional-bumble-bee-atlas-with-leif-richardson 01:13:12 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by Pollinator Partnership. This year National Pollinator Week festivities will take place across the country June 19 – 25, 2023 and in celebration, this week on Cultivating Place we look closely at one particular group of our native pollinators the charismatic bumble bees, the more than 250 species in the genus Bombus. Our guest this week, Leif Richardson, is an Endangered Species Conservation Biologist with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, coordinating the community science efforts behind the newest of the society’s North American Bumble Bee Atlases - this time in California. If you’re in the Northern California listening region, mark your calendars for the mid-July opening of an in-depth and beautiful exhibit entitled Bombus: The Natural History of Bumble Bees. At Gateway Science Museum on the campus of California State University, Chico, this new exhibition interweaves current scientific research on the North American population of bumble bees, as well as over a decade of study, observations and spectacular photography by plantsman and California Bumble Bee Atlas participant John Whittlesey. Through his deeply studied lens, you will never see a bumble bee again without a deepened love and appreciation. Listen in this week and join us in person this summer! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1534279741 Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:00:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16177748/garden-for-wildlife-celebrating-50-years-national-wildlife-federations-mary-phillips 01:09:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, wildscaping, backyard habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat gardening, Homegrown National Park, Perfect Earth, 2/3rds for the Birds, or Garden for Wildlife, the concepts of Conservation + Biodiversity + our Gardens wherever they might be is not a new idea, although it is newly imperative in our world. These three concepts as a perfect trinity go back to at very least 1973 when the National Wildlife Federation kicked off its Garden for Wildlife Program. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of these programs, Cultivating Place is joined this week by Mary Phillips, since 2014 she has been the head of the NFW’s garden for wildlife and certified wildlife habitat programs. In this big anniversary year, the programs are very close to realizing 300,000 cultivated wildlife habitats and gardens. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, wil… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1527485809 Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:00:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16157964/normalizing-native-plant-landscape-fun-with-the-theodore-payne-foundation 01:09:28 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration through the lens of California: seed identified, site-sourced, and grown for conservation & biodiversity support. The foundational level of seed – for scales large and small, and how it grows on from there is top of mind at the Theodore Payne Foundation in Southern California, an historic conservation icon in their region through their seed banking and native plant conservation, education, and community-based work. This week I am joined by Executive Director Evan Meyer, Seed & Bulb Program Manager Genevieve Arnold, and Horticulturist and California Native Plant Landscaper Certification instructor Alejandro Lemus to explore and celebrate more about the radical range of the Theodore Payne Foundation as it grows us into the future and normalizes the great fun of native plant landscapes. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1522553296 Thu, 25 May 2023 16:45:28 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16147715/high-value-habitat-pat-reynolds-of-heritage-growers-native-seed-plant 00:57:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring of habitat restoration projects, including the effective use of native seed. He is the Director of River Partners’ Native Seed and Plant program, the former General Manager of Hedgerow Farms, and a past Associate Restoration Ecologist at H.T. Harvey & Associates. This week we continue our series exploring conservation and biodiversity support at the foundational level of seed—for scales large and small—in conversation with Pat. Heritage Grower’s high-quality habitat seed sourcing, grow out, and distribution to restoration projects, often in collaboration with their sibling endeavor, River Partners, is a model in getting high-quality source-identified seed for the right places in the face of increasing urgency for restoration, but also increasing hope as to the impact of restoration. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1517063566 Thu, 18 May 2023 17:00:50 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16132339/seed-strategies-at-scale-andrea-williams 01:20:25 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we kick off a several-part series looking into the state of seed, specifically wildland seed, for conservation and ecological restoration in our world from various perspectives. We start off in conversation with Andrea Williams, the Director of Biodiversity Initiatives with the California Native Plant Society, and from there, a contributor to both the proposed California Seed Strategy and the National Seed Strategy. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we kick off a several-part series looki… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1511584126 Thu, 11 May 2023 17:00:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16118089/just-in-time-for-mothers-day-bloom-with-the-slow-flowers-societys-deb-prinzing 00:54:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no We are now mid-May, halfway through a month of graduations, spring celebrations, and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US this coming weekend. Something that all of these celebratory kinds of human-marked rituals and events have in common? We so often mark them with the best of our most loved flowers of the season. With that as our touchstone, I am so pleased to once again be in conversation this week with Deb Prinzing, founder of the Slow Flowers movement here in the U.S. and Canada, and of The Slow Flowers Society, representing the needs, successes, stories, and voices of the floral world in the Slow Flowers Journal, in the weekly Slow Flowers Podcast, and in the annual gathering known as the Slow Flowers Summit, this year happening in Seattle, WA June 26th and 27th. As yet another facet of her floral-focused advocacy, Deb is co-founder and Editorial Director of Bloom Imprint Books, which identifies, develops, and publishes projects that shine a light on the floral lifestyle, showcasing the stories of floral personalities, creatives, entrepreneurs, farmers, artisans, and makers. Their newest title, “Furrow and Flour,” by sisters Sarah Kuenzi and Beth Syphers, fits right in with this week’s themes. I don’t know how she does it all, but I am so pleased she’s back to share with us about it. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. We are now mid-May, halfway through a month of gr… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1506459262 Thu, 04 May 2023 16:53:44 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16106225/soil-the-story-of-a-black-mothers-garden-with-camille-dungy 01:22:11 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we head into the exuberance of May and towards Mother’s Day celebrations here in the U.S., this week, we speak again with award-winning poet, scholar, and University Distinguished Professor at CSU, Colorado: Camille Dungy.  Her newest book, Soil: The Story of A Black Mother’s Garden, just published on Tuesday, May 2nd, from Simon & Schuster. SOIL is a rich exploration into and celebration of ancestry and being an ancestor; about what it means to be human, about motherhood, writing, gardening, biodiversity, grief, beauty, joy, and above all, SOIL is about the tenacious hope for growth. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we head into the exuberance of May and towards… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1501471588 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:00:17 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16094886/best-of-with-david-rawle-theodora-park-charleston-sc 00:57:09 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we close out April, a best of conversation from Mother’s Day 2022. Can we ever get enough nurturing energy in the world? Enjoy! 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 financial and care planning for the long haul) in a way that is reminiscent of the very best of private gardens: it is open, it is both lively and tranquil, it is filled with beautiful seasonal (native and non-native) plants, it offers places to sit, to play, to splash as well as to gather; it offers artful views representative of and inviting for the entire community - residents and visitors alike - human and more-than-human alike. Theodora Park was opened in 2015 and is dedicated to the memory ofDavid’s mother - Theodora. Happy Mother’s Day to all mothering souls and spaces - may all of our gardens, public and private, be welcoming, nurturing – shall we say mothering - places for all. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we close out April, a best of conversation fro… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1500272296 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 18:00:07 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16094888/cultivating-eden-with-rebecca-allan-mixdown 00:59:11 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This last week of April, we enjoy an art of the garden conversation with artist, historian, gardener and environmental advocate Rebecca Allan. Bronx-New York-based, Rebecca is “known for her richly layered and chromatically nuanced abstract paintings. Her work investigates watershed environments and landscapes and is inspired by her deep interest in botany and land conservation. In 2018 Rebecca established Painterly Gardens, a firm specializing in sustainable garden design. From January through June of 2023, Rebecca’s solo show, Cultivating Eden is featured at Wave Hill House & Garden. The exhibit presents Rebecca’s recent paintings focused on the labor of gardeners and their spaces. By artistically highlighting working process—both visible and unnoticed—her series praises the devoted care that the gardeners provide on a daily basis. She sees Wave Hill as “a special place where art and horticulture are intertwined. Both practices require tenacity, refined skill and historical curiosity.” As an artist and gardener Rebecca notes that one motivation behind her work is “a desire to nurture the world by envisioning and then enacting spaces where beauty is revealed.” This last week of April, we enjoy an art of the g… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1497099985 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:59:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16085581/earth-day-special-we-are-the-ark-with-irelands-mary-reynolds 00:59:33 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It is now Mid-April, and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are blooming and being admired across the country! In honor of Earth Day 2023 and all of the fierce and tender hopes we have for it, we are back in conversation with Ireland’s Mary Reynolds, self-described as an ex-garden designer, actively reimagining and rebuilding a relationship with nature through her most recent founding of a movement known as We Are the Ark in which we transform our gardens and gardening into Acts of restorative Kindness welcoming and supporting all manner of life. Some of you may remember that my previous conversation with Mary in 2019 after her last book, The Garden Awakening, was published, and just as she was founding We Are the Ark. Mary’s dedication and persistence around the importance of each of us in stewarding the land we can is a bright spot in our world. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It is now Mid-April, and this week we are celebra… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1491672367 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:00:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16070056/curiosity-in-the-field-of-dreams-with-plantsman-roy-diblik 01:09:28 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives calling to bring gardeners great plants – whether introducing native plants to the horticultural trade, selecting best garden varieties from naturally occurring choices by breeding, and by educating both the trade and gardeners in their gardens on best cultivation of these same plants. This week's guest on Cultivating Place is one such well-known and long-respected plantsperson who has helped to shift our horticultural world for the better these past many decades – Roy Diblik. Roy who began selecting and propagating native plants for ecologically and beautiful gardens beginning in the 1970s, and as a gardener, nurseryman, writer, and thinker, he went on to co-found Northwind Perennials Farm, a nursery and garden design business based in Burlington, Wisconsin, serving public and private gardens and gardeners. Roy is an expert at creating compelling and ecologically-contributing combinations of native and nonnative plants using methods he variously describes as the watercolor style of planting, and “know maintenance” designs. It is a pleasure to welcome this national treasure of a plantsman to the program. Roy’s knowledge and passion has something to offer every garden and every gardener. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Great gardens need great plants, and great plants… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1486644565 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:40:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16060498/prairie-up-with-plantsperson-benjamin-vogt 01:05:21 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snowdrops in Vermont, Cherry Blossoms in DC, wildflowers in California, and daffodils peeking out in parts of Colorado between snow storms – April has plenty of her own bloom and the growing season is underway. To inspire your planting and designs for the season ahead, this week we’re back in conversation with Benjamin Vogt of Monarch Gardens, a fierce advocate on behalf of our gardens being critically important links in our world’s broken and fragmented ecological chains. You may remember my 2018 conversation with Benjamin about his first book – A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future?  Well that ethical manifesto now has an instruction manual in Benjamin’s second book - Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design – it might be just the reference you need to get your growing season off to a great start. Join us this week for more with Benjamin Vogt! All images courtesy of Benjamin Vogt, Monarch Gardens, LLC., all rights reserved. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. I know the adage goes that April showers bring Ma… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1481306320 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:58:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16050240/why-women-grow-with-alice-vincent-aka-noughticulture 01:00:32 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller based in London, and examining with gusto and curiosity the intricacies of words and language, of what it is to be human, to be a woman, and to be always in service to the wonders – large and small, grief-laden and joy-spangled - of everyday life. The author of several previous books, including her nature memoir - Rootbound, Rewilding a Life, Alice goes by the name Noughticulture online. For our final episode in this year's five-part series of Cultivating Place in honor of Women’s History Month, I caught up with Alice just a few short weeks ago to talk in-depth about her newest work: Why Women Grow, Stories of Soil, Sisterhood, and Survival. It is a moving, indeed verdant, tapestry of Alice’s own story as a woman "going to ground" to grow herself, intertwined with that stories of other women gardening across Great Britain and beyond and what that has meant to their own lives and to our collective understanding of both gardens and women. Since we spoke, Alice has added one more title to her life list: mother. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller bas… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1475836462 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:10:53 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16037630/tyra-shenaurlt-the-w-w-seymour-botanical-conservatory-in-wright-park-tacoma-wa 00:58:32 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Botanical Conservatory in Tacoma’s wright park. From March 2021 to May of 2022, the historic structure underwent a massive restoration. Now almost one year out from re-opening, Tyra is with us to share more about her own story as a black woman in horticulture and the story of the historic conservatory where she has made the most of her career and leadership. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. For this penultimate episode of Women’s History m… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1470343405 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:55:05 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16026455/the-seed-keepers-with-diane-wilson-1 00:56:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Sovereignty Alliance. Diane has long interwoven her gardening and her advocacy work with her writing, and her first novel, The Seed Keeper, was published by Milkweed press in 2021. Join us for more about Diane’s journey of discovering, sharing, and celebrating seeds and Indigenous cultural recovery through the knowledge and history that seeds hold and the future they make possible. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we revisit a best-of Cultivating Place … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1465098718 Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:28:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16013365/bringing-back-the-natives-tour-kathy-kramer 01:01:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 larger planet, I am so pleased to be in conversation this week with Kathy Kramer. Kathy is a long-time advocate for native plant and ecological gardening based on the natives of your area, and she has been determined for many, many years to demonstrate just how beautiful that concept of gardening can be. She is the founder of The Bringing back the Natives Garden Tour, based in the Bay Area of Northern California, but which after 19 years in operation, has country-wide acclaim. The tour and the gardening-ethos it cultivates and celebrates can be replicated anywhere we as humans garden. As Spring draws closer - Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In a continuation of Women’s History Month and ou… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1459782256 Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:00:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/16001704/loving-the-surface-of-the-earth-orwells-roses-with-rebecca-solnit 01:16:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 interests—from politics to cultural geography to environmentalism and an abiding love of the earth herself. In her hands, all of these topics are revelations on our culture’s many fault lines and the human actions and responses—from walking, to reading, to traveling or gardening with open minds, eyes, and hearts—that might bridge these fault lines. Rebecca’s many books include Wanderlust, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, The Far Away Nearby, Men Explain Things to Me, and Orwell’s Roses, “a lush exploration of politics, roses, and pleasure, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded [and sometimes refueled] by his passion for the natural world.” While many of Rebecca’s titles fall firmly under the purview of the concerns of Cultivating Place, it was her 2021 title, Orwell’s Roses, the was the catalyst for my inviting her to be a guest on the program – that and a generous nudge from Maria Popova. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In this first week of March, we kick off Women’s … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1454134591 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:51:49 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15989651/winter-keepers-cookers-and-ciders-james-rich-orchardist-and-chef 01:01:38 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 far away. We’re in conversation with the UK’s James Rich, orchardist, chef, and author of Apple: Recipes from the Orchard and his latest Orchard: Sweet and Savoury Recipes from the Countryside, out now from Hardie Grant Books. I caught up with James in late November, and I knew this would be a warming conversation for this end-of-February time of year. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This last week of February, we return to our love… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1448521819 Thu, 16 Feb 2023 18:16:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15979476/the-uplifting-ujaama-with-bonnetta-adeeb-and-nathan-kleinman 01:07:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 stories, centered on the cooperative, and communal concept of Ujaama, in conversation with Bonnetta Adeeb of Ujaama Seeds, and the Ujaama Cooperative Farming Alliance, and Nathan Kleinman of the Experimental Farm network, a member and collaborator in the Ujaam alliance and all that it is growing – which is both uplifting and delicious. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1443353755 Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:56:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15967261/the-love-stories-of-abra-lee-atlanta-ga 01:13:18 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Love Letters of Abra Lee, love letters, love stories, and loving gardeners is an explicit theme here this month!  In celebration of Black History Month in progress and Valentine’s Day coming up – this week we’re rejoined in conversation by Abra Lee, gardener, garden scholar under the name of Conquer the Soil, horticulturist, and graduate of the Longwood Gardens Fellows program, a 13-month leadership in public horticulture fellowship. In addition to co-creating a public garden exhibition called Music x Flowers, Abra has recently accepted a position as Director of Horticulture at the Oakland Cemetery, a historic Victorian garden cemetery in downtown Atlanta. This week’s conversation is a valentine to gardeners and garden lovers everywhere. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivatin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1438005112 Thu, 02 Feb 2023 18:00:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15952099/for-the-love-of-apples-the-montezuma-orchard-restoration-project 01:05:15 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 globe – apples. We’re in conversation with Jude Schuenemeyer, who with his wife Addie, has spent decades discovering, researching, documenting, protecting, restoring, and propagating the rich diversity of heritage apple varieties in Colorado’s southwestern-most Montezuma county.  The diversity of apple genetics in this region traces back 150 years or more, and in this traditional winter season of apple tree pruning, and apple scion wood selection, and the first of grafting season, Jude shares with us more about how The Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project ( affectionately referred to as MORP) is preserving historic trees and orchards and simultaneously cultivating food, economic, and environmental vigor in their region, which makes a wonderful model for all of our regions. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As February is upon us we turn from a love letter… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1433090101 Thu, 26 Jan 2023 17:39:01 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15938149/the-klamath-mountains-a-natural-history-michael-kauffman-justin-garwood 01:06:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 to be truly possible.  We’re in conversation with Michael Kauffman, research plant ecologist, educator, and founder with his botanist wife Allison of the ecologically focused Backcountry Press, and Justin Garwood, Environmental Scientist for the California Dept. of Fish and wildlife with a focus on fisheries. Michael and Justin have spent the better part of the last decade curating and editing a cohort of 34 expert contributors to a new and really the first comprehensive Natural History of the Klamath Mountains, one of the most biodiverse temperate mountain ranges on earth. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we complete our 4-part conservation ser… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1427980099 Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:53:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15914583/the-yurok-tribes-revegetation-planning-for-the-undamming-of-the-klamath-river 01:15:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 or don’t work, get done or don’t, and ideally get done as thoroughly and thoughtfully as possible. This week we focus on one specific and historical project at least 50 years in the making – the undamming of the majestic Klamath River. The final approval for the removal of a series of hydroelectric-production dams (whose installations date from the early to the mid1900s) was won in November of 2022. Dam removal is set to begin in 2023. We’re in conversation with two people, Brook Thompson and Joshua Chenoweth, engaged in preparing for the revegetation of the more than 2000 acres that will be re-exposed following the draining of the dam basins. Brook is a Yurok tribal member, a Native scholar, a civil engineer, water rights and cultural sovereignty activist, and Joshua is a restoration ecologist working for the Yurok tribe and leading the many-year planning and implementation of this complex revegetation process. It’s all about re-connections. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Seen in the overview, the 30 x 30 conservation ef… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1422137296 Thu, 12 Jan 2023 18:00:11 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15900958/a-voice-for-plants-the-california-native-plant-society-30-x-30-conservation-goals 01:03:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 conversation with Jun Bando, the new executive director of the California Native Plant Society, and back in conversation with Liv O’Keefe, the senior director of Public Affairs for the Society. CNPS is an important agency in a larger coalition of agencies and groups contributing to California’s planning, assessment, and projects meeting the goals of 30 x 30 in this one large biodiverse state. A good portion of this broader coalition took part in CNPS’s 2022 conservation conference, entitled Rooting together: restoring connections to plants, place, and people, at which one whole learning track was dedicated to conservation via the 30 x 30 framework and funding as we look ahead.  Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we continue our multi-part series on th… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1417297777 Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:02:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15885885/conserving-biodiversity-habitat-30-x-30-with-jennifer-norris 00:55:55 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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% of our world’s biodiversity by 2030. While President Joe Biden committed to the goals of the 30 x 30 conservation concept within a week of taking office in January 2021, the state of California had already committed to the vision in late 2020 with Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of the Executive Order N-82-20 outlining and financially supporting the State of California to preserving 30% of its land and water biodiversity, as overseen by California’s Secretary of Natural Resources since 2019, Wade Crowfoot. The first in our series of conversations with people engaged in envisioning and engineering the 30 x 30 conservation projects coming from federal, state, and local levels - and we hope into our very backyards - is with Jennifer Norris, the Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat at the California Natural Resources Agency. Norris leads the state's 30x30 initiative being carried out by many agencies and organizations and she oversees "Cutting Green Tape" in support of landscape-scale habitat restoration. Hope you’ll join us for this informative and inspiring series! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Welcome, 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1412426353 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:23:01 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15873480/garden-masterclass-calling-all-gardeners-annie-guilfoyle-noel-kingsbury 00:56:26 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 their year-round and globally accessible Garden Masterclass forum. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we look out over a new garden year this week, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1408312585 Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:00:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15862469/what-it-means-to-be-a-gardener-community-based-restoration-ecology-cris-sarabia 01:02:40 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 GreyWater Action Network, the California Native Plant Society, Pelecanus, and Puente Latino, a grassroots non-profit art, culture, and ecology organization serving the North Long beach community since 2019. At this time of year, post-Solstice, in the midst of Hanukkah, pre-Christmas, Kwanzaa, and the New Year – I think many of us try to center ideals of clarity, connection, caring, and community. This week we have a conversation with a human whose work caring for lives out these very ideals within his many land, water, plant, and human communities. This to me, is what truly good gardening is all about in so many ways. Many listeners will remember an earlier conversation I had with Cris on Cultivating Place in April of 2021 when Cris was the Board Chair of the California Native Plant Society and their decolonizing work. I am so pleased to be chatting more fully with Cris this week about all that he cultivates in his community-based life. Listen in - and Happy Holidays! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Cris Sarabia is the conservation director of the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1403437423 Thu, 15 Dec 2022 18:01:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15847796/a-winter-solstice-offering-the-marginalian-in-the-garden-with-maria-popova 00:59:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 world as seen through the lenses of how we as humans express ourselves in our own creativity, our intellectual curiosity, our sadnesses and griefs, and in our greatest loves and joys. Gardening and gardeners are recurrently among the human endeavors Maria has explored these many years. This is a light of a conversation in the best spirit of quantum gardening as we near our longest night and just before we begin tending back toward the light once again. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week, a pre-Solstice offering for Cultivatin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1398735715 Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:02:40 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15832498/learning-from-gardeners-past-with-judith-tankard-landscape-historian 00:55:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 history, including her most recent publications, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect (Monacelli Press, 2022); Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement; and Ellen Shipman and the American Garden, winner of the 2019 J. B. Jackson Book Prize. Across her long career, Tankard has traced and made visible the lives, struggles, and achievements of some of the most notable female garden designers and landscape architects of the early 20th century. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week – we visit and learn from gardeners' pa… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1394231605 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:06:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15820116/befriending-our-sites-with-the-garden-refresh-in-conversation-with-kier-holmes 00:53:56 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 and designing, she focuses on low-cost and low-impact, chemical-free, richly textured, visually dynamic spaces full of life – all of which is well documented in her newest book: The Garden Refresh How to Give your Yard Big Impact on a Small Budget. Kier joins cultivating place this week to kick off December! Listen in. 114_Kier_EM.jpg All images courtesy of Kier Holmes, all rights reserved. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer regul… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1389905461 Thu, 24 Nov 2022 20:09:35 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15807102/thankful-a-thousand-ways-to-pay-attention-rebecca-schiller 01:02:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 - even after a surprising diagnosis of severe ADHD. Schiller’s writing and her gardening-life vividly reminds us all that being different doesn’t have to mean broken – in our minds, our hearts, or our gardens. This narrative and this discussion remind us that it is the many ways in which we pay attention in this world that shows what and whom we value and everyone and everything for which we are thankful. And it is so very often our gardens that remind us not only of where we are but who we are. Listen in this week! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Dear All, Rebecca Schiller is a gardener, a smal… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1385195599 Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:41:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15788161/healing-gratitude-connection-with-zephrine-hanson-hampden-farms-denver-co 00:55:38 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 the garden perhaps especially well. Zepherine - Zee – Hanson is an Air Force Veteran who, after 8 years serving as a military photojournalist, took a medical retirement in 2004. As part of her own healing journey, Zephrine joined the Veterans to Farmers program in Denver, CO. Working in partnership with the Denver Botanic Gardens, the therapeutic Veterans to Farmers program was life-changing for Zephrine, bringing together all of the things she cared most about and motivating her to found her business Hamden Farms, which connects farming, storytelling, small business incubation, underserved communities, and growing outside the box. For her innovative work researching how to connect unused farm produce to small makers looking to craft value add products- helping to stabilize the incomes of both farmers and makers, Zephrine has won awards and recognition from the Bob Evan Heroes to CEOs program, from LinkedIn Creator Accelerator Program, from REI, and more. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In this week after Veterans Day here in the U.S, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1380394135 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 18:55:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15773034/the-arnold-arboretum-celebrates-150-years-of-growing-together-wwilliam-ned-friedman 00:57:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 week we are in a conversational exploration about the scale and meaning of trees, with William (Ned) Friedman, 8th director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. Located in Jamaica Plain and Roslindale Masschuesetts, this free and open-to-the public majestic convening of trees is celebrating its 150th anniversary of growing together. The trees have so much to teach us, and we have so much to learn. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In one of our more flamboyant arboreal seasons of… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1375832968 Thu, 03 Nov 2022 17:04:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15759421/the-evolving-public-garden-with-members-of-the-horticultural-team-at-filoli-historic-house-garden 00:58:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 practices to generously pay their long history of privilege forward. Just in time for the generous season in front of us. At Filoli, gardeners are striving to meet the social and environmental moment in the best ways possible—ever adapting and evolving to experiment, include, reinterpret, and contribute more and more positively. They think not only about what to plant when but about why these spaces matter and what they have to teach us.  Jim Salyards is the Director of the garden at Filoli, Kate Nowell is the production gardens manager, and Haley O’Connor is Filoli’s formal gardens manager. They are all with us this week to speak and share more on just these topics. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Settling into November now, this week on Cultivat… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1413295228 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15885296/punk-ikebana-edited-mixdown 00:54:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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, and Cultivating Place is in conversation this week with an artist and a green spirit in our garden care world, Louesa Roebuck, about her newest book Punk Ikebana: Reimagining the Art of Floral Design (gathering, gleaning & composing in situ), being published by Cameron + Company Books on November 8. Louesa is a multimedia and multigenre creative, floral artist, printmaker, painter, textile designer, curator, and author. You may recall our conversation several years ago around her first book: Foraged Flora. In Punk Ikebana, Louesa starts from a place of reverence for tradtion, in particular those of Japan, but also from a place of "peace-punk, Do-No-Harm." Ikebana, “the way of the flowers,” has been studied formally in Japan and beyond for centuries. In Punk Ikebana, Louesa explains and riffs on the art form’s classic rules—and then demonstrates how to seasonally, sensually, and meaningfully bend them. The book highlights stunning arrangements and installations that unite the cultural meanings and wise elegance of a traditional perspective with an inviting freedom from convention for anyone to feel welcome into. Approaching All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween, Samhain, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1366916359 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:05:05 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15729390/gardening-with-american-roots-nick-and-allison-mccullough 01:00:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 New Albany, Ohio. Their new book American Roots, Lesson and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagining our Home Gardens, is a transcontinental tour of diverse modern home garden design offering lessons and inspiration- seasoned with playfulness, passion, and purpose. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1362446992 Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:07:51 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15714804/best-of-cascades-with-poet-gardener-camille-dungy 00:59:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Camille is also a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. In our conversation, we explore the intertwining of poetry, gardening, life, and trophic cascades in each of them. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As another offering to all of you in this Autumna… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1358051344 Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:00:28 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15686919/proportionality-the-northeast-native-plant-primer-with-uli-lorimer 00:58:17 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Plant Primer: 235 Plants for an Earth Friendly Garden," is a great resource no matter where you garden. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we look to our fall and winter planting and pl… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1353589219 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:45:46 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15672281/seed-season-bioregional-seed-sense-with-stacey-denton-of-flora-farm-design-studio 00:58:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 make our lives possible.  Stacey Denton, of Flora Farm & Design Studio in Williams, Oregon, is an organic flower farmer, bioregional seed grower, and homesteader based in the Klamath Siskiyou region of Southern Oregon. Trained in ecology, permaculture, organic farming, and seed growing and saving, Stacey makes her community-and-land-based life with her daughter Hannah and with her parents nearby. Stacey and I connected over the importance of bioregional seed growing, sourcing, knowing, and supporting at the Slow Flowers Summit held at Filoli in the summer of 202, and she joins cultivating Place this week to share more about the literacy - and joy - of specifically bioregional seeds.  Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This first full week of Autumn in the Northern He… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1349053855 Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:52:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15658344/regeneration-with-the-intention-of-deep-joy-and-fun-farmer-rishi 00:54:09 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 by invitation. His intention for working in the fields of regeneration and urban farming is to joyfully increase understanding around the basic principles behind the healing of our bodies: both our physical bodies and our shared Earthen body. From his experiences farming in suburban Southern California as well as at Vandana Shiva’s Navdanya Farm in India, Rishi believes that our individual footprints can and should leave the world with rich soil, running rivers, and smiling faces. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we look at cultur… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1344519007 Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:15:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15643264/from-the-steppe-plants-of-the-world-to-better-urban-landscapes-for-the-world-anna-andreyeva 01:04:09 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 world under British plantsman Nigel Dunnett in Sheffield, England. Anna designed the plantings for many public spaces, including the so-called Highline of Moscow prior to moving to the UK four years ago. In 2022, she collaborated on the planting plans for the “What Does Not Burn” garden, symbolizing the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and reflecting the country’s culture and tradition at the Hampton Court flower show. Sponsored by the GLAU (Guild of Landscape Architects of Ukraine) and Studio Toop, the garden won an award for Global Impact. Anna joins us this week to share more about gardens and plants as common grounds and art forms to help meet the challenges ahead. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Anna Andreyeva is a Russian-born UK- based garden… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1339811785 Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:00:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15628929/raise-em-right-plant-human-community-at-barton-springs-nursery-austin-texas 00:59:07 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 our great national treasures. This week following Labor Day, we celebrate these treasures wherever they may be in conversation with one: Barton Springs Nursery in Austin, TX, where since 1986 the owners and staff having been raising both plants and gardeners right. In 2021, Barton Springs Nursery succeeded from the founders Conrad and Bernadine Bering into the skillful and passionate hands of garden designer Amy Hovis, and horticulturist William Glenn and photographer and systems designer Greg Thomas. The three, plus their dedicated and knowledgeable staff continue the long and beautiful Barton Springs Nursery legacy of offering in-house, seed-grown, native and climate adapted plants (without the use of toxic chemicals), inspiring display gardens, and garden education ensuring low-impact, high contribution - and even higher joy - gardening for Austin – and the planet. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. If you ask me, the independent nurseries and grow… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1335772612 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 16:52:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15603533/digging-deep-and-garden-sparks-in-austin-with-texas-gardener-pam-penick 00:57:36 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 she does from digging, to writing, to organizing gatherings like the Garden Bloggers Fling, a convening of garden communicators in a different city or gardening region of the US each year. In 2017, she dug in deeper and began organizing and hosting a garden design speaker series called Garden Spark, to facilitate bringing some of the best voices in gardening for the benefit and expansion of her garden region. Pam joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about life in a hot & dry climate as a thinking gardener. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Pam Penick is the gardener behind the well-known … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1331203048 Thu, 25 Aug 2022 16:18:28 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15592445/transforming-lawns-into-meadows-of-life-with-owen-wormser 00:57:01 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 right now) might be wearing thin….especially with the relentless watering/mowing/blowing of a thirsty lawn. Maybe you’re rethinking your lawn? Wanting to water/mow less and see butterflies, hummingbirds, and fireflies more? With just this in mind, this week on CP, we revisit a Best of Conversation with Owen Wormser inspiring us to transform our lawns (or some portion of them) into meadows! Enjoy - At a time when our gardens large and small often feel more important than ever, I think our focus on exactly what our gardens contain and consist of is also more important than ever.   I’m pleased to be speaking about just this with Owen Wormser. Based in Western Massachusetts, Owen is the founder of Abound Design, providing design & consulting for regenerative, sustainability-focused landscapes. He is also the co-founder with traditional and clinical herbalist Chris Marano, of the non-profit Local Harmony, focused on encouraging and creating community driven regeneration. Finally, Owen is the author of a new book entitled "Lawns into Meadows, Growing a Regenerative Landscape", out now from Stone Pier Press.  Owen joins us to share more on his deep belief in the planet’s tendency towards abundance. Listen in. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Still in the Dog Days of Summer - the heat it hot… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1326576703 Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:47:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15579539/the-prairie-gardeners-go-to-guides-with-calgary-gardener-janet-melrose 00:54:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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, Alberta as the Cottage Gardener, she is also an urban farming spokesperson and leader, a horticultural therapist, and co-author with fellow gardener Sheryl Normandeau of a series known as the Prairie Gardener’s Go-To guides - the first of those guides was published in March 2020 by Touchwood Editions and two additional guides have been released every year since. The series is up-to-date Q & As for gardening in Janet’s specific northern prairie place on everything from vegetables to soil, seeds to garden pest management, trees, and shrubs to perennials, but Janet is deeply embedded in her garden community in a wide variety of ways. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our ongoing exploration of where gardeners are… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1321951690 Thu, 11 Aug 2022 17:00:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15560974/test-plot-a-celebration-of-labor-community-based-ecological-restoration-wjen-toy-jenny-jones 01:02:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 traditional term used in botany and land reclamation work. It describes a smaller piece of land on which outcomes are observed and tested in order to apply an appropriate treatment or formulate a realistic expectation for larger piece of land – whether for reclamation needs, the land’s seed bank, for soil health, or the like. But Jenny and Jen’s idea, that they call Test Plot is to create an ongoing, hands-on experiment in ecological restoration that engages the community. Initially a more casual project of the Terremoto LA design firm, Jenny and Jen’s purpose for Test Plot is to celebrate the labor involved in land care and to build a stronger land and community-based land stewardship ethic, starting from their own community of Los Angeles. Soon enough, they hope to be growing somewhere close to you! Listen in. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re in conversa… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1317994498 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:46:38 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15543366/best-of-cultivating-place-adventurous-design-civilization-building-david-godshall-terremoto-la 00:58:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 of designers in 2021. David’s LA home garden and his perspective on adventurous gardening and design are featured in Under Western Skies, on which I collaborated with photographer Caitlin Atkinson. This week we revisit David’s conversation with Cultivating Place last year, and as he shares in our conversation: "Garden building is civilization building,” it should be done with creativity and integrity at all levels. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. David Godshall is a landscape architect, gardener… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1313578885 Thu, 28 Jul 2022 17:03:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15461656/the-history-importance-of-summer-tomatoes-south-jersey-style-jeff-quattrone 00:54:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Jersey. Jeff is particularly dedicated to the preservation and sharing forward of the histories and genetics of historic, culturally, and economically important Jersey Tomatoes – born and bred right there in his region for more than a century. In 2014 Jeff founded the Library Seed Bank, which grew into a Southern New Jersey seed library network. Having work with Seed Savers Exchange and served as a Slow Food Ark of Taste’s regional representative and for Slow Food International’s Seed Working Group in 2021, Jeff was the keynote speaker for the Seed Library Summit as well as an organizer of Slow Food’s Seed Summit. Through his heirloom seed and food activism, Jeff’s work is most broadly a deep commitment to seed and food sovereignty for all. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It’s the height of warm season crops in our garde… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1309385461 Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:51:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15446899/connection-diversity-from-a-landscape-perspective-cheetah-tchudi-of-turkeytail-farm 00:53:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 serving the community of Butte County California.  Cheetah is also the founder and Program Director of Butte Remediation, providing support to home and property owners by testing soils for contamination, targeting the contaminants with fungi capable of remediating those toxins, and measuring success with follow-up fungal tissue and soil sampling. Cheetah, passionate about mushrooms and fungal life, devised this kind of bioremediation support for his region following the devastation of the Campfire of 2018, which burned much of his farm and farm buildings.  Cheetah joins Cultivating Place for a conversation about the importance of small family farms supporting their communities and connection and diversity as strength from a land perspective. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It’s the height of summer farmers' markets as com… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1305234487 Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:39:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15431582/the-civic-garden-center-of-greater-cincinnati-wexecutive-director-karen-kahle 00:54:06 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Karen Kahle Executive Director of the Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati, where for 80 years the Center has empowered gardeners, grown food, habitat, educational programs, and community in abundance. A very Happy first Octogenarian Birthday to the Civic Garden Center - here’s to many more. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In a month where there is a lot of talk about wha… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1301373598 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:26:52 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15419144/preservation-and-transformation-san-franciscos-greenhouse-project-with-caitlyn-galloway 00:55:38 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 of this project that Urban Agriculture is essential to building a sustainable future wherever you might live. The Greenhouse Project is an urban agriculture initiative working to restore and repurpose a historic 2.2-acre agricultural site lined with abandoned agricultural greenhouses in the city’s Portola community into a collaborative, visionary hub for food production, education, connection, and environmental stewardship. Caitlyn Galloway is an artist and a gardener, having been involved in urban agricultural projects for the past 15 years in San Francisco, she is the vision and strategy lead for the Greenhouse Project. Listen in! Bio photos of Caitlyn at the Greenhouse Project Site by Jeff Hunt, Storied: San Francisco, all rights reserved. Photos of 770 Woolsey Street, site of the Greenhouse Project courtesy of the Greenhouse Project, all rights reserved. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1297441474 Thu, 30 Jun 2022 16:52:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15402992/the-generosity-mutual-care-of-seeds-wken-greene-co-founder-of-hudson-valley-seed-company 00:56:06 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first public library-based seed lending library in the US; in 2008 he went on to co-found with his partner Doug Muller, Hudson Valley Seed Company, a seed, and art company focused on heirloom and open-pollinated vegetable, flower and herb seed. Ever more interested in seed literacy, sovereignty, and cultural seed rematriation, in 2016, K and Shanyn Siegel, a seed work colleague, founded the now dormant non-profit, Seedshed devoted to sharing and supporting the cultural, agricultural, and ecological diversity of seed. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. K joins Cultivating Place this week to delve into… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1293110215 Thu, 23 Jun 2022 17:02:09 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15387977/national-pollinator-week-summer-solstice-urban-pollination-ecology-with-dr-monika-egerer 01:00:44 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 porch or street light each evening? Dragonflies, mosquitos, bumblebees, and flower flies dancing across your flowers and grasses by day? National Pollinator Week is June 20 – 26, and this week we’re in conversation with Dr. Monika Egerer, pollination ecologist at the Technical University of Munich sharing more about the importance of well-designed urban gardens for pollinator support. Monika researches the ecology and management of production-oriented ecosystems in and around cities. She pursues an interdisciplinary research approach that analyzes connections between biodiversity, environmental and climate protection, ecosystem services and social-ecological issues in urban agricultural systems. A strong focus of her work is the role of insects and plant biodiversity in urban ecosystems, specifically in the context of habitat management, urbanization and climate change. Seems that our gardens as contributions to urban biodiversity depend on our viewing them as habitats and our embrace of an “agroecological” in which the focus on production for our needs (food, flowers, control) and the needs of other lives (ecology) is key. As is a little more wildness... Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It is really and truly summer now Happy Summer So… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1288760227 Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:00:44 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15372673/black-flora-with-teri-speight-in-honor-of-juneteenth 00:52:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 creativity at work with flowers. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Teresa J Speight is a Washington DC-based gardene… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1284366928 Thu, 09 Jun 2022 16:42:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15359947/long-live-love-foundations-serenity-healing-garden-in-oakland-ca 00:53:45 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 timely episode, but it is. I am joined this week in conversation by Gabrielle Chanel El, Chanae Pickett, and Ezekiel McCarter - founders of the Long Live Love Foundation. Following the traumatic deaths of Gabrielle’s husband and Chanae and Zeke’s father, the Reverend David McCarter in 2011, and Gabrielle’s eldest son and Chanae and Zeke’s brother, Immanuel, several years later, their very personal and lived mission is to support survivors and victims of traumatic violence in part through the solace, sanctuary, and community of a public healing serenity garden in West Oakland, California. As we prepare for Juneteenth 2022 - listen in this week! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we consider the idea of mental health a… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1279923307 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:00:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15346175/the-well-gardened-mind-with-sue-stuart-smith-best-of 00:56:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 as well. I was so pleased to read last week that at one of the garden world’s biggest show events, London’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show, held the last week of May, judges awarded a gold medal to a garden entitled the mind garden, designed by Andy Sturgeon and supported by Crocus.  With the idea of mental health care being intertwined with our gardens, this week Cultivating Place revisits a best-of conversation from 2020 with British psychiatrist/psychotherapist, researcher, and gardener, Sue Stuart-Smith, author of "The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature", which explores her many years of research and findings on the physiology of the brain and the creativity and connections cultivated in the brain when we are gardening. In this work “of science, insight and anecdote,” Sue demonstrates that “our understanding of nature and its restorative powers is just beginning to flower.” Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. I think it’s nearly impossible to try and stay ab… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1275796357 Thu, 26 May 2022 18:21:29 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15332025/the-power-of-local-garden-info-in-the-coastal-garden-lyons-filmer-susan-hayes 00:55:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 – provided in-person, on-air, in writing, or online, to help grow gardeners. We’re in conversation with Lyons Filmer and Susan Hayes, creators and hosts of "In The Coastal Garden", a bi-weekly community radio program serving their region of coastal Northern California, their joy and passion provide a great region-specific template for anywhere people garden. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As summer arrives, more than 1 million US househo… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1271459047 Thu, 19 May 2022 17:18:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15313653/the-magical-botanicals-of-flora-forager-with-bridget-beth-collins 00:55:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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, and imagination behind the botanical art of Flora Forager. Bridget is a gardener, a mother, and an artist who often brings all three of her life roles together in her work. She founded the Instagram feed and custom artistry known as Flora Forager in the 2000-teens and has since been the author of three books – The Art of Flora Forager, the Flora Forager ABCs, and most recently the Flower Fairy Journals. Bridget joins us this week from her home and garden in Seattle, Washington to share more about the importance of looking at the world through glittering (flowery) eyes. Listen in! 170617-123_480x480.jpg Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. IN the spirit of May, this week we’re headed out … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1267105075 Thu, 12 May 2022 16:50:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15290974/getting-gardenfit-with-madeline-hooper-and-jeff-hughes 00:57:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 a holistic approach to fitness and taking care of your body while you take care of your garden, because as Madeline and Jeff believe: your body is your best garden tool. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Any gardener and their muscles, bones, joints, an… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1262867464 Thu, 05 May 2022 16:59:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15276379/in-honor-of-mothers-day-theodora-park-charleston-sc-with-david-rawle 00:57:36 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 financial and care planning for the long haul) in a way that is reminiscent of the very best of private gardens: it is open, it is both lively and tranquil, it is filled with beautiful seasonal (native and non-native) plants, it offers places to sit, to play, to splash as well as to gather; it offers artful views representative of and inviting for the entire community - residents and visitors alike - human and more-than-human alike. Theodora Park was opened in 2015 and is dedicated to the memory of David’s mother - Theodora. Happy Mother’s Day to all mothering souls and spaces - may all of our gardens, public and private, be welcoming, nurturing – shall we say mothering - places for all. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. David Rawle is the founder and force (with contri… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1258808869 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:34:13 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15256228/color-in-out-of-the-garden-watercolor-practices-for-painters-gardeners-nature-lovers 00:54:24 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 on-line. Lorene joins CP this week to share more about her artistic garden-based daily practice for the last four years, which has resulted in the new book: Color in and Out of the Garden, Watercolor Practices for Painters, Gardeners, and Nature Lovers, out now from Abrams Press. The practice and the book are invitations to lean into her own mission statement in life, seen primarily through the lens of the garden: "look closely, with great heart”. A good blessing for all mothering souls in the world. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In preparation for May and Mother’s Day here in t… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1254465622 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:13:01 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15235998/earth-day-parks-for-the-nature-of-everyone-olmstead200 01:02:46 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted – in celebration and recognition, the National Association for Olmsted Parks is joining with celebration partner locations around the US to host Olmsted200 events, reminding us of the long and valuable legacy of Olmsted – which remains highly relevant for us today. To hear more about Frederick Law Olmsted and his influence on our green spaces to this day, Cultivating Place is joined by Dede Petri, Executive Director of the National Association for Olmsted Parks and John Rowden Senior Director of Bird-Friendly Communities with the Audubon Society. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week, C… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1250260609 Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:26:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15222447/the-indian-edit-with-nitasha-manchanda 00:56:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 Boston, where Nitasha now makes her home, to Germany, Canada, and even returned to India. Subtitled conversations with innovators in design, culture, and entrepreneurship, The Indian Edit launched in May of 2018. While the podcast is not plant-focused, as a gardener herself - from a family of scientists (including a beloved botanist aunt) and gardeners - Nitasha‘s perspective as host of The Indian Edit is a beautiful illustration of how we all - from spice company founders to sari designers, to photographers - take the vocabulary of our landscapes and plants of origin into the rest of our lives with us, no matter where we go. For Nitasha, that is building (and growing) a creative bridge back to India. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Nitasha Manchanda is a genetic scientist, a mothe… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1246149736 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:40:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15204955/saging-the-world-preparing-for-cas-native-plant-week-2022-with-rose-ramirez-and-deborah-small 00:58:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an artist, photographer, and professor at the School of the Arts at California State University, San Marcos.  In preparation for California Native Plant Week 2022 (April 16 - 23), celebrating the botanical biodiversity of the California Floristic Region, Rose and Deborah join Cultivating Place to share more about their new educational and advocacy initiative, Saging the World, on behalf of California’s iconic native white sage, Saliva apiana, sacred to the Indigenous cultures of what is now Southern California and Baja California, Mexico. As part of Saging the World, Rose and Deborah, along with David Bryant of the California Native Plant Society, have coproduced a documentary of the same name, which premieres in LA county on Earth Day, and to which all are invited (tickets required): Saging the World Premiere, Earth Day, Friday, April 22 7 pm - 9 pm, Warner Grande Theatre, 78 W 6th St, San Pedro, CA 90731  The film, created to foster awareness and inspire action for white sage, spotlights the ecological and cultural issues intertwined with white sage, centering the voices of Native advocates who have long protected and cherished this plant. “Saging” has become common in movies, TV shows, social media, and cleansing rituals –people burning sage bundles in the hope of purifying space and clearing bad energy. Instead of healing, the appropriated use of saging in popular culture is having a harmful effect. Indigenous communities have tended a relationship with white sage for thousands of generations. White sage (Salvia apiana) only occurs in southern California and northern Baja California, Mexico. Today, poachers are stealing metric tons of this plant from the wild to supply international demand. The screening will include a panel discussion with Native advocates from the film, as well as a white sage plant giveaway. This Earth Day, go from smudging to seeding as we come together to see plants not just as “resources,” but as “relationships.” The event is sponsored by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardene… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1242048127 Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:30:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15190347/the-heirloom-gardener-traditional-plants-and-skills-for-the-modern-world-with-john-forti 00:56:40 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no John Forti is a garden historian, historic garden horticulturist, and slow food advocate. He has put his years of experience and knowledge into The Heirloom Gardener, Traditional Plants, and Skills for the Modern World – inviting us to lean into the breadth and depth of human millennia-long relationship with plant life.   John joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about his work and this compilation, which introduces and/or reminds readers of age-old skills for a more directly lived life - from the distillation of floral essences to the uses of kelp to the relationship between the Algonquin culture’s word for the fruit that in English is known as strawberry, wuttahimneash (or heart berry), being related to the heart health associated with the fruit.  Most importantly, however, The Heirloom Gardener, amplified by Mary Azarian’s brilliant woodcut images, encourages us to upset the apple cart of mass production and commodification and look back to the many streams of land-based wisdom still available to us in order to find a better way forward. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. John Forti is a garden historian, historic garden… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1238019664 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 16:45:56 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15173897/a-scientists-quest-for-natures-next-medicines-with-dr-cassandra-quave 00:56:57 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by medical ethnobotanist and Emory professor, Dr. Cassandra Quave who shares with us the very personal story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants. In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Quave belives our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our greatest opportunity to discover new life-saving medicines needed in the medical challenges of our time – including pandemics and rising anti-biotic resistance. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by me… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1234032262 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 16:54:08 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15156859/grow-now-gardens-as-climate-activism-with-emily-murphy 00:54:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her 2018 book Grow What You Love, is joined this year by Grow Now: How We Can Save our Health, Communities and Planet One Garden at a Time. With the 2022 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reporting on the impacts, adaptations, and vulnerabilities and dangerous disruption of climate change on our natural systems - disruption affecting billions of people and millions of species - there is an ever greater urgency to act on all levels. Emily Murphy joins us this week to highlight the importance of our gardens as really immediate and direct points of climate activism - contributing to saving our planet one garden at a time. Listen In! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educat… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1229878462 Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:46:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15141537/the-international-rescue-committees-new-roots-program-base-in-denver-non-profit-regeneration-now 00:55:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week is a timely and rich with agency conversation on gardens by and for refugee populations. Areti Athanasopoulos is a Denver, Colorado-based landscape architect. After many seasons studying and working around the world, and in collaboration with the International Rescue Committee’s New Roots program, and while in Denver with Denver Urban Gardens, she has recently founded her own non-profit entity focused on gardens for and by refugee populations: ReGeneration Now, continuing her focus on creating gardens for and by refugee populations. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week is a timely and rich with agency conver… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1225769704 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:09:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15122820/restorative-economics-flower-house-detroit-detroit-black-farmer-land-fund 00:56:36 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Lisa Waud is a collaborative, large-scale floral and installation artist who likes to invite people in to enjoy flowers, and from there into a conversation about the world, she was the artist behind the 2015 Flower House Detroit – a floral phenomenon in downtown Detroit. Erin Preston-Johnson Bevel is an unschooling mom, a full-time lecturer at Howard University, and a “recovering lawyer” putting her legal experience to work advocating within her Detroit community. She serves on the board of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which came together with two other longstanding food advocacy groups - Keep Growing Detroit and Oakland Avenue Urban Farm - to create the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund. The DBFLF was co-founded by Erin, Jerry Hebron, Tepfirah Russian, and Dr. Shakara Tyler; the Fund officially launched on Juneteenth 2020. Both Lisa and Erin are advocates and voices for community, integrity, and a healthy regrowing and interweaving of community and land, of growing thoughtfully and intergenerationally into our collective futures.  This is the story of that time when Flower House Detroit decided its next chapter was in the embrace of the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund, where it would grow up into a Children’s Sensory Garden for the community. Having just completed Black History Month and just entered Women’s History Month, this seemed like the perfect - floral and restoration - tale to share forward. Enjoy. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Lisa Waud is a collaborative, large-scale floral … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1221811024 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:59:48 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15103260/winter-gardens-in-conversation-with-uk-based-photographer-andrew-montgomery 00:55:22 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Deep into the Winter season, with February’s full moon behind us, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation with British-based garden photographer Andrew Montgomery, about his new book Winter Gardens. Photographed by Andrew, written by Clare Foster of House & Garden UK and published by Andrew’s new imprint, Montgomery Press, Winter Gardens, in evocative images and crafted words, celebrates the very specific, spare, sometimes hard, nuanced and moody, beauty of cold-climate gardens in this season. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Deep into the Winter season, with February’s full… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1217620537 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 18:04:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15087259/conserving-plant-diversity-with-the-nature-conservancy-and-the-native-plant-trust 01:01:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener I know. With that in mind and with the hope and the knowledge of the agency we as Gardeners hold in this world, I’m so pleased to be in conversation this week with two men who’ve been working and studying this very aspect of our world, in their place. In July of 2021, they along with their organizations published a report entitled “Conserving Plant Diversity in New England”. This report was conceived by author William Brumback, Director of Conservation Emeritus of the Native Plant Trust. The report is co-authored by Brumback and my two guests this week, The Nature Conservancy’s Director of Conservation Science for the Eastern United States, Mark Anderson, and Michael Pientadosi, current Director of Conservation for the Native Plant Trust. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. Reports from around the globe in the last 25 year… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1213521847 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:31:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15072885/plantlife-international-in-conversation-with-ceo-ian-dunn 00:52:49 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants, and fungi.  With more than 30 years in this work, Plantlife’s members and team of dedicated conservation experts work with landowners, businesses, conservation organizations, community groups and governments, pushing boundaries to save our rarest flora and ensure familiar flowers and plants continue to thrive.  From roadside verge rewilding, to no-mow May, to RuneScape and meadow protection, to conservation campaigning and policy work, Plantlife’s CEO Ian Dunn is with us this week to share more about their goals and strategies – including the important work being done by home gardeners to integrate these goals into the fabric of our everyday lives and spaces. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Plantlife International is a British conservation… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1209224491 Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:25:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15055296/coming-to-fruition-fruition-seeds-with-petra-page-mann 00:57:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Coming up on Cultivating Place this week, we’re in conversation with a new generation seed farmer, Petra Page-Mann. Petra is a co-founder with her husband Matthew Goldfarb of Fruition Seeds, a young seed company with a big calling. Fruition is a team of 12 humans "cultivating over 300 varieties of certified organic vegetables, herbs & flowers to surround us all with beauty & abundance in short seasons. In the heart of the Finger Lakes of western New York, unceded Haudenosaunee/Seneca lands, Fruition shares the seeds as well as the tools, inspiration & insight for growing ourselves as well as our gardens, especially those in short growing seasons. They are currently transitioning to being an employee-owned company, and they grow about 60% of their own seed, sourcing the rest primarily from other regional organic seed growers. Fruition is cultivating and learning from an ecosystem-like web of people and places growing and sharing relational seed and seed knowledge at human scale as a direct response to the industrial scale commodification of seed as a way of imagining a new (old) way forward. Listen in. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Coming up on Cultivating Place this week, we’re i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1204832233 Thu, 27 Jan 2022 18:08:07 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15039268/larner-seeds-for-the-california-landscape-judith-larner-lowry 00:54:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A Time, founded in 1977 and still growing strong, based in Bolinas, CA.  Judith is the author of "Gardening with a Wild Heart, Restoring California’s Native Landscapes at Home," published by the University of California Press in 1999, as well as the author of "The Landscaping Ideas of Jays, A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden," published by The UC Press in 2007.  Combined, Judith's seed work, writing, and advocacy have laid and continue to lay critical groundwork for the ecological gardening precepts we are hearing more and more about today, including from the likes of Dr. Doug Tallamy, whose best-selling book “Bringing Nature Home” urging far more planting of native plants in our home gardens to help offset catastrophic biodiversity loss, was also published in 2007. If there is such a thing as an elder statesman, Judith is such an elder seedswoman, and she joins us this week on Cultivating Place to share more about her growing work journey.  Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud,  iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Lar… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1200175972 Thu, 20 Jan 2022 18:07:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15022055/best-of-the-palestine-heirloom-seed-library-vivien-sansour 01:01:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On Cultivating Place this week, as we revisit a Best Of conversation with Vivien Sansour, the heart and head behind The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library aiming to revive and share forward Palestinian seed heritage and a culture of care and gratitude. Vivien was born in Palestine and spent her early childhood in Bethlehem before she and her family immigrated to North Carolina when she was ten. She writes: “The seed, the seed, the seed….for what is it but a continuation of ourselves? Aren’t we all seeds?" – Vivien Sansour Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. On Cultivating Place this week, as we revisit a B… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1195909030 Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:11:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/15005857/johnnys-selected-seeds-independent-home-and-market-grower-seed-supplier 00:56:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes look at an independent seed source well-known to gardeners and market growers throughout North America: Johnny’s Selected Seeds. We are in conversation with current CEO Dave Melhorn and Lauren Giroux, Director of Product Selection and Trialing Research. Johnny’s stewards one of the largest in-ground seed-trialing programs in the United States. For over 48 years Johnny's Selected Seeds has dedicated to "helping families and friends to feed one another.” Now 100% employee-owned, Johnny’s offers organic seed, F1 hybrid, open-pollinated, and heirloom seed varieties. "Johnny's does not knowingly sell genetically modified seeds"; nor do they "breed new varieties using genetic engineering." Their breeders use "traditional, painstaking methods of natural crossing to create hybrid seeds that are healthy and safe.” They are proud to be "one of the nine original signers of the Safe Seed Pledge,” in 1999, an initiative of the Council for Responsible Genetics. Listen in this week! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mail… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1191526318 Thu, 06 Jan 2022 18:07:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14992633/the-seed-keepers-with-diane-wilson 00:58:33 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no To welcome the new year, Cultivating Place stays with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane Wilson writer, gardener, emeritus executive director of Dream of Wild Health and, more recently, emeritus executive director of The Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Diane has long interwoven her gardening and her advocacy work with her writing, and her first novel, The Seed Keeper, was published by Milkweed press in 2021. Join us for more about Diane’s journey of discovering, sharing, and celebrating seeds and Indigenous cultural recovery through the knowledge and history that seeds hold, and the future they make possible. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. To welcome the new year, Cultivating Place stays … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1187389996 Thu, 30 Dec 2021 18:05:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14981144/new-year-brave-new-seed-kellee-matsushita-tseng 00:58:57 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome/seeding for the new year that will be, I am joined by seed person and agent of growing transformational change - Kellee Matsushita-Tseng. Known as Brave New Seed online, Kellee is a Yonsei (fourth generation) queer, Japanese-Chinese American, as well as the farm-garden assistant manager at the UC Santa Cruz Center for AgroEcology, and a member of the seed research and growing collective Second Generation Seeds, which specializes in seeds of the Asian Diaspora. Kellee’s work focuses on sharing, education, and building a movement towards seed sovereignty as a means of cultivating community health and working for collective liberation. Kellee serves on the board of directors at the National Young Farmers Coalition and also organizes with the Asian American Farmers Alliance. Her leadership voice is one of clarity, integrity, and communal intention for a new year - and growing the world we want to live in. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As a farewell to the calendar year that has been,… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1183400365 Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:00:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14970868/conservation-of-generosity-relationships-gary-paul-nabhan 01:05:32 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan Brother based in Patagonia, Arizona. He is the author of a host of books covering a diversity of plant-relationship topics – from pollinators to food policy, to love letters to his favorite landscapes. The heart of his work is fed by his own lifelong enchantment with the world – and his nearly lifelong commitment to healing wounded landscapes from a primary objective of consciously conserving healthy relationships on all levels and planes. In all he does, Gary examines our human relationships to plants and places not just as a matter of important pragmatics but as a matter of generosity, spirit, and poetics - I cannot think of a better time of year to share forward that exact kind of enchantment and hopeful work. Gary Paul Nabhan joins Cultivating Place this week - listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural e… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1179097033 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 18:40:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14956959/welcoming-dormancy-sabbatical-devorah-brous 00:58:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is a time of dormancy for the plant and animal kingdoms alike. While it may look relatively still and quiet, it is in fact a period of unseen activity worth looking at and learning from – for perspective and possibilities. This is our final offering for your garden-based preparations for the Winter Solstice officially occurring on December 21st at a little before 8 am Pacific/11 am Eastern time. The Solstice is not just a date and time, but a turning and inflection point in our annual cycle of growth. In honor of that cycle, and its periods of rest – daily, weekly, annually, and throughout cycles of years - we’re joined today in conversation with farmer, gardener and community advocate, Devorah Brous – with whom we explore the importance of rest, dormancy and sabbatical as a way to refuel, to rethink, and to rejuvenate in all health and creativity for our work and cycles ahead. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is a time of do… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1174864330 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 18:03:35 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14939759/trophic-cascades-with-poet-gardener-camille-dung 01:04:11 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As another offering to all of you in your gardens tending toward the Solstice in just a few weeks on December 21st, this week we are in conversation with award-winning poet and life-long home gardener Camille Dungy. Camille is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP, 2017), winner of the Colorado Book Award, and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History (W.W. Norton, 2017), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Camille is also a University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado. In our conversation, we explore the intertwining of poetry, gardening, life, and trophic cascades in each of them. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As another offering to all of you in your gardens… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1170700351 Thu, 02 Dec 2021 18:35:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14915806/the-three-tree-geeks-of-san-francisco-their-covidtreetour 01:07:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Mike Sullivan is the author of "The trees in San Francisco", Jason Dewees is a horticulturist and author of "Designing with Palms", and Richard Turner is a designer, consultant, the Emeritus Editor of Pacific Horticulture, and co-editor of "Trees of Golden Gate Park". The three men got together in the early days of the Pandemic and put their imaginations and frustrations to work creating self-guided, pop-up, sidewalk-chalked, walking tours of the trees of the various neighborhoods of San Francisco. In the process, and at a time of high rates of emotional isolation for many, the three tree geeks got a city of people outside into the fresh air to meet and know better their tree neighbors all around them. With a whole new winter of pandemic complications and complexities in front of us, and in introducing urban-dwelling humans to their trees, and these trees to their people, the "three tree geeks of San Francisco” - and all our other knowledgeable tree folk doing likeminded work in the world – provide us a journey lesson on looking, listening and living. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Mike Sullivan is the author of "The trees in San … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1166798059 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 19:31:52 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14902224/thankful-for-farmers-matthew-martin-pyramid-farms 00:58:34 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week I’m thankful for my own garden, of course, but also for the good fresh food grown for all of us by so many hard-working souls wherever you are, from San Francisco to Cincinnati to Syracuse, and here where I am. Pyramid Farms is a small organic, integrated family farm of humans led by Matthew Martin and Lisa Carle. Famous for the carrots, and also growing more than 30 varieties of fresh produce and flowers year-round, living with the soil, with flora and fauna and the seasons of their place, and with the 365 days a year of hard work that farming is. They wouldn’t do life any other way, and as Matthew and Lisa say – you can taste the love. It’s a good week for this kind of gratitude. Listen in! Photos courtesy of Pyramid Farms, all rights reserved. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week I’m thankful for my own garden, of cour… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1162545445 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:33:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14880665/kinship-belonging-in-a-world-of-relations-with-gavin-van-horn-rowen-white 01:03:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As a gardener and a human in this exact time on our planet, and in this specific season of the year - a season of communal gathering and thankfulness at the tail end of the growing season in the Northern Hemisphere, this week we celebrate Family, Kin, & Kinship. We are joined in this conversational celebration by Gavin Van Horn and Rowen White sharing with us about a new multi-volume collection of written voices entitled "Kinship Belonging in a World of Relations" out now from the Center for Humans and Nature, based in Chicago. Gavin is the creative and executive director for the Center for Humans and Nature and served as co-editor on the Kinship series with Robin Wall Kimmerer and John Hausdoerffer. Rowen is a seed keeper, a mother, and a farmer from the Mohawk community as well as being a passionate activist for Indigenous seed and food sovereignty. She is the educational director and lead mentor of Sierra Seeds an innovative Indigenous seed bank and land-based educational organization located in Nevada city, California. Rowen is the founder of the Indigenous Seedkeepers Network and her essay "Sky Woman’s Garden" appears in Partners the third volume of the five-volume Kinship series. Just like all kinds of gardens, these voices raised together in this uplifting series is all about growing together in this world. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As a gardener and a human in this exact time on o… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1158310129 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:29:47 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14866949/the-wild-seed-project-with-heather-mccargo 00:56:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Fall and early winter are the perfect time in much of the Northern Hemisphere to plant bulbs, woody shrubs and trees, herbaceous perennials, and perennial vines in the landscape. It is also a good time to seed many spring-blooming native(and non-native) annuals. So, I thought it was just the right time of year as well to chat a little with Heather McCargo of the Wild Seed Project in Portland, Maine. Focused on the relationship between seed grown native plants in cultivated landscapes and reweaving healthy ecosystems across our world, Heather founded The Wild Seed Project and served as its executive Director from 2014 – 2021. She is currently the seed program manager for the project. The Wild Seed Project envisions a landscape where people help re-populate the landscape to be abundant with native plants (primarily grown from seed) so that we can support wildlife, biodiversity, and buffer the effects of climate change. They invite gardeners around the country - the world in fact – to take their rewild pledge committing to working towards including a minimum of 70% seed-grown native plants in your garden. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Fall and early winter are the perfect time in muc… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1153857649 Thu, 04 Nov 2021 17:02:46 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14853573/garden-history-hindsight-the-garden-museum-london-with-director-christopher-woodward 00:57:18 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gardens and history through the lens of a historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden History through the interpretive lens of how we preserve, interpret, codify and share gardens past and present. We are in conversation with Christopher Woodward, Director of the Garden Museum in London. Garden history & Garden hindsight come together in the museum and in this week's conversation, helping us to interpret and plan for our shared Garden futures. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gard… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1149688207 Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:18:11 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14840148/green-sacred-space-historic-mt-auburn-cemetery 00:58:45 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Just in time for Samhain, All Hallow’s Eve, and Day of the Dead observances, this week we explore the sacred, green and communal space of a cemetery – specifically Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in the 1830s, Mt. Auburn was the first of a genre of so-called Garden Cemeteries in the U.S. Horticulturist Dave Barnett is the Emeritus President and CEO of Mt. Auburn. After nearly 30 years of growing the ecological, horticultural, and cultural legacy of Mt. Auburn, Dave retired this past September. I caught up with him earlier this year to explore the lessons of Mt. Auburn at this time. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Just in time for Samhain, All Hallow’s Eve, and D… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1145567470 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:34:40 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14826816/growing-flavor-past-present-chef-dave-smoke-mccluskey-corn-mafia 00:54:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we’re in delicious conversation with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and a grower/producer of such traditional corn products as Longhouse Selections’ hominy, masa, and grits. Based in South Carolina, Dave is an Indigenous foods educator and member of the Mohawk Nation, who invites us all to think about the history of the ingredients in our food, especially those originating from the Native American lands we in the US live on. Dave’s belief in the power of flavorful, real food stems from a very basic and lifelong curiosity about his peoples’ culinary past and trying to determine not only “What has been lost?”, but also how to re-envision, and imaginatively recreate a more accurate, flavorful, and probable culinary narrative for the past, present, and future. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we’re in delicious… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1141959187 Thu, 14 Oct 2021 22:35:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14812626/the-greenhorns-envisioning-a-more-fertile-future-with-severine-von-tscharner-fleming 01:00:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy, beginning to consider next season through the lens of the last season, of forward planning, this week Cultivating Place explores some big thinking for our shared future in conversation with Severine Von Tscharner Fleming, one of the women featured in The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1137718282 Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:42:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14797544/cp-10-07-2021-web 01:00:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, Cultivating Place is joined this week by photo journalist Saxon Holt. The sole photographer on more than 30 garden books, Saxon is also owner of the PhotoBotanic Garden library and director of the Summer-Dry Project. Saxon’s most recent book, a collaboration with writer Nora Harlow, is Gardening in Summer-Dry Climates, plants for a lush, water-conscious landscape, published by Timber Press in 2020. The vision of the Summer-Dry Project is that "in the midst of tumultuous climate change, it’s all the more important that gardeners be stewards of the land, attuned to the local environment on behalf of all creatures. The Summer-Dry Project provides gardeners in summer-dry climates authoritative plant information and inspiring photos that encourage sustainable garden practices." Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our second episode focusing on the inspiring b… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1133788522 Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:32:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14783875/high-style-dry-gardens-with-designer-daniel-nolan 00:59:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we near the close of a dry, dry season in the generally dry climates of much of the US west, this week Cultivating Place has the first of a two-episode focus on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them. We start off with some high style in dry gardens with garden designer Daniel Nolan, owner of Daniel Nolan Design and author of Dry Gardens, High Style for Low Water Gardens, published in 2018 by Rizzoli Press, and photographed by Caitlin Atkinson. In the opening to his book, Daniel notes that “some of the most successful gardens are not about human’s control over nature, but about how human’s respond respectfully to their surroundings.” Daniel’s work, which is consistently focused on strong design using as little water as possible, covers regions as wide ranging as Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, California and the West Coast generally. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we near the close of a dry, dry season in the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1129913077 Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:20:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14770817/planting-a-bridge-for-our-world-with-ernesto-alvarado 00:54:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Ernesto Alvarado is a Mexican-born, Southern California-based native plant and seed teacher and student. He is currently the Native Plant Nursery Assistant at the Riverside Corona Resource Conservation District where he specializes in seed and native plants for gardening and greater connection to the world around him – and us. While I told you that last week was the second in a two-part series in the sacred and much-needed ritual and ceremony that the seasonal cycles of our plants and gardens – I would say this is a bonus third episode in this vein. I think you will agree. As a native plant and seed teacher and student, Ernesto’s greatest hope is to have his work serve as a green and living bridge for people to develop a deeper connection to the life all around them. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Ernesto Alvarado is a Mexican-born, Southern Cali… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1125833056 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 17:15:35 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14757076/seasons-of-our-joy-with-rabbi-arthur-waskow 01:00:36 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no September, October, and November are traditional harvest celebration months in the Northern Hemisphere from variations on Octoberfests to those around the idea of Thanksgiving. The ancient Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot is celebrated from the full moon on September 20th to September 27th this year, with the Autumnal Equinox occurring on the 22nd. This week on Cultivating Place we enjoy the second of two conversations on the sacred every day and the sacred in the seasonal. We are joined from Philadelphia by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, co-founder of The Shalom Center, which equips activists and spiritual leaders with awareness and skills needed to lead in shaping a transformed and transformative Judaism that can help create a world of peace, justice, healing for the earth, and respect for the interconnectedness of all life. A long-time activist for social and environmental justice, Rabbi Waskow is also the author of Seasons of our Joy, which brings reverent renewal to the ancient agricultural and seasons-based celebrations of the Abrahamic religions. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. September, October, and November are traditional … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1121821975 Thu, 09 Sep 2021 16:59:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14741370/lenses-on-the-everyday-seasonally-sacred-with-london-based-artist-and-photographer-kristin-perers 01:01:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd here in the Northern Hemisphere, we are deep in a period of time full of sacred seasonal celebrations and observances based on the cycles of the moon, of the sun, and of the growing season ending with harvest and simultaneously beginning again with the dormancy of seed and soil. Late summer to early fall holds the Islamic and Jewish New Year celebrations, early harvest celebrations and a shift in the light and color, in the garden foods and flavors, fragrances and flowers of our days. This week Cultivating Place offers out the first in a two-part series on the sacred of the everyday in our seasonal garden lives, the first in conversation with London-based photographer, artist, and Vicar's wife Kristin Perers, whose works and days are intentionally grounded in bits of nature and color all around her. Kristin shares her abiding passions and what the everyday sacred means in action in ways both small and large, in ways that are seasonally grounded by year and seasonally oriented across her life. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on Septemb… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1117685221 Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:21:55 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14728339/capradio-garden-sac-states-summer-concert-series-w-jennifer-reason-nicole-mcdavid 00:55:44 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On Cultivating Place this week we celebrate (and say farewell) to the fullness of summer at its calendar-end with Labor Day weekend in full view here in the US. We do this with some moving and wonderful sounds of a summer concert series not only held in but inspired by a remarkable urban garden: the Capital Public Radio Garden at Sacramento State University, a garden of food, habitat, gathering, season, and meaning in California’s capital city of Sacramento, California. We’re in conversation with Jennifer Reason, musician, CapRadio’s Mid-Day Classical Music Host and Summer Garden Concert Director, and with CapRadio’s Garden Coordinator Nicole McDavid. They - the women, the concert series musicians and music, the garden itself - all remind us of just how much one garden can hold, no less than the breadth and depth of our planet’s seasonal faces and our incredibly diverse expressions of humanity – in grief, in community, and in joy. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. On Cultivating Place this week we celebrate (and … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1113284893 Thu, 26 Aug 2021 16:23:13 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14708970/innovate-integrate-ecological-lessons-from-the-human-built-brooklyn-bridge-park-wrebecca-mcmackin 01:15:31 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In our final episode focusing specifically on ecologically rich and contributing gardens, we learn some innovative lessons in built ecology. Literally. Rebecca McMackin is an ecologically focused horticulturist and garden designer. For the past decade, she has been the Director of Horticulture for Brooklyn Bridge Park, an ecologically minded landscape constructed from the soil up on repurposed post-industrial shipping piers jutting out over New York’s East River beneath the iconic namesake bridge. Rebecca and her horticultural team care for the diversity of life within this 85-acre parkland organically and with an emphasis on habitat creation for birds, butterflies, and soil microorganisms – as well as visiting humans. Rebecca introduced me earlier this year at the Metro Hort Group’s annual Plant-O-Rama event, and I have had the pleasure of hearing her speak several times since then. Rebecca joins us this week to share more about rebuilding ecology where you can – and, she notes, if they can do it on concrete shipping piers over the East River in New York City – we can all do it on our own terms and in our unique conditions too. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our final episode focusing specifically on eco… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1108926175 Thu, 19 Aug 2021 17:25:22 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14693043/lawns-into-meadows-with-owen-wormser 00:57:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no At a time when our gardens large and small often feel more important than ever, I think our focus on exactly what our gardens contain and consist of is also more important than ever. In this second in a three-part celebration of gardens that offer back more than they consume, I’m pleased to be speaking this week with Owen Wormser. Based in Western Massachusetts, Owen is the founder of Abound Design, providing design & consulting for regenerative, sustainability-focused landscapes. He is also the co-founder with traditional and clinical herbalist Chris Marano, of the non-profit Local Harmony, focused on encouraging and creating community-driven regeneration. Finally, Owen is the author of a new book entitled Lawns into Meadows, Growing a Regenerative Landscape, out now from Stone Pier Press. Owen joins us to share more on his deep belief in the planet’s tendency towards abundance. Listen in. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. At a time when our gardens large and small often … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1104763237 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 17:24:49 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14681370/the-order-of-energy-a-field-trip-to-the-regenerative-urban-food-forest-of-matthew-trumm-oroville-ca 00:57:40 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In the heat of the dog days of summer, Cultivating Place celebrates the farms and gardens striving to not draw down resources but to contribute resources back into the world's flow of energy: fro providing shade, food, and retreat, these kinds of gardens are also replenishing rather than drawing down or polluting groundwater, they are sequestering carbon rather than spewing it, they are growing soil and mending the torn fabric of habitat corridors one urban, suburban, and rural home garden at a time. Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby passed in Sebastapol, CA in 2016, but not before he lit a spark and passed a metaphoric mantle to today’s guest, Matthew Trumm. Matthew went on to learn under Dr. Elaine Ingham, among other mentors and has for years been learning from the wisdom of the land itself – first near rural Berry Creek, California before the #CampFire in 2018, and for the last handful or years also on an urban lot in Oroville, CA. I was introduced to Matthew by CP producer Matt Fidler, who mentioned over Zoom one day in lockdown: "you have to see this guy’s backyard – it’s amazing!" And so today, Matt Fidler and I take you on an actual field trip to the energetic, permaculture-regenerative-urban agriculture-food forestry-and indigenous-land-stewardship informed back yard paradise Matthew Trumm tends and grows with. He is a teacher, designer, activist, and a Gardener with a capital G. Over the course of our conversation and tour, we begin in Matthew’s house, head out to the garden itself and end up with our heads and hearts in the stars of all that is possible through our garden relationships. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In the heat of the dog days of summer, Cultivatin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1100690305 Thu, 05 Aug 2021 16:57:31 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14669680/the-land-beyond-the-trees-the-betty-ford-alpine-gardens-in-vail-colorado 00:54:57 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we continue our high-elevation garden view, now in Vail, Colorado at The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, leaders in the research and conservation of North American alpine plant communities. The Alpine Zone has long been one of interest to plant enthusiasts worldwide across time and space for the sheer admiration for and interest in these rugged and resourceful plants and wildlife who’ve evolved to endure and thrive in the Alpine’s extreme conditions – extreme cold, wind, sun, heat, drought and/or snow and ice. As the conditions of our generous planet change with the climate crisis, the Alpine Zones around the globe become a last refuge for plants and wildlife migrating in search of cooler conditions. As a result, the Alpine Zone is of great interest to researchers looking not only preserve the beauty, diversity, and integrity of these highly sensitive environments, but also looking to them for lessons on adaptation for us all. Nicola Ripley is the Executive Director and Nick Courtens is the Curator of Plant Collections at The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens. Nicola and Nick join me this week in a conversation about their high-elevation enthusiasm and efforts. For more information and many more resources and images, please see the full post at www.cultivatingplace.com under the Podcast tab. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we continue our hi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1096452940 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:12:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14657200/joy-wonder-at-8000-elevation-isa-cattos-mojo-gardens-woody-creek-co 00:56:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we gain a little perspective with a lot of altitude as we begin a two-part series on 'Gardening at Elevation’. Isa Catto is a mother and partner, a fine and textile artist, a gardener, and a writer. Isa’s multi-faceted gardens at 8,000 ft in Woody Creek, Colorado are rooted in generations of family. in connection to community, and in love of place. Her gardens feed her family, her creativity, her soul, and her desire to contribute. Isa’s gardens, called Mojo Gardens are featured in Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, 2021) on which I collaborated with photographer Caitlin Atkinson. I will be joining Isa in Aspen, Colorado this summer as the Jessica Catto Dialogues speaker for the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies on the 11th of August. Isa joins us this week to share more about her artistic garden life story. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we gain a little p… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1092242275 Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:29:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14644481/botanize-globally-grow-locally-with-the-uks-gardener-traveler-writer-hannah-gardner 00:58:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Hannah Gardner is a gardener, writer, and mother. She is a garden designer and plantswoman with a passion for traveling the world to learn about and meet plants and their communities in their places, from Estonia to the Canaries, Northern Israel to the wildflower meadows of the United Kingdom, where she makes her home. Her longtime column in Gardens Illustrated entitled "The Outsider”, which ran from 2017 to 2020 is a trove of adventurous armchair plant and garden travel. The botanical lessons she's learned globally inform her organic horticultural and floriculture work right at home and give inspiration to all of us for better botanical holiday making ourselves. She is a firm believer in the 'Imaginative Possibilities' born of broadening our horizons through travel. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Hannah Gardner is a gardener, writer, and mother.… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1088143510 Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:20:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14620757/adventurous-design 00:58:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no 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 of designers in 2021. David’s LA home garden and his perspective on adventurous gardening and design are featured in Under Western Skies, on which I collaborated with photographer Caitlin Atkinson. David joins Cultivating Place this week, and as he shares in our conversation: "Garden building is civilization-building,” it should be done with creativity and integrity at all levels. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. David Godshall is a landscape architect, gardener… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1084004026 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 17:13:39 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14602985/finding-solace-in-the-soil-gardens-and-gardeners-of-the-amache-japanese-american-prison-camp 01:02:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Bonnie J Clark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book "Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache" (University Press of Colorado, 2020) traces six field seasons of her research and immersion into the lives of Japanese Americans held at the Amache prison camp, which was active on the high plains of Colorado from 1942 to 1945. With Amache already designated a National Historic Landmark, and with bills before both the US House of Representatives and the Senate to make Amache a part of the National Park Service, Bonnie joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about what it means to be a gardener and a human. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. Bonnie J Clark is a professor of anthropology at … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1079683261 Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:05:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14589559/cultivating-intention-traditional-ecological-knowledge-ali-meders-knight-mechoopda 01:00:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California, a mother of five, and a traditional basketweaver in Chico, CA she is also a tribal liaison working to form partnerships for federal forest stewardship contracting and tribal forestry programs authorized in the 2018 Farm Bill. She has been a Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) practitioner for over 20 years, creating, collaborating on, and leading decolonized environmental education and land restoration projects with Chico State University and the City of Chico. In 2009 she envisioned and helped to manifest a unique 17-acre interactive food forest and interpretive park in North Chico known as Verbena Fields. This restoration of a small slice of the degraded watershed and its native plants works to heal land while educating the larger human community about the rich ecological heritage of the Mechoopda people. As Ali expresses in all aspects of her cultivating practice, especially as the founder of the Chico Traditional Ecological Knowledge Program: "Wassa Honi Mep! (Keep your heart's intentions good!)” In her specific place, she is a model for cultivators everywhere in traditional ecological knowledge providing a saving grace for returning health and prosperity to lands, economies, and communities. As we enter in July, join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda tribal member wh… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1075092565 Thu, 24 Jun 2021 17:00:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14575028/new-naturalism-with-iowa-based-plantsman-kelly-norris 00:55:40 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no At a time in the gardening world when we're hearing the phrase "ecologically functional gardens" and "ecological landscape design" with great regularity, Cultivating Place is pleased to be joined this week by Kelly Norris. Kelly is an avid gardener, a former nursery owner and plant breeder, and an award-winning author. Based in Des Moines Iowa, he is recently retired from his role as Director of Horticulture and Education at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden and his newest book, "New Naturalism, Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden” (Cool Springs Press, 2021) helps all of us to demystify what an ecologically functional and still incredibly beautiful and gratifying home garden means. It’s a perfect listen for the long hot gardening days of the Summer Solstice season. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit ww.cultivatingplace.com. At a time in the gardening world when we're heari… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1070733328 Thu, 17 Jun 2021 17:44:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14554644/cp-06-17-2021-web 00:56:25 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Jessica Walliser is an avid gardener and professional horticulturist – working in the business of plants and gardening since the tender age of 15. As she has matured as a gardener, so too have her understandings and passions, and she now considers herself a devoted bug lover as well as a devoted plant lover because, you know, these two groups of lives we love are wholly interdependent. Jessica is a former garden podcaster, a co-founder of the online gardening resource Savvy Gardening, and the author of many books reflective of her journey and knowledge, including "Good Bug, Bad Bug"; "Attracting Beneficial Insects to your Garden", and most recently, "Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies” (Artisan Press, 2020). Listen in this week as we discuss how far we’ve come in our mainstream gardening practices this past 50 years, from companion planting to cover cropping, interplanting to the joys of watching predatory robber flies help control Japanese beetles. We also cover the even greater joy of knowing that more life in your garden equals more health in your garden life. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Jessica Walliser is an avid gardener and professi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1065950824 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:31:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14538529/growing-gently-honeysuckle 00:53:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Through the many twists and turns of life, hers including a life-threatening battle with an auto-immune disorder and lung cancer, Claire’s organizing ethos has become: “Go Gently." An environmental advocate before turning to flowers as her life path, Claire is also the author/co-creator of a new book entitled “The Healing Power of Flowers”, which looks around the year at the meaning, magic, and medicine of 80 flowers. The book, photographed by Eva Nemeth, is an update and expansion on the Victorian Language of flowers, with seasonality and sustainability at its heart. As we in the Northern Hemisphere approach the Summer Solstice, Claire shares more about her gentle garden and floral life journey. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Through the many twists and turns of life, hers i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1061356816 Thu, 03 Jun 2021 17:04:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14522835/slow-flowers-for-summer-with-debra-prinzing 00:54:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Debra Prinzing is the founder and leader of The Slow Flowers Society – She joins Cultivating Place in this first week of summer (after Memorial Day in the US and before the Summer Solstice in a few weeks) to share more about the many facets of her passion for being a voice for the floral world. Debra Prinzing is the founder and leader of The Slow Flowers Society. As a Seattle-based writer, speaker and leading advocate for American Grown Flowers, Debra’s many Slow Flowers-branded projects have convened a national conversation that stimulates consumers and professionals alike to make conscious choices about the flowers in their lives. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Debra Prinzing is the founder and leader of The S… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1056780256 Thu, 27 May 2021 16:35:11 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14509544/cp-05-27-2021-web 01:05:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a team of plant folks known as Refugia is growing connection among places and people from their beautifully designed native plant gardens and radiating out from those. This week, Cultivating Place is joined by Refugia founder Jeff Lorenz, by stewardship manager Esther Scanlon, by Lead Project Manager Ronnie Ludwig, and Melissa Nase Refugia’s lead Landscape Designer and Greenhouse Manager. The team shares the process and ethos of Refugia as they design, create and help to steward functional landscapes that are ecologically beneficial, beautiful, and resilient - and perhaps most importantly, connective. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a tea… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1052222698 Thu, 20 May 2021 16:49:48 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14490396/fearless-gardening-with-the-danger-gardens-loree-bohl 00:56:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Loree Bohl is the Portland Oregon-based founder and visionary gardener behind the well-known and well-loved Danger Garden Blog. In true Danger Garden fashion, Loree’s new book Fearless Gardening empowers us all to be bold, break the rules and grow what you love. Loree joins Cultivating Place this week to empower all of us with a sense of boldness in the garden. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Loree Bohl is the Portland Oregon-based founder a… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1048221892 Thu, 13 May 2021 17:12:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14478217/being-radicle-a-conversation-wlandscape-architect-christie-green-santa-fe-nm 00:53:28 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we have the second of a two-part series celebrating the publication of Under Western Skies in conversation with landscape architect Christie Green, of Radicle landscape architecture based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Radicle as in the first intrepid and primary growing root of a seedling and the idea of advocating for fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we have the secon… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1043900770 Thu, 06 May 2021 16:55:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14464312/gardens-of-soul-under-western-skies-with-photographer-caitlin-atkinson 00:56:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no CAITLIN ATKINSON is a photographer of places, spaces, and all things botanical. She has been my partner this past 2 + years in creating our new book Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast, publishing on May 11 of 2021. Conceived by Caitlin, the book is really an expression of our shared love for the places and plants and plantspeople of the West crafting garden spaces of soul, and this week on Cultivating Place, Caitlin joins me in conversation to discuss more deeply this passion project of ours. Listen in - the views are stunning (and soulful). Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. CAITLIN ATKINSON is a photographer of places, spa… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1039323448 Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:00:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14447183/hunger-heartache-and-our-identities-healed-in-the-vegetable-garden-claire-ratinon 00:54:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Claire Ratinon is a gardener, a writer, and a passionate advocate for the growing a food no matter where you live or how small a space you might live it. She herself first fell in love with growing her own food while living in a one-room flat. Born in Mauritius and raised in England, her horticultural work is deeply interested in how the hunger and heartache of our times, and of re-finding or rooting our own senses of identity starting in the vegetable garden. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Claire Ratinon is a gardener, a writer, and a pas… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1034699554 Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:47:35 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14433645/seasonal-elemental-calling-all-tomatomaniacs-with-scott-daigre 01:06:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It’s spring in the northern hemisphere (even though snow is still making visitations to parts of North American right now), and gardeners across the hemisphere are itching to get started with their summer vegetable gardens. That age-old and annual question of “when warm summer crops can safely be planted outside" is already high on peoples' lists of garden excitements and anxieties. Cultivating Place is joined this week by the leader of an event and author of a book both known as TOMATOMANIA. Scott Daigre is the owner of PowerPlant Garden Design in Ojai California, and he is a dedicated home gardener and self-proclaimed tomatomaniac. It's earth week and among the garden’s earthiest pleasures are these succulent summer fruits. Scott joins us from his home and trial garden in Ojaiwhere he is deep into the planning for the warm season vegetable garden and all her delights. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It’s spring in the northern hemisphere (even thou… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1030234816 Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:18:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14415072/in-advance-of-california-native-plant-week-a-conversation-with-cnps 01:34:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no April 17 through 24th 2021 is California Native Week, designated by the California State Legislature in 2010 as an annual celebration of the fantastic diversity of plants on whom this large expanse of unique and uniquely beautiful land and history rests in so many ways. The California Floristic Province is one of the Biodiversity Hot Spots on Earth and as the most populous state in the US, California also has an incredible diversity of humans making their lives here as well. In honor of these plants and their communities, Cultivating Place speaks this week with members of the California Native Plant Society community to chat about what CNPS is, and what it is striving to grow into more fully. It is a small, candid look into how the environmental conservation world generally is meeting this moment in time through the lens of one organization. In looking back over the course of this last year, and many years and decades prior, there is renewed clarity and urgency around the environmental world generally having quite a bit of acknowledging and resetting to do for itself and for the greater benefit of the human and greater than the human world around us. It is in that spirit that I am joined today by CNPS staff member Liv O’Keefe, Senior Director of Public Affairs; by Cris Sarabia, Conservation Director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula land Conservancy and the chair of the board of CNPS, a volunteer position; and finally, by John L. Sanders, Founder, and Director of the Delphinus School of Natural History, who is a CNPS community member and volunteer consultant for the society. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. April 17 through 24th 2021 is California Native W… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1025503822 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:46:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14402287/reimagining-the-foodshed-amyrose-foll-the-virginia-free-farm 00:53:20 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Amyrose Foll is a mother, a farmer, and a big thinker. As the executive director and founder of the multifaceted Virginia Free Farm at Spotted Pig Holler in Kents Store Virginia – she is looking to reimagine the foodshed of her world – and ours. As Spring takes hold and the warm growing season greens our northern Hemisphere gardens and farms, Amyrose sees a greater foodshed model within reach. Join Cultivating Place in conversation with Amyrose this week! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Amyrose Foll is a mother, a farmer, and a big thi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1020660481 Thu, 01 Apr 2021 22:36:51 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14390028/talking-about-a-revolution-a-foodscape-revolution-with-brie-arthur-1 00:55:25 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Just in time for spring and that itch we gardeners - new and long time - have to get the summer vegetables into the ground, Cultivating Place revisit a favorite conversation with grow-your-own revolutionary, Brie Arthur – author of the "Foodscape Revolution" and "Gardening with Grains". Her enthusiasm will get your season growing – join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Just in time for spring and that itch we gardener… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1016228149 Thu, 25 Mar 2021 17:07:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14374905/gardens-in-time-space-laura-ekasetya-former-director-lurie-garden-chicago 00:56:46 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Having just moved across the seasonal threshold of the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, this week we continue our focus on land and land and ecology-based garden projects – this time in conversation with horticulturist and plantswoman Laura Ekasetya. I spoke with Laura late last season checking in with her on her work as Director and Head Horticulturist at the famed Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park -landscape architecture by Gustafson, Guthrie & Nichol and planting plans by Piet Oudolf. Laura’s decade at the Lurie Garden ended in January of 2021. Listen in this week! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Having just moved across the seasonal threshold o… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1010537758 Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:53:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14361469/the-perfect-earth-project-edwina-von-gal 00:57:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Here we are – mid-way into Women’s History Month, one year after the publication of The Earth in Her Hands. In honor of these two thresholds, this week on CP we offer out a conversation with one of the extraordinary women working in the world of plants featured in the book: Edwina Von Gal - a landscape designer based on New York’s Long Island. Having designed landscapes for the rich and famous in the New York area it was midway through her career that Edwina had an epiphany about the potential impact for the better or worse of how gardens are cared for in our world. In order to help tilt the balance back toward gardens large and small being positive contributors to the life, health, habitat and biodiversity of our world – she founded The Perfect Earth Project – promoting toxin free lawns and landscapes for the people, pets, and the planet. In the last few years, Edwina has expanded her mission with advocacy known as 2/3rd for the birds – in collaboration with the research of Dr. Doug Tallamy – urging all residential and campus landscapes to dedicate 2/3rd of their plantings to be native plants for habitat value and to commit to going toxin free. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Here we are – mid-way into Women’s History Month,… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1004926777 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:14:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14347350/balanced-systems-thinking-tek-with-lorena-gorbet-maidu-summit-consortium 01:00:07 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in the balance of natural systems. Lorena Gorbet is a Mountain Maidu elder in Northeastern California, a mother, a basket weaver, a land restoration activist, and an educator. She joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about the balanced systems thinking of the traditional ecological knowledge of her culture. Listen in! The Maidu Summit Consortium’s mission is "to preserve, protect, and promote the Mountain Maidu Homeland with a united voice. The Maidu Summit Consortium envisions re-acquired ancestral lands as a vast and unique park system dedicated to the purposes of education, healing, protection, and ecosystem management based upon the Maidu cultural and philosophic perspectives, as expressed through traditional ecology.” Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/998595925 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:06:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14331332/season-extending-in-the-garden-with-niki-jabbour 00:53:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It’s the first week of March and true spring let alone summer is still a ways off for many of us. This week on Cultivating Place, we lean into the last aspects of the winter season and head North - to learn more about the enthusiastic and intrepid deep winter and season extending gardening of the inimitable Niki Jabbour. Her abundant year-round gardening on the 45th parallel will inspire anyone. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. It’s the first week of March and true spring let … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/993006568 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:49:50 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14316186/gardener-growing-uprooted-with-page-dickey 01:00:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we’re back stateside to visit with a longtime gardener and garden writer also engaged in a new level of relationship with her new plot of land. Page Dickey joins us to talk about the leaving and grieving of one garden, and the getting to know and love a new garden and its nature – all of which grows her. Her new book “Uprooted" is out now. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re back states… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/988207303 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:10:57 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14293452/to-the-forest-with-midori-shintani-and-dan-pearson 01:01:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Hokkaido, a northern Island of Japan to celebrate an amazing intertwining of the wild and cultivated, the sustainable and the regenerative (for land and people) at The Tokachi Millenium Forest in Hokkaido, Japan. Dan Pearson is a landscape and garden designer for whom an understanding of plant ecology along with an appreciation for natural landscapes inspires his acclaimed designs around the world – including that at the Tokachi Millenium Forest. Midori Shintani is the head gardener at the Tokachi Millennium Forest. Having trained as a gardener and horticulturist in Japan and Europe, she joined the Tokachi Millennium Forest team in 2008. Under her care, the Millennium Forest and its gardens merge a “new Japanese horticulture“ with the surrounding wild nature. Midori was featured in my first book The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants (Timber Press, 2020). Dan and Midori's inspiring and collaborative work at the Tokachi Millennium Forest really speaks to gardeners around the globe who want to reconnect with the ecological life of the land, plants and animals on that land. The Tokachi Millennium Forest and its many gardens exemplifies a new naturalistic gardening which integrates culture, aesthetics, and horticultural traditions of both east and west. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we trave… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/983547844 Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:13:01 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14280487/lunar-new-year-a-conversation-with-taiwanese-american-plantsman-eric-hsu 00:55:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On February 12th, the Lunar New Year begins. Celebrated by Asian cultures across the globe, this week Cultivating Place speaks with Eric Hsu, a plantsman of Taiwanese descent particularly interested in following the threads of history back to the many Asian and Asian immigrant contributions to western horticulture in the US. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. On February 12th, the Lunar New Year begins. Cele… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/979209478 Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:48:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14264346/making-a-life-with-melanie-falick-1 00:58:01 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week to welcome February we revisit a favorite conversation from our last season - a good reminder to mind the way you spend your days - added together they are what will grow your life. ENJOY! Melanie Falick is a maker of many things by hand, and in her work from knitting to gardening, welding to baking, she explores the connection between what we do with our hands in our own lives and our quality of life and sense of wellbeing. In 2015, Melanie left her 15-year corporate career in the publishing world without a completely clear sense of what she would - or wanted to do- next. Her intuition told her that whatever it was, it would involve engagement with the handwork – knitting, sewing, time in the garden – that she loved, but that she had moved away from personal direct contact with in her career. In the course of making many things following her “retirement" of sorts, it while crafting a simple folded paper box, a box of incredibly basic utility, that she had an epiphany: “in a circuitous way” in all her creative making, she was trying to connect to her own survival – and that impulse was tied inextricably to her own sense of self, capability, and connection to others – ancestors, descendants, community. In these past few months of shelter in place, I think many of us, male, female, old and young across the globe, have had a renaissance in our own psyches of this same impulse. Melanie and I actually chatted in February, before the shut-down, which seems prescient somehow in hindsight, and I think speaks to the fact that this growing global dissatisfaction with what we have been told “success” is, has been in the making for a very long time. Enjoy this conversation about her newest book, “Making a Life, Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live” (Artisan Press, 2019), in which she explores how others have been manifesting this impulse and leading lives of great connection and meaning long before Covid-19, and how they might be role models for any one of us in making our own lives. This week to welcome February we revisit a favori… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/974557507 Thu, 28 Jan 2021 18:03:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14248614/tu-bshevat-new-year-of-the-trees-with-karen-flotte 00:54:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we lean into the spirit of the season and the traditional Jewish festival Tu B’Shevat, or New Year of the Trees in conversation with Karen Flotte, with the Mitzvah Garden at the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis, Missouri. The New Year of the Trees seems like a perfect celebration in this time of dormancy just before the sap begins rising in most living things looking towards spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we lean into the s… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/970040605 Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:46:31 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14234614/big-ideas-and-public-horticulture-marylynn-mack-south-coast-botanical-garden-socal 01:09:53 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no MaryLynn Mack is a renaissance woman and leading voice in the world of public gardens today. After beginning her career in the Navy, her experiences have taken her in many directions, including 16 years in Phoenix at the Desert Botanical Garden, and now as Chief Operating Officer of the South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes, Ca. In the last decade, she has served on the American Public Gardens Association (APGA) Board of Directors and is the current Vice President, the incoming President, as well as the inaugural Chair of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEAS) Committee. She joins us to share more about her journey and some of her big-hearted, brave IDEAS for horticulture and public gardens as we move forward. She believes that public gardens can save us all. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. MaryLynn Mack is a renaissance woman and leading … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/965810641 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:32:30 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14219815/homegrown-hope-doug-tallamy-envisioning-a-homegrown-national-park 00:55:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our FRESH STARTS series in conversation with a long established friend in the gardening world, Doug Tallamy. His latest book Nature’s Best Hope envisions a fresh look at and commitment to rethinking how much of suburban United States sees, uses, and cultivates their places, with an eye toward a Homegrown National Park. Join us! All photos courtesy of Doug Tallamy and www.HomegrownNationalPark.org Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our F… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/961136560 Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:32:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14201332/garden-future-forward-the-botanic-garden-tim-johnson-jamil-depeiza-kern 00:55:55 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no To kick off the new year, Cultivating Place offers out the first in what will be an ongoing and intermittent series exploring Fresh Starts in our horticultural and gardening world. Following up on last week’s show with Duron Chavis, in which we explored some of the obstacles, hobbles and even failures of imagination in the botanic and garden world, this week we dive into a botanic garden endeavoring to imagine a fresh start to what they do, how they do it, and to whom it is of greatest service. The Botanic Garden at Smith College opened its well-endowed collection in 1895 and celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2020. This week’ we’re are in conversation with Tim Johnson Director of the Garden going on 4 years now, and Jamila dePeiza-Kern, a student in her Junior year at Smith and involved with the garden since the earliest days of her freshman year. As these two share in our conversation, the Botanic Garden at Smith College, the original design for which was created by Frederick Law Olmsted, is a venerable university-based botanic garden striving to meet the needs of our times with intelligence, heart and imagination. Join us to hear more on Cultivating Place this week. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. To kick off the new year, Cultivating Place offer… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/957229507 Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:05:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14188558/gardening-out-loud-with-duron-chavis 01:08:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In honor of the losses, griefs, revisions, and transformations in our world this last year, and in honor of the hopes we all hold in our gardens and our hearts for 2021 – we welcome today the muscular voice and vision of Duron Chavis. Duron is an urban farmer, community activist and advocate in Richmond, Virginia. His passionate voice for the power of gardening and people is loud and clear in our times. Join us to hear more on Cultivating Place this week. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of the losses, griefs, revisions, and tr… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/953597536 Thu, 24 Dec 2020 17:44:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14181431/good-medicine-with-sayaka-lean-of-the-herb-pharm 00:55:12 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In this first week of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, Cultivating Place speaks this week with medicinal and habitat gardener Sayaka Lean of the Herb Pharm in Southern Oregon. Informed by her own Japanese cultural gardening traditions, Sayaka is the lead gardener of the Herb Pharm’s public medicinal plant display garden (the Botanical Education Garden), where she cultivates more than 500 native and non-native medicinal plants from around the world. Sayaka engages the garden as well in community collaborations with United Plant Savers, whose work is to protect and raise awareness about the medicinal plants of North America, and as a Flagship Farm for the Oregon Bee Project/Atlas out of Oregon State University. It is good medicine for the season. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In this first week of winter in the Northern Hemi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/949565266 Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:21:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14168367/imagine-a-conversation-with-amber-tamm 00:58:34 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In honor of the Solstice on December 21st, Cultivating Place speaks this week with Brooklyn-born farmer/horticulturist/floral designer, activist, and daughter, Amber Tamm. Amber’s journey and work invite us to Imagine so much more in our gardened world. Listen In! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of the Solstice on December 21st, Cultiv… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/945113878 Thu, 10 Dec 2020 17:49:55 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14153348/something-wild-composed-for-winter-with-hort-pott 00:58:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we continue our winter greening cheer in conversation with Todd Carr and Carter Harrington of Hort and Pott, a botanical studio in Upstate NY dedicated to embracing the seasons, celebrating the natural world through handcrafted botanical works, and reimagining the relationships between people and the natural world through botanically driven design. You won’t want to miss this cozy winter fireside chat encouraging us all to awaken the sublime as we welcome winter. Listen in next week! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Podcast and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we continue our wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/940977112 Thu, 03 Dec 2020 22:18:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14129934/a-handful-of-gratitude-fortitude-teresa-sabankaya-the-posy-book 00:55:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week Cultivating Place kicks off December with a flourish in conversation with Teresa Sabankaya of the Santa Cruz-based Bonny Doon Garden Company and author of "The Posy Book – garden-inspired bouquets that tell a story" just in time for seasonal winter festivities and their greening and gifting. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week Cultivating Place kicks off December wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/936640918 Thu, 26 Nov 2020 18:34:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14112660/112620-seed-lessons-on-transformation-vivien-sansour-the-palestine-heirloom-seed-library 01:00:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Join us this week on Cultivating Place for our final episode in the Seed Change series. We are in conversation with Vivien Sansour, heart and head behind The Palestine Heirloom Seed Library aiming to revive and share forward Palestinian seed heritage and culture of care and gratitude. Vivien was born in Palestine and grew up in Bethlehem and then North Carolina. She writes: “The seed, the seed, the seed….for what is it but a continuation of ourselves? Aren’t we all seeds?" – Vivien Sansour Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Join us this week on Cultivating Place for our fi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/932425045 Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:50:57 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14083948/cp-11-19-2020-web 00:55:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, the third in our 4 part Seed Change series with Cheryl Birker, Seed Conservation Program Manager at California Botanic Garden and with whom we go even deeper into what it means to seed bank a biodiversity hotspot in our world. It’s all about the beauty in the tiniest of details. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, the third in our … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/928316806 Fri, 13 Nov 2020 00:45:04 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14064853/seed-banking-a-floristic-province-naomi-fraga-of-california-botanic-garden 00:56:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our Seed Change series with Naomi Fraga, research assistant professor of Botany at Claremont Graduate University and Director of Conservation Programs at the California Botanic Garden dedicated to conserving the rich biodiversity of the native plants of California through field research, seed banking, and education programs. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we continue our S… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/923937343 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 18:28:38 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14037327/seed-change-seeds-and-their 00:56:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we continue our Seed Change series - a nod to faith and a vote for the next growing season. We’re joined this week by Chris Bolden-Newsome and Owen Smith Taylor - of Sankofa Community Farm at Bartram's Garden and True Love Seed respectively. Farmers and culture keepers, the two protect and steward seed and seed stories - encouraging others to steward their own stories and their own seeds as well. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we continue our Se… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/919743517 Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:16:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/14011775/best-of-hope-springs-growing-flowers-from-seed-clare-foster 00:53:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In this season of colliding urgencies and not infrequent dismay - the garden offers so many lessons. Among the largest of these, brought to you in the smallest of things, is the hope proffered by seeds. And seed keepers. To kick off a new series on seed keepers of the world, this week we revisit our conversation with the UK’s Clare Foster, Garden Editor of House & Garden, UK. A gardener, author, and seed-sower herself, Clare’s newest book (with co-author, with Sabina Rüber) is "The Flower Garden: How to Grow Flowers From Seed” (Laurence King, 2019). It’s fun, colorful, and easy - a vote for hope and the future. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In this season of colliding urgencies and not inf… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/916183706 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:25:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13994097/beauty-balance-southwest-high-desert-gardens-with-judith-phillips-albuquerque-nm 01:02:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by award winning landscape designer Judith Phillips of Albuquerque NM. Her Design Oasis, characterized by creative thinking, designing gardens, and growing plants born of her wider place in the high desert has been shifting ideas of beauty and meaning for other gardeners of the American Southwest since the 1980s. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by aw… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/910867399 Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:45:04 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13955757/viriditas-attachment-gardening-with-sue-stuart-smith 00:55:31 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we speak with British gardener and psychiatrist/psychotherapist Sue Stuart-Smith, whose book, "The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature", and very explicitly of gardening, explores her many years of research and findings on the physiology of the brain and the creativity and connections cultivated in the brain when gardening. In this work “of science, insight, and anecdote,” Sue demonstrates that “our understanding of nature and its restorative powers is just beginning to flower.” Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we speak with Brit… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/907220695 Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:02:04 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13939388/tools-for-building-a-home-in-this-world-homeless-garden-project-santa-cruz-ca 01:13:56 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we continue our exploration into creativity born of the garden –I share with you today a story and model for creativity coupled with kindness. On Cultivating Place, I talk a lot about gardens, gardeners, and gardens as intersectional agents and spaces of powerful potential & positive change in our world. While I see this as true in most of my interviews, this episode with the regenerative humans of the Homeless Garden Project in Santa Cruz brings this truth to life more poignantly and tangibly than most. In July, thanks to the many efforts and encouragement of Homeless Garden Project Board Member Dana Rhine, I had the great pleasure of making a full-day field trip to the Homeless Garden Project in Santa Cruz, California, where for 30 years a team of dedicated citizens and professionals have been putting the diverse lessons and heart of gardening to work to help offset the many challenges of homelessness in our world. John traveled with me and through the course of the day, we joined morning circle time with the staff and trainees, toured the current garden – full of flowers and fruit, migrating monarchs, seasonal vegetables and an abundance of fresh air, a stone’s throw from the ocean. I had the good fortune to speak with all the people there in the Homeless Garden Project working Farm that day – from long-time trainees to new ones - timidly, skeptically, hopefully - looking into the program; from the volunteer cook who every Tuesday brings the staff and trainees a morning snack and then prepares a hearty lunch for them to share together family-style, to the full -time year-round staff, to CSA shareholders – and you will hear a bit from all of them in this episode. Throughout, Executive Director Darrie Ganzhorn and others speak a lot about "structure” - and the symbolic importance of structure is not lost on me. Structure is simultaneously the form of a physical home, a container for and within our gardens, a scaffolding on which we try to build our days, our families, and our lives. The layers of language – such as the denotation and connotation of structure – comes up for me here. How important it is that we understand the impact of all of our words – how certain words or phrases, when we unpack them or really hear them – for instance the difference between hearing “homeless person” versus “person experiencing homelessness” - changes the power and the emphasis completely. It is never too late to listen to and hear our own word choices more clearly – how they confer dignity, respect, and equity, versus not doing any these things. How we tend our words is a direct manifestation of how we tend ourselves, our own gardens, and one another. The Homeless Garden Project is modeling structure and structural integrity - how we support, shelter, and hold each other up in the world. It is never too late to grow a better world. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we continue our exploration into creativity bo… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/902921719 Thu, 01 Oct 2020 17:17:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13920545/cp-10-01-2020-web 01:02:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we kick off October with a dive into creativity – the way gardeners harness it, riff off it, and share its results forward with the larger world – and I am so pleased that our first creative in this exploration is the potter Frances Palmer, a previous guest on the program, one of the 75 women featured in my book The Earth in Her Hands, and a fantastic inspiration for any gardener maker out there. In a world that needs a great deal from us right now, we can almost never go wrong by igniting our creativity. Frances is a gardener, a knitter, a cook, a bee-keeper, and a businesswoman. Her one of a kind hand made pottery is a joy to the eye, the hands, and the heart – as full of personality as it is functional and beloved around the world. Thirty years into her career, her first book – Frances Palmer: Life in the Studio inspiration and lessons on creativity publishes October 6th by Artisan Press. She joins me this week from her studio in Connecticut. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we kick off October with a dive into cr… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/898996525 Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:25:47 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13902318/trusting-the-nature-of-our-gardens-selves-with-camilla-jorvad 01:04:39 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Camilla Jorvad is a photographer, a gardener, a mental health and rewilding habitat gardening advocate based on the Danish Island of Aero. Her home-farm shared with her husband and children is known as Sigridsminde – meaning in memory of Sigrid – the gardener who first established a garden on this coastal bluff before her father and mother-in-law took on its care, prior to Camilla and her family partnering with the land soon after the birth of their eldest child. The partnership led to a deeper understanding and measurement of health - physical and mental - for Camilla, the land, and her family of humans and more-than-humans. Listen in. It is a story of restoration, redemption and trusting the true nature of our places and our selves. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Camilla Jorvad is a photographer, a gardener, a m… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/894876574 Thu, 17 Sep 2020 16:59:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13885147/cp-09-17-2020-web 00:57:33 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Most gardens, gardeners, and gardening seasons are deeply informed first and foremost by a deep love of PLANTS. Of space, and design, and color, and food, and refuge and beauty, YES, but for many of us it all starts with a love of plants. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by an international gardener, designer, and horticulturist Wambui Ippolito - tracing the history of our own plant love, and the legacies and deeply human histories of the plants we all love. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Most gardens, gardeners, and gardening seasons ar… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/891214156 Thu, 10 Sep 2020 22:12:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13868926/sculptura-botanica-with-dustin-gimbel 00:59:18 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Dustin Gimbel is a landscape designer and large scale outdoor ceramic artist inspired by the botanical world and based in Southern California. In a new episode in our ongoing series about the art of the garden and art in the garden, I am pleased to welcome Dustin this week to share more about his journey working his way through school and some notable internships to this summer installing his first public exhibitions at the Sherman Library and Gardens in Corona Del Mar and the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. Art mirrors nature is some interesting and unexpected ways! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Dustin Gimbel is a landscape designer and large s… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/886991101 Thu, 03 Sep 2020 17:04:17 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13854870/back-to-school-special-the-little-gardener-with-julie-cerny 00:55:31 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In this very unusual back-to-school season here in the US, we’re joined this week by Julie Cerny a gardener, an outdoor enthusiast, and educator. Her new book, The Little Gardener: Helping Children Connect with the Natural World (out now from Princeton Architectural Press) provides some unusual and inspirational guidance for parents, grandparents, caregivers, and educators who want to help children explore the natural world through gardening. Part how-to, part teaching tool, and part inspiration, The Little Gardener shows gardeners of all ages how to envision and build their garden together by making the process an adventure to be treasured, with much to learn along the way. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In this very unusual back-to-school season here i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/883045261 Thu, 27 Aug 2020 17:06:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13839536/growing-food-and-community-urban-farming-institute-boston 00:57:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we’re focused on growing food and community when we’re joined by Patricia Spence, President and CEO of the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, working to grow more food, train more farmers, and build healthier communities everywhere. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we’re focused on g… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/879137803 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:29:57 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13824526/the-lifelong-gardener-toni-gattone 00:55:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Toni Gattone is a businesswoman, a master gardener, and a lifelong gardener of Italian descent. After struggling herself with a bad back, and the limitations this put on her as an active human and gardener, she began to research the idea of adaptive gardening. Based on all that she discovered and her own experiments and adaptations in her small Bay area garden that she shares with her husband, she wrote: “The Lifelong Gardener – Garden With Ease and Joy at Any Age” (Timber Press, 2019). In the late stages of our current growing season here in the Northern Hemisphere, and in my own mid-to-late middle age, I figure there is never a better time than now to learn more about adapting to the realities of where we are, who we are, and how to make the best of both. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Toni Gattone is a businesswoman, a master gardene… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/875206939 Thu, 13 Aug 2020 16:35:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13806460/collaborative-growing-farmer 00:59:40 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Farmer Meg is an urban beekeeper turned flower and market grower turned farmer. Meg has been farming in NJ and NY city and state for almost a decade. Just over two years ago, she and her partner Neil migrated to upper Schoharie County NY to being to establish Meg’s dream homestead on a former dairy farm. Biscuitwood Farm grows cut flowers, raises egg-layers on pasture, breeds Red Wattle pigs, and has small-scale soap enterprise wit their dairy goats. She is instrumental to a regionally based collaborative known the 607 CSA, and she believes firmly in abundance, the generosity of the garden, and that collaborative growing is the future. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Farmer Meg is an urban beekeeper turned flower an… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/871355398 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 17:01:46 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13783841/black-culture-horticulture-black-in-the-garden-with-colah-b-tawkin 00:54:21 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we get a booster shot of energy and inspiration as we enter the dog days of summer when we’re joined by Colah B. Tawkin – the voice and vibrant life force and distinctive VOICE of the Black in the Garden podcast - where Black Culture Meets Horticulture. You will not want to miss her - listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we get a booster s… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/867280339 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 17:06:31 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13768084/the-transformational-garden-art-of-jasna-guy 00:56:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Jasna Guy is an artist whose visionary and liminal work is based in close observation of the plants and pollinators – specifically bees – of her garden and natural environments. Her ethereal representations bring heightened understanding and awareness to the miraculous life processes - like bee and flower pollination and pollinator co-evolution and mutual interdependence - going on around us everyday everywhere. Listen in. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Jasna Guy is an artist whose visionary and limina… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/863200573 Thu, 23 Jul 2020 17:03:21 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13751018/the-imagination-and-artistry-of-the-garden-curator-colleen-southwell 00:57:49 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In the throes of high summer, Cultivating Place continues to explore the fruits of the imaginative nature of the garden. We begin a two-part series on visual artists deriving their inspiration from the garden and its diverse life, and going from there. Jennifer is joined this week by the Australian three-dimensional paper artist Colleen Southwell whose finely drawn, detailed, and designed compositions pull from the natural and the fantastical. Part herbarium or entomological specimen displays, part pure imagination, whimsy and fine, fine handwork. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In the throes of high summer, Cultivating Place c… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/859073614 Thu, 16 Jul 2020 17:02:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13727250/botanical-mythology-and-the-imagination-of-plants-with-matt-hall-nz 00:56:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no A good read often plumbs the depths of imagination, for Matthew Hall - gardener & researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand – it’s the Imagination of Plants he’s interested in, especially how and why plants are or are not positioned as central characters in the most important cultural narratives and mythologies of societies across time and place. Matthew joins Cultivating Place this week to explore Botanical Mythology. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. A good read often plumbs the depths of imaginatio… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/855048397 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 16:51:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13711242/writing-wild-25-women-poets-mavericks-ramblers-with-kathryn-aalto 00:56:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we take a summer amble with British-based Californian Kathryn Aalto – a historian, designer, and writer whose most recent book Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks offers all of us some much needed outdoor adventure with some admirable women of words. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place we take a summer a… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/850946986 Thu, 02 Jul 2020 16:54:44 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13695942/botany-geography-history-power-at-the-heart-of-the-garden-w-jamaica-kincaid 00:58:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In honor of the Fourth of July, Cultivating Place is joined this week by the acclaimed writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid, whose work "My Garden (Book)" published in the late 1990s, explores how the length and depth of human history - beautiful and terrible - is a narrative fully legible in our gardens and horticulture of today. As a citizen gardener, she sees potential redemption for humanity in kindness and in striving to honor one another the best we can - in our places, with our plants. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of the Fourth of July, Cultivating Place… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/846785671 Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:57:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13676082/summer-garden-gems-the-melon-with-amy-goldman 00:56:03 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Amy Goldman is a gardener, author-artist, and longtime advocate for seed saving, plant breeding, and heirloom fruits and vegetables. Her mission has for many years been to celebrate and catalog the magnificent diversity of standard, open-pollinated, heirloom varieties, and their conservation. Her books include The Compleat Squash – A Passionate Growers Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes, and Gourds, and most recently The Melon, which will entice and educate, whether you are a passionate gardener, a locavore, or simply delight in the inherent beauty and evanescence of the fruits of the vine. Illustrated by Victor Schrager, and many years in the making, The Melon is a comprehensive and definitive work that includes portraits in words and photographs of 125 extraordinary varieties, expert advice on cultivation and seed saving, and delicious melon recipes. Amy Goldman’s mission is to celebrate, catalog, and conserve standard, open-pollinated fruit, and vegetable varieties. As we come back she shares more on how her newest book The Melon encourages everyone to grow, enjoy, save seed from and share forward the great diversity of melons and watermelons, plants whose ancient wild progenitors hail from Africa, India, and Persian regions and whose histories are intertwined with the people of these places and their diasporas across time and space. Listen In. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. Amy Goldman is a gardener, author-artist, and lon… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/842545873 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:02:05 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13638175/for-the-love-of-bugs-insects-with-entomologist-nadia-ruffin 00:54:43 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Nadia Ruffin is an entomologist, gardener, and educator. She is the founder of Agricademy Inc and Urban Farm Sista based in Cincinnati, Ohio. A lover of bugs and all insects and life forms since she was very young, Nadia loves sharing this admiration and curiosity, with youth especially. In 2018 the Cincinnati City Council honored Nadia’s farming and agriculture initiatives, the primary focus of which is to share her knowledge and passion for the biological world and all that it offers to us in the way of endless and healthy wonder, food, beauty, and learning. It's National Pollinator Week and this week we revisit our 2019 conversation with Nadia to explore this wonder and this work. As a bonus - we talk about the importance of meeting and managing our own irrational fears. Enjoy! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Nadia Ruffin is an entomologist, gardener, and ed… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/838356538 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:16:22 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13619746/wedding-season-with-philippa-craddock-uk 00:55:06 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no June is traditionally a month in which many, many weddings are celebrated with family, food, and FLOWERS. With many of these weddings on hold this year due to Covid-19, we catch up with floral creative Philippa Craddock to talk about the business of floristry, the sustainability of it on several levels, and to reminisce about the lovely florals - from epic arches to the most romantic of bouquets which Philippa designed for the Lovely Meghan Markle and her Prince Harry, now the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. The world was watching this wedding for a variety of reasons, I was watching for the flowers and they did not disappoint. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. June is traditionally a month in which many, many… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/834093400 Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:38:51 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13603398/unabashed-gratitude-delight-structures-of-care-ross-gay-poet-gardener-1 00:57:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Ross Gay is a gardener - he is also an award-winning poet and a professor. A founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a food justice and joy project, Ross joins Cultivating Place this day of Thanksgiving to share more about his garden life journey, the structure of care it represents, and the unabashed gratitude and delight it brings him daily. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Ross Gay is a gardener - he is also an award-winn… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/829915549 Thu, 28 May 2020 17:08:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13582476/making-a-life-with-melanie-falick 00:57:33 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Melanie Falick is a maker of many things by hand, and in her work from knitting to gardening, welding to baking, she explores the connection between what we do with our hands in our own lives and our quality of life and sense of wellbeing. In 2015, Melanie left her 15-year corporate career in the publishing world without a completely clear sense of what she would - or wanted to do- next. Her intuition told her that whatever it was, it would involve engagement with the handwork – knitting, sewing, time in the garden – that she loved, but that she had moved away from personal direct contact within her career. In the course of making many things following her “retirement" of sorts, it while crafting a simple folded paper box, a box of incredibly basic utility, that she had an epiphany: “in a circuitous way” in all her creative making, she was trying to connect to her own survival – and that impulse was tied inextricably to her own sense of self, capability, and connection to others – ancestors, descendants, community. In these past few months of shelter in place, I think many of us, male, female, old, and young across the globe, have had a renaissance in our own psyches of this same impulse. Melanie and I actually chatted in February, before the shut-down, which seems prescient somehow in hindsight, and I think speaks to the fact that this growing global dissatisfaction with what we have been told “success” is, has been in the making for a very long time. Enjoy this conversation about her newest book, “Making a Life, Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live” (Artisan Press, 2019), in which she explores how others have been manifesting this impulse and leading lives of great connection and meaning long before Covid-19, and how they might be role models for anyone of us in making our own lives. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Melanie Falick is a maker of many things by hand,… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/825214627 Thu, 21 May 2020 17:03:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13561548/growing-weed-in-the-garden-johanna-silver 00:55:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Johanna Silver is a gardener, writer and editor, formerly the garden editor at Sunset Magazine and regular contributor to Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes & Gardens, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She is the author of The Bold Dry Garden, on the garden and legacy of famed California famed plantswoman Ruth Bancroft. This week she joins us to talk about her newest book: Growing Weed in the Garden, a No-Fuss, Seed-to-Stash Guide to Outdoor Cannabis Cultivation out now from Abrams Press. Cannabis has been legal for medicinal purposes in California since the late 1990s, and in late 2016, California voters approved the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, thereby legalizing the recreational use of cannabis. The use, sale, and possession of cannabis over .03% THC remains illegal under federal law, however. That said, according to a recent report on NPR: Thirty-three US states currently allow for some form of sale and consumption of marijuana. And of those, more than 20 states have designated the cannabis industry as essential during the coronavirus outbreak. Cannabis sativa is a plant which is equally loved and reviled, common and commonly misunderstood. As the rest of our warm season crops – tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and the like come online in the garden – this week we’re joined by Johanna to help us demystify this warm season crop and very specific Weed. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Johanna Silver is a gardener, writer and editor, … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/820496458 Thu, 14 May 2020 17:59:47 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13538130/for-the-love-of-roses-with-rose-devotee-fallon-shea 00:58:57 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Fallon Shea is a self-described rose devotee and roseologist currently making her life with roses in Southern California as a grower, designer, artist, and writer. She says that roses found her when she was lost at the age of 19, “tricked her into gardening” then, and have kept her happily under their spell as their devoted student ever since from pruning 10,000 roses in the field, to savoring their tart hips, to incorporating all stages of them into her floral designs and all parts of them into her artwork. She joins us this week to talk about some specific roses she loves, general rose care, their enigmatic colors, and the magic of them in any diverse and lively garden. Join Cultivating Place this week for all this and more. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Fallon Shea is a self-described rose devotee and … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/815656981 Thu, 07 May 2020 17:15:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13517577/the-comfort-of-roses-with-michael-marriott-of-david-austin-roses 00:55:49 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Cultivating Place kicks off the month of May - with two-episodes focused on ROSES – we start off this week before Mother’s Day here in the U.S., with a visit to David Austin Roses in conversation with Michael Marriott, senior rosarian and at David Austin for more than 35 years. He considers the rose among the most beloved of garden plants and as such a very conduit for awareness and care of gardens, plants, and our world more generally. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. Cultivating Place kicks off the month of May - wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/810665248 Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:14:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13497390/navigating-by-plants-uli-lorimer-native-plant-trust 00:56:24 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Uli Lorimer is the director of Horticulture for the Native Plant Trust in Massachusetts. His work as a native plant and biodiversity advocate is informed by years of work in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Native Flora Garden, in the woodland garden at Wave Hill in the Bronx and even earlier at the US Botanic Garden. Uli and I met just after we recorded this conversation during the annual conference of the Ecological Landscape Alliance in Amherst Mass where I was the keynote speaker, and now these long weeks later Uli reports that the pandemic has not only brought people to gardening, but an increased interest in native plants, the climate, and an understanding that among what we deem essential at this time – biodiversity and a wholistic resilience are key. His is a garden life journey in which he navigates with plants as his landmarks and it is earth day every day - He joins Cultivating Place this week to share more. Listen In! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Uli Lorimer is the director of Horticulture for t… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/805467187 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 17:05:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13476629/fibershed-growing-a-healthier-economy-environment 00:55:15 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Rebecca Burgess is a gardener, weaver and natural dyer. She is the executive director of Fibershed, the chair of the Carbon Cycle Institute, and the author of two books - her newest is FIBERSHED: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy (Chelsea Green, 2019). She joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about her vision behind the cooperative, community-based Fibershed movement she is helping to grow for an innovative and integrated approach to textiles, our environments, and economies. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Rebecca Burgess is a gardener, weaver and natural… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/801892243 Sat, 18 Apr 2020 23:08:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13461372/seedkeeper-ira-wallace-the-earth-in-her-hands-series 00:54:25 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, a BEST OF in which we revisit our seedkeeping series. IN this one, we’re joined by plantswoman, seed advocate, farmer and author Ira Wallace of the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and the Heritage Harvest Festival in Charlottesville VA. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, a BEST OF in whic… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/794692897 Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:25:05 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13435954/the-kitchen-garden-revival-with-nicole-johnsey-burke-of-gardenary 00:54:44 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no For many, the orders to stay at home are also encouraging permission slips to GARDEN. On Cultivating Place this week, we are joined by Nicole Johnsey Burke of Gardenary.com, an online platform teaching and supporting people wishing to dive into new or expand existing Kitchen Gardens. The author of soon to be published Kitchen Garden Revival, and host of the Grow Your Self Podcast, Nicole is enthusiastically teaching people and showing people how to create gardens where once there were none - for food, for health, for joy. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. For many, the orders to stay at home are also enc… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/789282265 Thu, 02 Apr 2020 16:55:47 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13416163/for-the-wild-with-ayana-young 00:59:09 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no While we head into another month under social distancing and self-isolation restrictions in order to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, we close out our women’s history month interview conversation with Ayana Young founder and host a For The Wild Podcast and Projects. Her work and words remind us we are never in fact alone. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. While we head into another month under social dis… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/784124146 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:14:48 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13394468/cultivated-the-elements-of-floral-style-with-christin-geall-the-earth-in-her-hands-4 01:00:20 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no So many people have reached out to express how the CP podcast is more important to them than ever. So even as this global crisis continues, so too Women’s History month on Cultivating Place continues. This week with Christin Geall, writer, floral designer, flower farmer, home gardener and author of Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Design, out this week from Princeton Architectural Press. There has never been a better time to be a gardener. Take Care of yourself and your communities, wash your hands, and keep gardening. Together – even distant – we grow. Listen in and share! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. So many people have reached out to express how th… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/779382346 Fri, 20 Mar 2020 02:34:49 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13371976/dr-elaine-ingham-soil-scientist-the-earth-in-her-hands-womens-history-month 01:02:12 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Women’s History month on Cultivating Place continues this week, knowing that radio and new voices are especially important to us all right now. Dr. Elaine Ingham is the founder of Soil Food Web Inc. An early researcher and articulator of the soil food web model, she brings us up to speed on things soil life. Hang in there and Join us! We are committed to being the encouraging and expanding voice in your ear as we all hang in there. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Women’s History month on Cultivating Place contin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/775118677 Thu, 12 Mar 2020 19:51:09 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13345337/andrea-delong-amaya-women-working-in-the-world-plants-2 00:54:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Women’s History month on Cultivating Place continues this week with Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Director of Horticulture at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin Texas. Two great women’s stories with plants in one! The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas at Austin is the botanic garden for the state of Texas. Andrea has been on for over 20 years and has more than 30 years of experience in horticulture, she guides 15 staff in the design and management of 9 acres of native gardens, 275 acres of natural areas and a native plant nursery. She teaches classes in native plant horticulture and writes and presents on her passion for the field widely. She spoke with us late last autumn to share more about the history and work of the center, including it being the legacy of another extraordinary woman, Lady Bird Johnson, and her own enthusiasm for this field of work. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. Women’s History month on Cultivating Place contin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/771301594 Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:19:22 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13321878/tiffany-freeman-clinical-herbalist-women-working-in-the-world-of-plants-series-1 00:53:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we wrap up our series on the healing power of gardens and kick off our Women’s History Month all at the same time. For every episode in March to celebrate the month, Cultivating Place will be highlighting one of the women in The Earth in her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, which officially published just two days ago on March 3, 2020! We start off with the work of herbalist and educator, Tiffany Freeman. Tiffany is a registered acupuncturist, a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, and a registered clinical herbalist, certified by the American Herbalist Guild, She is the co-founder and co-director of the Lodgepole School of Wholistic Studies. She joins us today from her home in Calgary. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we wrap up our series on the healing po… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/767532088 Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:55:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13299471/horticultural-therapy-at-work-matt-wichrowski-msw-htr-rusk-institute-healing-gardens-5 00:55:15 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we start to wind down our series on Healing Gardens and Therapeutic Landscape design, we’re joined by Matthew J. Wichrowski, MSW HTR, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Senior Horticultural Therapist at Rusk Rehabilitation at NYU Langone Health. A longtime educator and practitioner in the field of horticultural therapy. From acute care bedsides to locked ward psychiatric care, plants make everything better. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we start to wind down our series on Healing Ga… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/763850602 Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:18:50 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13273832/the-elder-an-ancient-healing-plant-ally-healing-gardens-4 00:54:09 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week the Cultivating Place series on Healing Gardens dives into one of our most ancient healing plant allies – the Elder – it’s genus, its history, its flowers, and berries, with John Moody, father, homesteader, and author of The Elderberry Book. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. <--break-> We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week the Cultivating Place series on Healing… We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/760083253 Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:22:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13251800/horticultural-therapy-perla-curbelo-puerto-rico 00:55:29 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Even as a girl growing up in Puerto Rico, Perla Sofía Curbelo recognized that the simple act of picking flowers for her mother to put out in their homemade everything more pleasant. This week, we continue our exploration of the healing and therapeutic effects of gardens, plants, and nature. We’re joined in this third conversation by Perla who recently received her Horticultural Therapy Certificate from the Chicago Botanic Garden and puts it to ever greater use in her homeland of Puerto Rico. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Even as a girl growing up in Puerto Rico, Perla S… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/756193639 Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:03:52 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13229108/healing-gardens-series-2-therapeutic-landscapes-network-dr-naomi-sachs-founding-director 00:57:38 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In our second episode in a series around the healing power of plants and gardens in our world, we get an overview of the professional field of Horticultural Therapy and Healing Garden Design on an institutional basis with one of the field’s leading spokeswomen and researchers, Dr. Naomi Sachs, join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In our second episode in a series around the heal… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/752301736 Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:36:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13208266/healing-gardens-series-1-sanctuary-annie-kirk-of-red-bird-restorative-gardens 00:55:11 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we kick off a series on the Healing Power of Gardens, in the series we’ll visit with Dr. Naomi Sachs, of the Therapeutic Landscapes Network, with Perla Curbelo, a recent graduate of the Horticultural Therapy certification program at the Chicago Botanic Garden, with Iain Houghton, at the Chelsea Physic Garden, one of the oldest extant botanical and medicinal plant gardens in the UK (and world), and with Matt Wichrowski, a horticultural therapy clinician and educator in New York City. This week, we start off right where we are - in our own gardens, speaking with P. Annie Kirk about Sanctuary and Healing - beginning with ourselves. The whole world is in need of sanctuary and healing - in varying degrees of urgency and from varying kinds of wounds. Annie Kirk of Red Bird Restorative Gardens starts us off with a conversation about the transformative power of the garden, plants, and nature to offer us healing and health - starting in our own gardens, hearts, and minds. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we kick off a series on the Healing Pow… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/748336753 Thu, 23 Jan 2020 19:07:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13186092/growing-empowerment-frailty-myths-with-erinn-carter-georgia-faye-hirs 00:56:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on CP, we're emboldened to consider our strength and power in the garden and in life generally by Erinn Carter and Georgia Faye Hirsty, two of the co-founders of an organization known as Frailty Myths, based in Oakland, CA. Their mission is to reimagine femininity and build power by excusing ourselves from the implications, hobbles, and damage wrought by mainstream conceptions of what is naturally feminine or naturally masculine (the dominant ethos of what we know as "patriarchy” and as perpetuated by us all). At Frailty Myths, they instead model, ask, encourage us to bring our whole heartfelt power and selves into the work of Cultivating our Places - no matter if that is sailing, gardening, woodworking, or singing. In bringing our open hearts and minds and full power to any situation, we ensure that we are simultaneously cultivating safe and open space for us all. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week on CP, we're emboldened to consider our… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/744500692 Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:12:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13162608/emily-dickinsons-gardening-life-marta-mcdowell 00:53:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no January and mid-winter indeed feels poetic in its spareness, and while many poets come to mind, for me Emily Dickinson stands out for seasonality and abundance in spareness. In 2004 writer and gardener Marta McDowell published Emily Dickinson’s Gardens – a celebration of a poet and a gardener; Following up on new research and her own experience as Gardener-In Residence at the Emily Dickinson Museum, Marta updated her original work with Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life – The Plants and Places that Inspired the Iconic Poet, which was published in 2019. Marta joins us Cultivating Place this week to share more - listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. January and mid-winter indeed feels poetic in its… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/740878549 Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:30:33 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13136283/gardening-news-from-the-capital-the-washington-gardener-kathy-jentz 00:56:34 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It's shaping up to be a big news year for Washington DC, so this week Cultivating Place heads to the capital, but we’re there to check in with the gardeners of the region. Kathy Jentz, AKA The Washington Gardener, is an avid plantswoman, and founder and editor of Washington Gardener magazine, serving Mid-Atlantic gardeners, celebrating 15 years of publication in 2020. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit WWW.cultivatingplace.com. It's shaping up to be a big news year for Washing… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/737444398 Thu, 02 Jan 2020 18:55:26 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13116383/consider-the-lilies-with-naturalist-educator-joe-joe-clark 00:54:12 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we ring in the New Year of this New Decade with the power of 2020 ours for the making, this week we are welcoming gardener, naturalist, educator, husband, and lily-lover Joe Joe Clark. Born and raised Vallejo, California to a garden-loving mother, Joe Joe is a naturalist working on interpretation, public engagement and education, and nearly equal amounts of paperwork for the Napa County Open Space district taking him to both state and county parks in coastal Northern California. He joins us from his home garden to share more about the power of his love for nature - especially the lilies of the field - and the importance of nature literacy. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we ring in the New Year of this New Decade wit… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/734271379 Thu, 26 Dec 2019 20:22:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13100467/seedlings-the-growing-power-of-childrens-literature 01:01:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no From anecdotal and personal experiences, we know that many gardeners in the world are born of early childhood experiences, while I can’t get every child outside, I can conjure the magic of it things almost as powerfully - I can metaphorically feed children, sing to them, and take them on a field trip through the power of reading to them of all of these wonders and their immeasurable value complexity and beauty… this week on Cultivating Place, we explore the Growing Power of Children’s literature to prepare our seedlings of today for their actions of tomorrow. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. From anecdotal and personal experiences, we know … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/731032114 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:23:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13083901/on-flowers 00:55:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Since time immemorial flowers have accompanied humans on our journeys – this week Cultivating Place welcomes the divine Amy Merrick, writer, florist, international traveler, teacher, and a perennial student of all that flowers offer to us in the way of wonder and learning. Her new book – On Flowers: Lessons from an Accidental Florist (Artisan Publishing, 2019) – is as humbly and accessibly luxurious as flowers themselves. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Since time immemorial flowers have accompanied hu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/726903031 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:31:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13061899/cp-12-12-2019-web 00:55:04 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Ken Druse is a gardener and garden writer. This week on Cultivating Place Ken joins us to explore and revel in the scented Side of the garden - the topic of his 20th book The Scentual Garden, Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance, out now. It’s perfect for winter dreaming, planning, and plotting. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Ken Druse is a gardener and garden writer. This w… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/723853252 Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:51:17 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13046156/in-search-of-the-canary-tree-and-other-thoughts-on-resilience 00:56:29 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Dr. Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation and adaptation scientist working to model and communicate how people can adapt at local levels to the GLOBAL climate crisis. Her book In Search of the Canary Tree: The Story of a Scientist, a Cypress and a Changing World is the chosen Book in Common for Chico and California State University, Chico this coming academic year. We revisit our BEST OF conversation with Lauren this week, sharing her journey story and other thoughts on resilience in our changing world, in advance of her appearing at CSU Chico this coming April. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Dr. Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation and adaptat… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/719930890 Thu, 28 Nov 2019 18:46:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/13010559/unabashed-gratitude-delight-structures-of-care-ross-gay-poet-gardener 00:54:49 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Ross Gay is a gardener - he is also an award-winning poet and a professor. A founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a food justice and joy project, Ross joins Cultivating Place this day of Thanksgiving to share more about his garden life journey, the structure of care it represents, and the unabashed gratitude and delight it brings him daily. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Ross Gay is a gardener - he is also an award-winn… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/716465779 Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:22:01 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12992946/talking-about-a-revolution-a-foodscape-revolution-with-brie-arthur 00:58:32 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week – heading swiftly into the winter holiday season good food cooking and baking and communing – Cultivating Place is joined by grow-your-own revolutionary, Brie Arthur – author of the Foodscape Revolution and Gardening with Grains. Her enthusiasm is catching – join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week – heading swiftly into the winter holid… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/712851085 Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:45:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12974818/all-the-herbs-with-sue-goetz 00:54:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we’re settling into the flavors of the Autumn season – and the seasonings we turn to in cooler weather - headed toward the tastes of the winter holidays ahead. We’re joined in this by Sue Goetz, author of A Taste for Herbs. She explores with us how to start from our gardens, from the personality and chemistry of our herbs, and move from there to the deliciousness we want to evoke in the kitchen - rather than the other way around. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we’re settling into the flavors of the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/709313035 Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:52:55 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12958484/firescaping-with-butte-fire-safe-council-and-douglas-kent-author 00:56:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In honor of the one year anniversary of the Camp Fire, Cultivating Place is joined this week by Douglas Kent, author of Firescaping, and Calli-Jane DeAnda and Ben Hart of the Butte County Fire Safe Council to talk about the importance of gardening and gardeners modeling important land care and stewardship ethic in fire country. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. In honor of the one year anniversary of the Camp … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/705989629 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 17:17:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12942413/cultivating-place-mastering-the-art-of-being-a-plantsman-with-matt-mattus 00:55:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no From his "Growing with Plants” blog to his first book "Mastering the Art of Vegetable Growing”, which he researched, photographed and wrote – plantsman Matt Mattus is inspiring. He joins us this week on Cultivating Place to share more on the different twists, turns and fertile offshoots of his plant journey. We talk about his first book AND get some hints about his new book coming out soon on unusual selections for the flower garden too. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. From his "Growing with Plants” blog to his first … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/701156842 Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:16:53 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12921504/garden-cartography-misti-little-the-garden-path-podcast 00:55:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Misti Little is an environmental consultant working in GIS services. As a naturalist, gardener, explorer and fellow garden audio producer, she (and her garden) help us to map where we are – and how to see that more clearly – connecting the dots of ecosystems large and small, public and private, through watersheds and through-hikes right back to our own homes. Misti Joins Cultivating Place this week to share more - listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit cultivatingplace.com. Misti Little is an environmental consultant worki… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/697823728 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:59:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12905675/cultivating-a-gardening-culture-with-home-gardener-tucker-fitzpatrick 00:56:36 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Tucker Fitzpatrick is a home gardener who thinks a lot about how cultural norms and biases directly impact how and why we garden in interesting ways. A father, a lawyer, a gardener and a gardening culture observer, he joins us today from his home and garden in Southern California to share more about his gardening journey and his curiosity and observations on his garden and the broader 'gardening culture.’ Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Tucker Fitzpatrick is a home gardener who thinks … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/693863824 Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:04:51 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12888418/best-of-daring-to-be-wild-we-are-the-ark-with-irish-plantswoman-mary-reynolds 00:56:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Irish plantswoman Mary Reynolds has cultivated a deep love of her place in the mountains of Wicklow, Ireland - in all its complexity and mystery. As a plantswoman and guardian/gardener - she listens to her place and works in partnership with her place to move us all forward towards a better world. Mary is a nature activist, a self-described reformed Landscape Designer, the author of "The Garden Awakening", and the inspiration behind the 2015 movie Dare to be Wild – Cultivating Place revisits this BEST OF episode in celebration of NSPR’s Fall Membership Drive. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Irish plantswoman Mary Reynolds has cultivated a … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/690589822 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:25:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12871481/considering-our-gardens-from-the-inside-out-the-first-next-room-with-architect-david-abelow 00:56:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week Cultivating Place is joined by award winning architect David Abelow. David asks us look at our gardens from the inside out and his exploration of our gardens as the “first next room” out of every door and window gets us re-viewing what our gardens are and can be. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week Cultivating Place is joined by award wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/687190774 Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:06:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12854326/a-natural-history-of-love-loss-late-migrations-with-margaret-renkl 00:55:55 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no "Loss is the twin of love" – so writes Margaret Renkl in her human and moving memoir of place, plants, people and life entitled "Late Migrations – A Natural History of Love and Loss". Margaret is a gardener, an observer, a contributing writer at the New York Times, and she joins Cultivating Place this week from her home in Tennessee. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. "Loss is the twin of love" – so writes Margaret R… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/683467400 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:05:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12838520/restoring-the-land-restoring-a-family-dean-kuipers-on-the-deer-camp 00:55:50 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Dean Kuipers has studied and written about the field of environmental politics and the human-nature relationship for decades. His most recent book "The Deer Camp" is a memoir of both place and people - recounting how restoring a piece of land with his father and his brothers also restored their family bonds and abiding love. He joins Cultivating Place this week to share more - LISTEN IN! To read more and see many photos, please go to www.Cultivatingplace.com Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Dean Kuipers has studied and written about the fi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/680182907 Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:29:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12818635/at-home-with-plants-with-baylor-chapman-lila-b-design 00:54:21 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Baylor Chapman loves plants and she’s spent a good part of her career helping people to learn about, see, love and care for plants wherever people might need them – in their homes, offices, work spaces, apartments. She believes they make us healthier, happier, better people and I agree. As students return to dorms and workers return to offices post summer – Baylor joins Cultivating Place this week to encourage us to tend toward more green – stay with us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Baylor Chapman loves plants and she’s spent a goo… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/676747083 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 16:40:22 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12797434/in-search-of-the-canary-tree-and-other-thoughts-on-resilience-with-dr-lauren-e-oakes 00:56:29 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Dr. Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation and adaptation scientist working to model and communicate how people can adapt at local levels to the GLOBAL climate crisis. Her book In Search of the Canary Tree: the Story of a Scientist, a Cypress and a Changing World is the chosen Book in Common for Chico and California State University, Chico this coming academic year. Lauren joins Cultivating Place this week to share her journey story and other thoughts on resilience in our changing world. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Dr. Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation and adaptat… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/672843362 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 17:04:50 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12779467/best-of-cp-to-be-a-seed-keeper-rowen-white 00:53:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we head into the month of September, and we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox later in the month, I am reminded of this being one of the best seed seasons in our gardens and in our wildlands. Ecosystems everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere are reminded by the light of the need to set seed before growing season’s end. I thought this was a perfect moment to return to one of the episodes from our series last year entitled Seeds of September. Today Cultivating Place revisits our conversation with SeedKeeper, Indigenous woman, mother, writer and Seed Rematriator, Rowen White. Rowen is the founder of Sierra Seeds, the chair of Seed Savers Exchange, and an active member of the Indigenous Seed Keeper Network. Sierra Seeds is a small, regional seed and seed stewardship cooperative based in Nevada County, California. Listen in for more! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As we head into the month of September, and we te… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/669503666 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:20:55 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12760598/high-ground-penstemons-other-alpine-plants-mike-kintgen-curator-at-denver-botanic-gardens 00:56:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Alpine and Steppe plants are uniquely interesting individuals and communities of plants that thrive in extreme conditions of high elevations and dry locations around the globe. This week on Cultivating Place, we head to high ground with Mike Kintgen, Curator of Alpine Plants at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver CO and member of the American Penstemon Society to learn more about these charismatic plant communities. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Alpine and Steppe plants are uniquely interesting… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/666262244 Thu, 15 Aug 2019 16:57:48 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12744800/plant-me-a-rainbow-meg-herndon-and-sandra-nam-cioffi 00:56:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On Cultivating Place this week, we speak with two Landscape Architects who came together to create and offer out to the gardening world beautiful, functional gardens that are inspired, interesting, innovative and accessible to all. Meg Herndon and Sandra Nam Cioffi share more about the concept behind their Plant Me a Rainbow, based on this garden life as a crucible in which your own values become clear, these two women created a plan to help more people create richly flowering gardens. Starting with mostly native plants suited for climates and soils of the Northeast, these gardens have as their foundation principles applicable no matter where you garden. Including really interesting correlations with the age old art and science of perfumery. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. On Cultivating Place this week, we speak with two… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/662985275 Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:16:41 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12728760/where-the-wild-things-are-the 00:56:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no David Newsom is a filmmaker, storyteller, and outdoorsman. But when his daughter was born he realized he wanted to bring her butterflies, bees and all the rich diversity of the world, and so he became a gardener to a wild backyard. That very human impulse led to his founding of the Wild Yards Project – a non profit organization working to encourage and support the creation of native plant habitat gardens through audio visual stories of native plant visionaries and webbuilding. He shares more on cultivating place this week. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. David Newsom is a filmmaker, storyteller, and out… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/659698472 Thu, 01 Aug 2019 16:58:56 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12710222/reading-a-landscape-courtney-allen-of-the-native-plant-trust 00:54:17 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we dive deep into a conversation on being more observant in our places with historic preservationist Courtney Allen, Director of Public Programs at the Native Plant Trust. Together we explore all that we can learn from really seeing and READING our landscapes: lessons and insights on history, culture, climate, integrity, humility, and accountability are all there. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. This week we dive deep into a conversation on bei… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/656278454 Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:10:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12692014/to-be-a-placemaker-with-gardener-and-spiritual-memoirist-christie-purifoy 00:55:22 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As gardeners we are many things, among these we are place makers. What does it mean to be a placemaker – what is learned, what is lost, what is gained in the making of any place. This week on Cultivating Place we consider the nature and meaning of placemaking with mother, gardener, and spiritual memoirist Christie Purifoy. She lives and gardens with her husband and four children at Maplehurst, a Victorian red brick farmhouse in southeastern Pennsylvania. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As gardeners we are many things, among these we a… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/653053103 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 17:43:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12673871/planting-your-truth-with-horticulturist-and-public-horticulture-leader-in-the-making-abra-lee 00:55:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Abra Lee is a public horticulture leader in the making. From rural roots in Georgia, to a passion for pop music and style, she sees the interweaving of horticulture and our everyday lives as a path to increasing horticulture’s relevance and importance for everyone. An advocate for Planting Your Truth – she shares more on Cultivating Place this week. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. Abra Lee is a public horticulture leader in the m… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/649674257 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:29:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12653401/on-posh-cow-parsley-other-adventures-in-growing-flowers-from-seed-clare-foster 00:51:43 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no There are few things so affirming as growing plants from seed, this week on Cultivating Place, we talk about the adventures of growing flowers from seed with Clare Foster, Garden Editor of House & Garden, UK. A gardener, author, and seed-sower herself, Clare’s newest book (with co-author, with Sabina Rüber) is "The Flower Garden: How to Grow Flowers From Seed” (Laurence King, 2019). It’s fun, colorful, and easy! Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. There are few things so affirming as growing plan… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/646417890 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 00:05:39 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12505308/robin-wall-kimmerer-on-gardening-and-citizenship 00:55:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On this Fourth of July – Cultivating Place is pleased to be in conversation with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge And The Teachings Of Plants.” Together we explore the interrelationship between gardening and citizenship. She states: "I think that is our deepest longing - to belong to each other and to belong to this larger community of life and for me this notion of tending the garden at all the scales we’ve been implying here is a powerful way to belong." Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! You can find it at cultivatingplace.com. We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. On this Fourth of July – Cultivating Place is ple… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/642927114 Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:58:52 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12269668/a-garden-can-be-anywhere-with-lauri-kranz-of-edible-gardens-la-more 00:54:29 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As summer heats us up and slows us down, the garden and in particular the edible garden is front and center. This week Cultivating Place is joined by Lauri Kranz, of Edible Gardens LA conversing about how growing your own food is one of the most empowering things you’ll ever do. Stay With us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. To read more and for many more photos please visit www.cultivatingplace.com. As summer heats us up and slows us down, the gard… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/639655257 Thu, 20 Jun 2019 17:14:47 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/12077062/a-father-daughter-horticultural-conversation-with-robert-catherine-hanss 00:55:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Robert Hanss and his daughter Catherine are a father-daughter duo in the Northeast working together to create and care for gardens and horticulture traditions and relationships that will last for generations to come. In this week following Father’s Day, and day before the Summer Solstice, they join us to talk about the changing nature of horticultural business models and the lasting legacy of family – landscapes included. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Robert Hanss and his daughter Catherine are a fat… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/636150606 Thu, 13 Jun 2019 17:39:31 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11832626/for-the-love-of-bugs-with-entomologist-gardener-and-educator-nadia-ruffin 00:54:44 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Nadia Ruffin is an entomologist, gardener and educator. She is the founder of Agricademy Inc, and Urban Farm Sista based in Cincinnati, Ohio. A lover of bugs and all life forms since very young herself, Nadia loves sharing this admiration and curiosity, with youth especially. In 2018 the Cincinnati City Council honored Nadia’s farming and agriculture initiatives, the primary focus of which is to share her knowledge and passion for the biological world and all that it offers to us in the way of endless and healthy wonder, food, beauty, and learning. In preparation for National Pollinator Week coming up next week, we speak with Nadia this week and explore this wonder, this work, as well as how and why we could all try to meet and manage our own fears. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Nadia Ruffin is an entomologist, gardener and edu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/633849516 Sun, 09 Jun 2019 00:46:44 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11695440/best-of-soul-fire-farm-committed-to-ending-racism-in-the-food-system 00:54:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Soul Fire Farm is a working farm in upstate New York. Co-founded by Leah Penniman, the farm and all its work is committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system. Leah is also the author of “Farming While Black,” in which she documents her work and passion for black and brown people coming back into healthy relationship with land and good food. As we enter the month of June, graduations, weddings and easing into summer, we revisit our conversation with the inspirational Leah Penniman On Cultivating Place this week. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Soul Fire Farm is a working farm in upstate New Y… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/629057688 Thu, 30 May 2019 18:17:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11412821/a-way-to-garden-21-years-along-with-margaret-roach 00:55:01 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no For many gardeners, Margaret Roach will need no introduction. Longtime Garden Editor of Martha Stewart Living and Editorial Director of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Margaret is the author of several well-known gardening books and the host of the gardening website and podcast A Way To Garden. Her first book also titled A Way To Garden has been updated and re-issued in honor of its 21st Birthday. Margaret joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about her garden way. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. For many gardeners, Margaret Roach will need no i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/625486494 Thu, 23 May 2019 19:33:07 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11391019/the-happy-wanderer-the-journey-story-of-plantsman-bob-hyland 00:56:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In a variation on the Dispatches from the Home Garden series, this week we enjoy a Dispatches from the Home Gardener and Plantsperson. Self-described Happy Wanderer, plantsman Bob Hyland of Hyland Garden design currently of Portland Oregon has lived and worked at some of the most prestigious horticultural institutions in the U.S. Along with his partner, Andrew, he founded and ran a successful specialty nursery in upstate New York, and he has served on horticultural boards around the country throughout his more than 40 year career in this work. Currently living and gardening with Andrew in Portland, Oregon, Bob is owner of Hyland Garden Design and the seasonal storefront Contained Exuberance in Portland, and he joins us today to share stories of the life of a plantsperson – a state of body and mind that is fully integrated in all that Bob loves and does. He shares with us today his insights and experiences as a life-long home gardener and a dedicated career professional helping to move the needle on how horticulture is perceived, practiced and appreciated/understood in our world these last 40 years. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In a variation on the Dispatches from the Home Ga… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/621659316 Thu, 16 May 2019 17:48:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11365009/green-up-brooklyn-botanic-gardens-the-greenest-block-in-brooklyn 00:58:05 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The best public gardens are in fact community gardens at some level, this week on Cultivating Place we’re speaking with gardeners from New York City’s Borough of Brooklyn where for 25 years the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens has hosted the Greenest Block in Brooklyn competition. Promoting streetscape gardening, tree stewardship, and community development in New York’s borough of Brooklyn through block and merchant associations and other groups – this is gardening as community activism of the highest order. Join us to hear more about this Greening Up. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. The best public gardens are in fact community gar… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/618146997 Thu, 09 May 2019 17:10:29 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11338174/life-force-mothers-day-louesa-roebuck-of-foraged-flora 00:56:46 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no LIFE FORCE: In honor of mother’s day here in the US this coming weekend, we’re joined by artist, floral designer, textile designer and all around creative Louesa Roebuck, co-author of the beautiful book Foraged Flora – A year of Gathering and Arranging Wild Plants And Flowers - exploring the life force to be found in our mothers - biological and earthly. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. LIFE FORCE: In honor of mother’s day here in the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/614769561 Thu, 02 May 2019 19:16:28 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11316657/truth-beauty-chaos-and-plants-the-planthunter-australia 00:56:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no TRUTH, BEAUTY, CHAOS & PLANTS - May Day is upon us and we celebrate in conversation with Australian gardener and writer - Georgina Reid. Based in Australia, her work under the name of The Planthunter finds truth beauty chaos and what it is to live an important life – in constant relationship with Plants. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. TRUTH, BEAUTY, CHAOS & PLANTS - May Day is upon u… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/611322861 Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:05:55 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11295363/daring-to-be-wild-we-are-the-ark-with-irish-plantswoman-mary-reynolds 00:57:57 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Irish plantswoman Mary Reynolds has cultivated a deep love of her place in the mountains of Wicklow, Ireland - in all its complexity and mystery. As a plantswoman and guardian/gardener - she listens to her place, and works in partnership with her place to move us all forward towards a better world. Mary is a nature activist, a self-described reformed Landscape Designer, the author of "The Garden Awakening", and the inspiration behind the 2015 movie Dare to be Wild – she joins Cultivating Place this week in an extended celebration of Earth Day, and our bonus Habitat Garden Series Episode #6. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. TAGS: Irish plantswoman Mary Reynolds has cultivated a … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/607986600 Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:43:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11273088/nature-gardens-at-the-natural-history-museum-of-la-county 00:56:55 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In our fifth episode in our five part series on our gardens as habitat and we gardeners as powerful land stewards and biodiversity protectors, we visit a remarkable public garden in California during California Native Plant Week. The Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County are testament to just how much one garden can do to turn back time and help restore habitat even in downtown LA where once a parking lot sat barren and overheated. We’re joined today by native plant expert and Horticulturist Carol Bornstein, Director of the Nature Gardens, and by Lila Higgins, Senior Manager of Community Science there. They will bring us up to speed on what the Nature Gardens and the habitat they provide can offer to us all. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In our fifth episode in our five part series on o… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/604632012 Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:21:24 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11248948/hummingbirds-in-our-gardens-with-dr-susan-wethington 00:55:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Hummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creature of the Americas, the more than 350 species of which have coevolved with the flora of the Americas for millions of years. Cultivating Place is joined in our ongoing discussion of our gardens as important refuge habitats by Dr. Susan Wethington, research scientist, Program Developer, and Executive Director of the Hummingbird Monitoring Network. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Hummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creatu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/601271748 Fri, 05 Apr 2019 06:29:39 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11226082/the-migratory-bird-garden-the-shedd-aquarium-w-horticulturist-christine-nye 00:56:46 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In this our third in a five part series, on our gardens as important habitat links for the wildlife of our regions we’re joined by Horticulturist Christine Nye of Chicago’s historic – and state of the art 21st century - lakeside Shedd Aquarium. Christine’s visionary gardens there reminds us that the “healthy habitat” of our gardens expansively includes the fish in our waters and the bird’s in our skies. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In this our third in a five part series, on our g… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/597555552 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 22:31:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11197626/monarchs-and-milkweed-our-gardens-as-habitat-series-episode-2-of-5 00:58:26 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In 2018, scientists reported dramatic losses in populations of one of North America’s most charismatic insects, the Monarch butterfly, with an estimated 14.8 percent decline of Eastern Monarchs and a precipitous 86% percent 1-year decline in Western Monarchs. While Monarchs are known for seasonal fluctuations in their numbers, this week we speak with Monarch researcher Dr. Anurag Agrawal of Cornell University to learn more. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In 2018, scientists reported dramatic losses in p… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/593628450 Thu, 21 Mar 2019 16:54:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11173973/the-xerces-society-and-their-bee-city-initiative-the-1st-of-5-episodes-on-our-gardens-as-healthy-habitat 00:59:48 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The news goes from bad to worse when we’re talking about biodiversity, insect declines and habitat loss in our world. This week we kick off an all new five-week curated series on the critically important habitat our gardens provide - what it means, what it looks like, how we can improve it – we start with an overview in conversation with with Scott Black, and by Phyllis Stiles of the Xerces Society for invertebrate conservation and their bee city initiative. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. The news goes from bad to worse when we’re talkin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/590020812 Thu, 14 Mar 2019 16:51:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11154406/spring-break-special-kids-at-play-outside-with-amanda-thomsen-nancy-strinise 01:04:45 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Spring is right around the corner and Spring Break Season is here – have you been outside lately? Have you been outside to play? Our guests this week on Cultivating Place are Amanda Thomsen of Kiss My Aster and Backyard Adventure, and Nancy Striniste of Nature Play At Home. They both remind us of the health and wellbeing involved in the activity of going outside to play. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Spring is right around the corner and Spring Brea… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/586728855 Fri, 08 Mar 2019 04:24:41 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11135315/garden-bloggers-fling 00:59:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On Cultivating Place this week – we’re joined by Pam Penick of the garden blog Digging, and founder of the Garden Bloggers Fling, together with Judy Seaborn co-owner of Botanical Interest Seeds in Denver, Co and organizer of this year’s Fling. We explore the intimacy and generosity of Gardeners - specifically garden bloggers - when they gather. The Garden Bloggers Fling has been gathering since 2008 and this year it meets to share knowledge and joy in Denver, Colorado in June. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. On Cultivating Place this week – we’re joined by … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/582937548 Thu, 28 Feb 2019 21:07:50 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11111595/farmings-bright-just-future-the-nyfc-with-lindsey-lusher-shute 00:57:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Working to ensure a bright and just future for U.S. Agriculture – that’s the work of the The National Young Farmers coalition whose advocacy, trainings and PODCAST are educations in themselves. Cultivating Place is in conversation this week with Lindsey Lusher Shute, Executive Director of the coalition and a vibrant young, independent farmer and gardener herself. Join us – Thursday at 10 am, Sunday at 9 here on www.mynspr.org. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Working to ensure a bright and just future for U.… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/579061020 Thu, 21 Feb 2019 17:39:07 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11090787/farmings-bright-just-future-the-national-young-farmers-coalition-with-lindsey-lusher-shute 00:57:15 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Home of the famed spring plant sale HORTLANDIA, The Hardy Plant Society of Oregon is a thriving community of gardeners and Hort Heads who offer year round, life long learning and plant nerd opportunities. Cultivating Place is joined this week by Nancy Goldman of the HPSO to continue our exploration of the different ways in which we gardeners gather, learn and grow together. There’s always more to learn - Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Home of the famed spring plant sale HORTLANDIA, T… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/575572761 Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:54:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11072211/wave-hill-and-the-lifelong-learning-of-gardeners 00:53:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Gardeners and naturalists are remarkably ardent self-directed, life-long learners and doers. And the winter season is well-adapted to gardeners’ continuing education and community building, this week we’re joined by Louis Bauer of Wave Hill a New York Public Garden and Cultural Center. Their annual 3 part winter lecture series is under way now. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Gardeners and naturalists are remarkably ardent s… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/571672254 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 17:34:04 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11050907/the-audacity-of-interconnecting-with-plants-tree-by-melina-sempill-watts 00:59:36 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As an early Valentine to this garden life and plant loving community, Cultivating Place offers out a conversation with Melina Sempill Watts, author of Tree – a labor of audacity and arborphilia, Tree invites us to remain wide open, to listen and absorb what is shared with us, and thereby see the truth, beauty, and meaning in other being's existence. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. As an early Valentine to this garden life and pla… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/568135443 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:37:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11032114/fire-recovery-guide-with-cnps 00:56:25 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Just three months since California’s November 2018 Fires made global headlines, the great winter greening of our state is underway and with it the urge to GROW - in humans as in plants. On the opposite side of the globe from us are holding their breath for the first rains of late autumn and an end to their annual fire season. Fire is fact of life – this week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Julie Evens,Vegetation Specialist and Greg Suba, Conservation Director with expertise in forestry management and fire, both of the California Native Plant Society to explore facts about fire and fire recovery. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Just three months since California’s November 201… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/564497835 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 16:43:23 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/11017101/best-of-the-danger-garden-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-with-loree-bohl 00:58:07 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Danger Ahead: Home gardener and garden blogger Loree Bohl loves a garden with stand-out foliage and bold form. But pay attention - it can be dangerous out there! Loree writes: "Nice plants are boring – my love is for plants that can hurt you. Agave, yucca, anything with a spike or spur!” This week on Cultivating Place, the next in our series of Dispatches from the Home Garden. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place: http://bit.ly/2TgRFbQ We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Danger Ahead: Home gardener and garden blogger Lo… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/560649438 Thu, 17 Jan 2019 22:43:56 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10993880/fruit-as-the-currency-of-memory-with-fruit-forager-sara-bir 00:58:42 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no For Sara Bir – food librarian, forager, chef and author – fruit are sweet, delicious, sexy and tactile – but every bit as important – they among her currency of memory. Sara, whose new book The Fruit Forager’s Companion is out now from Chelsea Green, joins Cultivating Place to share her fruit foraging philosophy and practice. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. For Sara Bir – food librarian, forager, chef and … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/557070420 Thu, 10 Jan 2019 22:07:56 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10976366/plant-colored-glasses-a-botanists-life 01:00:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Plants are all around us, and wherever there are plants, there are likely to be botanists at work trying to study, know and understand them better for us all. This week on Cultivating Place, botanist Linnea Hanson joins us to talk about the life of a botanist and the upcoming Northern California Botanist Symposium taking place in Chico Jan 14 – 16. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Plants are all around us, and wherever there are … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/553690482 Thu, 03 Jan 2019 21:06:08 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10953715/an-exercise-in-intimacy-turning-into-flowers 01:00:11 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As an exercise in intimacy for the New Year – this week on Cultivating Place, we visit an artistic and botanical project in South Africa known as Turning Into Flowers, which strives to combine a wide variety of cultural perspectives to create a new relationship between human and plant communities. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. As an exercise in intimacy for the New Year – thi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/550759659 Thu, 27 Dec 2018 21:07:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10938226/floral-tete-a-tete-fun-for-the-new-year 00:54:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Some Floral tete a tete fun visits Cultivating Place this week just in time for the New Year. Josh Werber – founder of Floral Tete a Tete, a creative journey that began with a challenge to create an artistic floral headpiece every week for a year - three years ago now. The florals are really fun and the weekly practice led Josh to the heart of his creative inquiry. Fun and Creative Practice for the New Year Ahead. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Some Floral tete a tete fun visits Cultivating Pl… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/547991625 Thu, 20 Dec 2018 23:54:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10924419/recalibrating-our-nervous-systems-floral-artistry-with-max-gill 00:54:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Recalibrating our nervous systems and the art of seasonal, local floral design is what we’re exploring On CP this week with Max Gill, floral designer perhaps best known for his weekly floral artistry at Chez Panisse in Berkeley California. On the eve of the Winter Solstice, Max is inspiring and instructional for us all this holiday season. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Recalibrating our nervous systems and the art of … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/544494423 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:26:41 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10902884/cultivating-place-when-we-talk-with-our-gardens-ilene-flax-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-inbox 00:58:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In constant conversation with her home garden, our guest this week on Cultivating Place is committed to both the listening and the speaking roles. In this newest episode in our occasional series, Dispatches from the Home Garden, Ilene Flax of Boulder, Colorado shares how she visits with her plants while watering them, and how she is grieving the impending loss of her beloved Ash trees to the Emerald Ash borer. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place by heading to www.cultivatingplace.com. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit www.cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In constant conversation with her home garden, ou… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/540872004 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 22:07:04 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10881176/cultivating-place-seasonal-garden-book-round-up 00:58:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Did you say you needed a good Garden Book Recommendation?! The holidays and end of year are upon us – and with them, all those lists. Things to do, food to cook, intentions to make, gifts to consider. To help in your deliberations, this week, I’ve gathered a handful of gardeners from ranging interests and locales to offer some thoughts on good books that catch their eyes and imaginations this season. Join Yolanda Burrell, owner of Pollinate Farm and Garden in Oakland, CA; Lorene Edwards Forkner, Editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine and based in Seattle WA; And Pen Pender, Home Gardener, bee-keeper, baker, and avid garden book reader in Mt. Macedon Australia for a round table discussion of good garden books we love now (and some of which we loved for a while now)! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place by visiting www.culitvatingplace.com. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Did you say you needed a good Garden Book Recomme… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/539224896 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:38:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10867665/cultivating-place-adaptation 01:00:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Do you ever stop to wonder where your garden tools came from? The history behind plant and garden trends or techniques? Gardens and garden history are microsms of world history and every story illuminates the larger course of humanity. In her new book "The Compendium of Amazing Gardening Innovations," Abigail Willis highlights 50 important gardening innovation. Host Jennifer Jewell also share her reflections on the innovations and adaptations put to work in states of emergency such as her region continues to face in the aftermath and long road to regeneration following the #CampFire. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place by visiting www.culitvatingplace.com. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Do you ever stop to wonder where your garden tool… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/534042582 Thu, 22 Nov 2018 19:45:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10817134/cultivating-place-wanderlust-gardenlust-an-armchair-tour-of-some-of-the-worlds-best-new-gardens 00:55:33 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In the wake, and still the fury of the #CAMPFIRE here in Northern California - we lean into some escapism on this long weekend of the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Last week we prepared ourselves for the season of gratitude and this week we here in the U.S. lean into the long Thanksgiving Holiday weekend with an aspirational armchair tour of inspirational new gardens around the world. We’re joined with horticulturist and longtime public garden administrator, Chris Woods sharing with us about his new book: GardenLust. Join us. In the wake, and still the fury of the #CAMPFIRE … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/531571725 Sun, 18 Nov 2018 02:51:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10791804/cultivating-place-gratitude-morning-altars 01:01:53 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we revisit our Gratitude Special of last year - celebrating this season of harvest, of taking stock, of giving back, of deep GRATITUDE and of preparing for the restorative dark of winter ahead. Our central conversation is with earth artist Day Schildkret, who makes meaning and beauty with his daily practice, and now global outreach and book known as Morning Altars. Woven throughout the episode are gardeners from around the world sharing with us what gratitude in the garden looks like to them. It’s incredibly painful again to write this week - one week since the #CAMPFIRE of California broke out and swept across (so far) 148,000 acres of this beautiful landscape of the California Floristic Region, close to 10,000 human homes destroyed, hundreds of businesses, at least three nurseries destroyed or damaged, the members of several dedicated garden clubs and master gardener groups profoundly impacted. And that's just what we know as of today. I know that the fires continue south of here, ravaging those landscapes. I recognize that there's loss, devastation, and tragedy of all scales around our globe daily - today my heart is heavy here, in my home - home of the Maidu, Wintu, Concow and other indigenous peoples, home of so many endemic and native plant and animals friends and lives held dear, home to me and my family for 11 years now. Several weeks ago now Sarah and I determined to revisit our Gratitude Special from 2017 this week, in part to prepare ourselves for this traditional season of harvest and thanksgiving and in part to celebrate the publication of Day Schildkret's new book Morning Altars. Which is well worth celebrating. It did not of course occur to us that this episode would air in this time of chaos and loss. And yet it did. While for some the storylines might feel too soon, too raw, to hard to hear - I hope for others it hold seeds of hope and possibility for the next season of growth. While the landscape and nature all around us in the midst of natural disaster might not seem like a source of solace, might instead seem like causes for fear, the words of Leah Penniman of several weeks ago come back to me: "While the land might be the scene of the crime, the land itself is NOT the crime." While she was of course speaking to Black and Brown farmers and cultivators, reminding them of their rightful, beautiful, and dignified reciprocal and ancient relationship to the land - I would offer her thought out as a seed of hope for all gardeners in my region for whom gardening, relationship, and pleasure from their scarred landscape might seem distant right now. While so much is being done in the here and now for immediate needs of people affected by this disaster - my thoughts are toward the many dedicated and passionate gardeners in our area and all that they’ve lost. Losses like these will come into clearer focus as time goes on and be very painful, and yet might also seem insignificant to these gardeners in the face of everything. I want you gardeners to know that you are seen and supported, and that the gardening community wants to help your and your important gardening passions as they rebuild. Stay tuned for support efforts in the works and coming soon. I am grateful to be here with you in community, Love, Jennifer This week on Cultivating Place, we revisit our Gr… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/529101771 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:17:08 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10766033/cultivating-place-no-ghosts-but-a-good-story-the-asa-gray-garden-renovation-at-mt-auburn-cemetery 00:56:20 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In this week after All Hallow eve, Day of the Dead, Samhain, All Saints Day, and All Soul’s day – I thought – let’s visit a garden for our ancestors. This week we head East, to hear about a renovation project of the Asa Gray Garden at the historic Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. No ghosts, but a good story. Join us. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place by heading to cultivatingplace.com. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In this week after All Hallow eve, Day of the Dea… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/523280220 Thu, 01 Nov 2018 17:13:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10707043/cultivating-place-soul-fire-farm-committed-to-ending-racism-in-the-food-system 00:57:26 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Soul Fire Farm is a working farm in upstate New York committed to ending racism and injustice in the food system, co-founded by Leah Penniman. Leah is also the author of Farming While Black, documenting her work and passion for black and brown people coming back into healthy relationship with land and good food, which is out on shelves this week. The inspirational Leah Penniman shares more with Cultivating Place this week. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place by making a donation at cultivatingplace.com. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more conversations like this one with Leah Penniman. For photos of Leah and Soul Fire Farm visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Soul Fire Farm is a working farm in upstate New Y… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/519763194 Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:30:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10653593/cultivating-place-octobers-botanical-artistry-part-4-ann-wood-ngoc-minh-ngo 00:56:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no "Our craving to connect with nature continues to be the perfect foil for the magic of the human imagination," writes photographer Ngoc Minh Ngo. This week Cultivating Place wraps up "Artober" with Minneapolis based 3-dimensional paper artist Ann Wood, of Woodlucker Studios, and a revisit to a conversation with Vietnamese-born, New York-based artist and writer Ngoc Minh Ngo, who spoke to us about her book: "In Bloom: Creating and Living with Flowers," a collection of 11 portraits of artists inspired by the natural world. These two artists portray beautifully the endless creativity of botanical artistry. Join us! In case you didn't hear, the Cultivating Place team now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years and we hope you'll support Cultivating Place by donating to the podcast at cultivatingplace.com. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. "Our craving to connect with nature continues to … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/516332604 Thu, 18 Oct 2018 19:01:07 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10598249/cultivating-place-octobers-botanical-artistry-part-3-julia-lucey-aquatint-etching 00:41:17 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no There’s an ancient association between the botanical world and the inspiration it provides to artists of all kinds. For our Botanical Artistry series part three, we meet Julia Lucey, whose painterly aquatint etching collage pieces evocatively depict the rich personalities of native flora and fauna. Join us! In case you didn't hear, the Cultivating Place team now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening as over the years we've discussed expanding our views on the powerful nature of gardens, plants, and gardeners as intersectional spaces and agents of change for the better in our world. We hope you'll support Cultivating Place by hitting the donate button at www.cultivatingplace.com and we can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. You can also find photos of Julia's work at cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. There’s an ancient association between the botani… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/513376683 Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:30:32 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10549702/cultivating-place-botanical-artistry-of-october-part-2-obi-kaufmann-the-california-field-atlas 00:55:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no There’s an ancient association between the botanical world and the inspiration it provides to artists of all kinds. For our Botanical Artistry series part two, we meet Obi Kaufmann – author and artist of The California Field Atlas – he sometimes calls it a family album of his lifelong relationship with the physical being we know as California. Join us! In case you didn't hear, the Cultivating Place team is rolling out its first campaign to create sustainable funding for the production of Cultivating Place going into the future! We thank you so much for listening as over the years we've discussed expanding our views on the powerful nature of gardens, plants, and gardeners as intersectional spaces and agents of change for the better in our world. And for those of you who choose to be one of the first to monetarily support Cultivating Place - we can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations. To give your support - head to cultivatingplace.com. There you'll also find photos of today's episode. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. There’s an ancient association between the botani… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/509519418 Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:55:07 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10482045/cultivating-place-botanical-artistry-of-october-part-1-kate-blairstone-mona-caron 00:53:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no There’s an ancient association between the botanical world and art inspired by it. This week on Cultivating Place, we kick off a four-part series in which we hear about the process, purpose and passions of five different artists all expressing their love for plants through their artistry. Today we hear from the bold and the heroic when we’re joined by botanical illustrator Kate Blairstone of Portland, Oregon, followed by a conversation with international urban muralist, Mona Caron. Join us. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. There’s an ancient association between the botani… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/506136402 Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:04:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10424572/cultivating-place-seeds-of-september-part-3-the-seeds-of-who-we-grow-to-become-stonegate-farm 00:54:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, our final in the Seeds of September series we're joined by Matthew Benson of Stonegate Farm in New York's Hudson Valley, where he is his very own, very small agricultural district sowing seeds to grow other growers. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. This week on Cultivating Place, our final in the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/502758771 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:08:05 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10364848/cultivating-place-seeds-of-september-part-three-rowen-white-and-sierra-seeds 00:55:35 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, the third installment in the Seeds of September four part series– we’re joined by Rowen White, founder of Sierra Seeds a seed and seed advocacy cooperative in Nevada County, Calif. Rowen, a Mohawk woman who serves on the Indigenous Seed Keeper’s Network and is current chair of Seed Savers Exchange, shares with us her love, purpose and poetry of seed stewardship. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. This week on Cultivating Place, the third install… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/499531314 Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:08:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10307737/091318-cp-irawallace-podcast-final 00:54:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, the second installment in the Seeds of September four part series – when we’re joined by plantswoman, seed advocate, farmer and author Ira Wallace of the Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and the Heritage Harvest Festival in Charlottesville, VA Sept 20 – 22. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. This week on Cultivating Place, the second instal… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/496244754 Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:10:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10250310/cultivating-place-seeds-of-september-part-one-jere-gettle-organic-seed-alliance-redwood-seeds 01:02:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Welcome to The Seeds of September – this week on Cultivating Place we kick off our four-part series in conversation with Jere Gettle of Baker Creek Seeds, and more from the Organic Seed Alliance and Redwood Seeds. I think you’re going to love it! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Welcome to The Seeds of September – this week on … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/492479664 Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:30:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10189988/best-of-cultivating-place-more-to-life-than-meets-the-eye-eugenia-bone-author-of-microbia 00:55:36 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no They are in your garden by the billions, they are in your food, in your house, and all over your skin. They partner us in all we do and they make all that we do well possible to start with. This week on Cultivating Place we revisit a conversation with science and food writer Eugenia Bone to talk more about her own foray into better understanding the world of the amazing and powerful world of Microbia. It’s a focus that is expanding for us all. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. They are in your garden by the billions, they are… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/489569148 Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:13:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10111039/best-of-cultivating-place-tools-make-the-man-or-woman 00:54:03 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The right tools can make all the difference in our lives and in our work. This is as true in gardening as in all other aspects of life. This week on Cultivating Place we revisit a conversation with Dorian Winslow, president of Womanswork. Almost 33 years ago now, Womanswork introduced the first work and garden gloves designed specifically for women. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. The right tools can make all the difference in ou… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/486405477 Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:09:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10048827/best-of-cultivating-place-in-the-night-garden-with-the-international-dark-sky-association 00:53:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we spend a little time revisiting our conversation exploring and appreciating the many gifts of darkness with the International Dark-Sky Association. This conversation is from December and the season of Winter Solstice, but I really wanted to revisit it now – in the season not too far past the summer solstice. The nights are short (but lengthening now) and they are warm and we have a tendency to want to stay up and out later than we do in winter. The summer stars, the summer moon, the meteor showers – they beckon us to come outside as much as our morning flowers. Join us to listen to the conversation with Keith Ashley and Amanda Gormley of the International Dark-Sky Association, two passionate people within a global organization working to protect natural darkness as the precious natural resource it is. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. This week on Cultivating Place, we spend a little… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/485581011 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:17:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/10031678/best-of-cultivating-place-gardening-under-australian-skies-a-conversation-with-pen-pender 00:51:31 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, a best of conversation with a home gardener who has moved not just gardens, but continents and hemispheres. As we just reached the height of sunlight with our summer solstice, she eased into her winter. She shares a gardening story of learning, community and adaptability. Pen Pender is a gardener, mother, wife, voracious reader, community activist, bee keeper, cook and novice potter living near Mt. Macedon in Victoria, Australia. While I might never see kangaroos in my garden, and she may never hear the sound of a congregation of acorn woodpeckers, we are still gardening together in some sense. As she digs in and looks appreciatively up at winter over there, I dig in and look up in anticipation of a long hot summer over here. Pen shares her story of gardening under Australian skies. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. This week on Cultivating Place, a best of convers… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/480206964 Thu, 02 Aug 2018 15:57:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9914347/best-of-cultivating-place-leslie-bennett-pine-house-edible-gardens 00:56:04 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Leslie Bennett is a garden designer of both English and Jamaican descent working out of Oakland, CA. With a Jamaican-born husband, a two year old son, and knowledgeable, passionate views about the importance of cultural heritage, on cultivating Place this week, Leslie shares her journey navigating the marriage of beauty, function, cultural property and the radical activism of gardening. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Leslie Bennett is a garden designer of both Engli… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/477113859 Thu, 26 Jul 2018 18:51:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9865642/cultivating-place-the-garden-in-every-sense-and-season 00:56:11 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The garden is a full contact playground engaging us at all levels: We can hear, we can taste, we can see and smell - touch and feel. Tovah Martin is gardener and garden writer who explores the truth and the manifold joys of this truth in her new book “The Garden in Every Sense and Season” out now from Timber Press. Tovah joins us this week on Cultivating Place to share more. Listen in! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. The garden is a full contact playground engaging … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/473916516 Thu, 19 Jul 2018 17:13:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9798894/cultivating-place-new-england-wild-flower-society 00:55:32 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The New England Wild Flower Society is one of the oldest native plant conservation organizations in the country and represents the New England states. Their new book Native Plants for the New England Gardens is a perfect reference for their ecological and pollinator garden workshops being held across New England this summer. On Cultivating Place this week, we learn more. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. The New England Wild Flower Society is one of the… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/470762475 Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:21:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9732755/cultivating-place-beth-chatto-garden-symposium 00:55:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In May of this year, the gardening world – specifically the ecologically based gardening world – lost one of it’s great leaders, Beth Chatto. This August her gardens and educational trust are hosting a symposium to honor her life and her work. On Cultivating Place this week we hear more about the woman and her legacy – join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In May of this year, the gardening world – specif… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/467681211 Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:58:22 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9656588/cultivating-place-the-case-of-the-poached-dudleya 00:54:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week we’re joined by two native plantspeople – Julie Nelson and Michael Kauffmann - to delve into the unsettling case of the poached Dudleya this last year here in California – join us as we explore the interesting, sometimes bothersome issues an incident like this brings up for us gardeners. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. This week we’re joined by two native plantspeople… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/464698590 Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:39:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9589500/cultivating-place-wallflowers-us-botanic-gardens 00:53:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In preparation for the 4th of July holiday, this week we visit our nation’s capital and the U.S. Botanic Garden. We’re joined by Devin Dotson, exhibits specialist and Nekisha Durrett, a featured artist in an epic summer mural exhibit at the Gardens - join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In preparation for the 4th of July holiday, this … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/461485023 Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:29:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9519269/cultivating-place-national-pollinator-week-with-biologist-dave-goulson 00:56:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On Cultivating Place today we celebrate National Pollinator Week in the US when we’re joined by British biologist, conservationist and Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex in England, Dave Goulson. A gardener and bumblebee expert, Dave is the founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust dedicated to growing the awareness and appreciation for the life and importance of the bumblebees - and all insects of our world - join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. On Cultivating Place today we celebrate National … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/458389848 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:34:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9454117/cultivating-place-kevin-jordan-and-leo-palmiters-high-school-garden-program 00:56:01 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It is now officially summer vacation for most public school districts in the US. Today, Cultivating Place takes a little field trip to visit Sacramento high school teacher Kevin Jordan’s garden program which adds fresh air and fresh thinking in the classroom and out, in all weather and all seasons. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. It is now officially summer vacation for most pub… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/455160882 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:04:07 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9388747/cultivating-place-five-seasons-the-gardens-of-piet-oudolf 00:56:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In the global gardening world, Piet Oudolf is synonymous with a naturalistic planting style - rich in sweeps of grouped flowering perennials (often North American wildflower and prairie plants) and characterized by dramatic seasonal dynamics and ecological grounding . A new film "Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf" opens in New York this month celebrating this man and his work. On Cultivating Place this week, we learn more when we’re joined by filmmaker Thomas Piper. Join us. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. In the global gardening world, Piet Oudolf is syn… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/451821378 Thu, 31 May 2018 17:30:23 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9320921/cultivating-place-the-humane-gardener-with-nancy-lawson 00:56:18 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word Humane as this: Being characterized by consideration of other, compassionate. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Nancy Lawson author of – The Humane Gardener, Nurturing a Backyard Habitat for Wildlife. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word Hu… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/448615905 Thu, 24 May 2018 17:42:41 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9254577/cultivating-place-memorial-day-a-reflection-garden-southern-ct-state-university 00:56:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Entryways of Civility, Pathways of Kindness: A Reflection and Social Justice Garden on the Campus of Southern Connecticut University in New Haven, CT. Originally conceived to celebrate the lives and lights of four women Alumnae of Southern Connecticut State University who were killed while trying to protect the students in their care during the course of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT in 2012. In honor of the intentions of the upcoming Memorial Day weekend and the power of gardens to make the world a better place, we hear more about this new and powerful garden on Cultivating Place this week. Join us. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Entryways of Civility, Pathways of Kindness: A Re… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/445133187 Thu, 17 May 2018 17:00:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9188448/cultivating-place-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-with-bettina-mueller-a-tea-garden-in-tivoli-ny 00:55:16 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Unprecedented – Never to Happen Again. This Zen idiom refers specifically to the transient nature of time and each and every moment no matter how seemingly mundane. This sacredness in the everyday is at the heart of our Dispatches from the Home Garden this week when we visit an American tea garden in Tivoli, New York. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Unprecedented – Never to Happen Again. This Zen i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/442216116 Thu, 10 May 2018 19:11:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9114783/cultivating-place-art-in-the-garden-art-from-the-garden-with-melody-overstreet 00:54:38 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Art in the garden, art from the Garden – these are concepts familiar to most gardeners and yet for many of us also perhaps still largely unplumbed. This week, we visit with Iranian-American artist and plant person, Melody Overstreet to speak more about the culture of plant and land based art and the crafting of pigments, inks, dyes and watercolors. Melody shares her cultural, artistic and plant based journey with grace and in a way that interweaves her art with her world view and ethics. Melody will be on the campus of California State University Chico on Saturday May 26th to teach a workshop on naturally crafted, locally sourced pigments for the Friends of the Chico State Herbarium. Link to registration information is at cultivatingplace.com. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Art in the garden, art from the Garden – these ar… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/439378137 Fri, 04 May 2018 17:05:19 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/9057327/cultivating-place-more-to-life-than-meets-the-eye-eugenia-bone-author-of-microbia 00:55:19 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no They are in your garden by the billions, they are in your food, in your house, and all over your skin. They partner us in all we do and they make all that we do well possible to start with. Listen in to this week's Cultivating Place, when we’re joined by science and food writer Eugenia Bone to talk more about her own foray into better understanding the world of the amazing and powerful world of Microbia. It’s a focus that is expanding for us all. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. They are in your garden by the billions, they are… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/435621075 Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:54:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8979133/cultivating-place-gardening-while-youngnational-children-youth-garden-symposium-2018 00:57:01 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The second best time to become a gardener and nature lover is right now. The first best time, is as a child. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Nora McDonald and Katherine Somerville of the American Horticultural Society and by Fiona Doherty of Cornell University’s Horticulture Department and Garden Education. They talk with us about the history, impact of hopes of the American Horticultural Society’s Children & Youth Garden Symposium. This year’s symposium is being held in July at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. The second best time to become a gardener and nat… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/432199884 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:51:23 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8908020/cultivating-place-ca-native-pant-week-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-with-vincent-bellino 00:41:09 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Happy California Native Plant Week! The California Floristic Province is home to on the order of 6,500 native plant species and there are those among us who love and want to ensure the long life of the genetics and habitats of every single one. Today, in celebration of California Native Plant Week, we’re hearing from a selection of those voices, including Native Plant Home Gardener Vincent Bellino. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Happy California Native Plant Week! The Californi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/428744742 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:48:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8838038/cultivating-place-monticello-the-gardens-and-gardening-legacy-of-thomas-jefferson 00:52:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no On April 13th, Statesman and third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, would be 275 years old. He was also an avid and curious and acquisitive gardener and plant lover. His historic home and garden, Monticello, is an UNESCO Heritage sight, and Jefferson began designing and building Monticello at just 26 years old. With Virginia’s Historic Garden week just around the corner on April 21st - 28th, we’re joined this week on Cultivating Place by two members of Monticello’s horticultural staff, Peggy Cornett, curator of plants and Eleanor Gould, curator of gardens. We’ll explore the legacy of the gardens in all their complexity, depth and scope. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. On April 13th, Statesman and third president of t… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/425329413 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:06:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8768314/cultivating-place-emily-murphy-grow-what-you-love 00:55:10 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Grow what you love, it’s advice we’re given early in our gardening adventures as to how to choose what to plant, to tend and to pray over. Grow the food you love to eat, grow the flowers you love to look at or smell, grow the tree whose canopy you’d like to rest beneath. "Grow what you love" is also the title of Emily Murphy’s new book. A Northern Californian gardener, mother, educator and optimist – Emily’s my guest on Cultivating Place this week. Join us. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Grow what you love, it’s advice we’re given early… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/421929756 Thu, 29 Mar 2018 17:41:25 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8701383/cultivating-place-what-a-mountain-tastes-like-with-pascal-baudar 00:55:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Have you ever thought: that is just what the mountains taste like? That is just what the forest or the ocean must taste like? For wildcrafter Pascal Baudar, author of The New Wildcrafted Cuisine and The Wildcrafting Brewer, from Chelsea Green Publishing, what his place tastes like in a specific season is at the heart of his food and garden. Baudar works as a wild-food researcher, wild brewer, and instructor in traditional food preservation techniques. Over the years, through his weekly classes and seminars, he has introduced thousands of home cooks, local chefs, and foodies to the flavors offered by their wild landscapes. In 2014, Baudar was named one of the 25 most influential local tastemakers by Los Angeles Magazine, and in 2017 his instructional programs, taught through Urban Outdoor Skills, were named one of the seven most creative cooking classes in the L.A. region. Pascal Baudar joins Cultivating Place this week. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Have you ever thought: that is just what the moun… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/413178699 Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:38:44 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8634571/best-of-cultivating-place-the-nurturing-plant-power-of-mama-maiz 00:50:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Nurturing – that’s what comes to mind when I think of the work of Blanca Diaz also known as Mama Maiz. Blanca is a practicing doula and herbalist whose work takes her around the country teaching and practicing plant based healing. She nurtures new mothers as they prepare to bring new life into our world, and she nurtures plants for their wisdom, healing and beauty. She nurtures community from the ground up sharing, as she says: “what she has been called and given permission to share.” Blanca believes in, studies and shares with others the power of plants, especially the native plants of our own regions and our relationships to them, in an effort to bring healing, well-being and greater understanding into our lives. Mama Maiz shares with Cultivating Place this week. Join us! For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Nurturing – that’s what comes to mind when I thin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/412782105 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:50:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8564507/cultivating-place-maria-failla-bloom-grow-radio 00:56:07 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, a conversation with Maria Failla, the host of Bloom & Grow Radio – a unique podcast from New York City designed specifically for indoor plant people, urban jungle dwellers, houseplant enthusiasts and succulent killers alike. Join us! This week on Cultivating Place, a conversation wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/410639460 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:24:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8494109/cultivating-place-benjamin-vogt-a-new-garden-ethic 00:50:47 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Benjamin Vogt is a next generation student of the beloved conservationist and writer Aldo Leopold and a passionate nature and garden advocate himself. In his book “A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion For An Uncertain Future” he takes the essence of Leopold’s "A Land Ethic" and brings it home to our gardens in some surprising and sometimes challenging ways. Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives — lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political, it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another. Join us for Cultivating Place this week to hear more. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The show is available as a podcast on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. Benjamin Vogt is a next generation student of the… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/406818819 Thu, 01 Mar 2018 18:19:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8427247/cultivating-place-designing-with-palms-a-conversation-with-jason-dewees 00:55:57 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, Designing with Palms – in the heart of Spring Break season where those of us in colder climes might be longing for a warm, sunny, palm punctuated beach, we dig into this remarkable plant family and get above and beyond its symbolism and closer to its truer history and essence. Photographed by Caitlin Atkinson and written by Jason Dewees, the staff horticulturist at Flora Grubb Gardens and East West Trees in San Francisco. Responsible for the Tree Canopy Succession Plan for the San Francisco Botanical Garden, Jason serves on the Horticultural Advisory Committee for the San Francisco Botanical Garden, and on The San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers Advisory Council. Join us! This week on Cultivating Place, Designing with Pa… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/403612092 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:50:33 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8358228/cultivating-place-a-pot-spot-classic-handcrafted-stone-vessels 00:54:34 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Most gardeners - of the indoor or outdoor variety - love (and covet) a good pot. For house plants, for focal points, for cut arrangements, for … well, just for the love of them. We might even be known to over-collect, over-indulge, over-spend, and overly adore the best of our pots. And I am a gardener taken with the handcrafted pots of Claire Bandfield, a self-taught artist living in Camas, Washington. Originally from Portland, she started making hand cast stone pots for her garden. The planters, made from Portland cement, sand and organic materials, resemble the limestone rock tufa and their distinctive luminous grey-stone tones are lovely counterpoints to anything green. With an appreciation for creating organic objects, Claire’s often simple but elegantly curving forms are inspired by modern architecture and traditional Japanese gardens. The pots will turn green and establish an aged appearance when left outside as the planters attract moss and lichens. Join us this week to hear more of Claire’s garden and container gardening journey. Most gardeners - of the indoor or outdoor variety… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/400123938 Thu, 15 Feb 2018 18:25:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8283764/best-of-cultivating-place-the-healing-power-of-gardens-with-author-and-gardener-clare-cooper-marcus 00:55:23 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The healing power of gardens and nature is well known to almost anyone who gardens and has been recorded by gardeners, landscape designers and medical practitioners as far back as antiquity. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Dr. Clare Cooper Marcus, a leader in the field of evidence based research, education and design of what are alternatively known as healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes. For photos visit cultivatingplace.com. The healing power of gardens and nature is well k… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/396188598 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 04:21:53 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8205229/land-and-water-a-conversation-and-upcoming-conference-with-hunter-ten-broeck 00:55:22 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we talk land and water with Hunter Ten Broeck of WaterWise Landscapes Inc. in Albuquerque, NM. No matter where we live, or how differently our land and our water supplies and sources may look, our gardens and our nature love are wholly interdependent with these two much larger elemental forces. For 25 years Hunter has been working in his garden design, garden crafting and educational advocacy to improve people’s relationship to and understanding of their own land and water. February 22 and 23, Hunter will be part of a the annual Land and Water Summit, produced by the Xeriscape Council of New Mexico. This year the theme is: The Ripple Effect - Stormwater and Tree Canopy. There’s lessons here for all of us, no matter where we live. Join us! This week on Cultivating Place, we talk land and … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/393007878 Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:45:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8135541/the-danger-garden-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-with-loree-bohl-of-portland-or 00:54:22 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Danger! Home gardener, garden communicator and blogger Loree Bohl, loves a garden with stand-out foliage and bold form. But pay attention to where you’re going, or as her mail carrier and her little dog Lila both know - it can be dangerous out there! As Loree writes on her blog: "Nice plants are boring – my love is for plants that can hurt you. Agave, yucca, anything with a spike or spur!” Join us this week for the next in our series of Dispatches from the Home Garden on Cultivating Place. Danger! Home gardener, garden communicator and bl… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/389498052 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:11:17 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8094904/cultivating-place-north-americas-largest-ecosystem-the-prairies-and-plains-with-brad-guhr 00:55:50 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Last week we talked "Little House on the Prairie" and this week we visit the grassland prairies and plains of Kansas. According to the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas and the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower center in Texas, Tallgrass prairie once covered between 170 to 250 million acres of North America – making it the largest ecosystem in the country. By 1860, the vast majority was developed and plowed under. Today less than 4% remains, mostly in the Kansas Flint Hills. We’re joined in conversation by Brad Guhr, education coordinator and prairie restoration ecologist for the Dyck Arboretum of the Plains in Hesston, Kansas. To learn more about this inspiring ecosystem based landscape. Join us. Last week we talked "Little House on the Prairie"… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/385572386 Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:32:55 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8094905/cultivating-place-happy-birthday-laura-ingalls-wilder 00:54:51 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we’re celebrating the February 7th birthday of Laura Ingalls Wilder with Author and historian Marta McDowell. Her newest book is: "The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books” (Timber Press, 2017) – a surprising plant and environmental journey. Laura Ingalls Wilder is a name familiar to most Americans born and raised in the 20th century. Her “Little House on the Prairie” series of children's books released from 1932 to 1943 were works of fiction based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family, in a time of rapid Westward Expansion and white settlement. The books were incredibly popular in their day and when they were made into a well-loved television series in the 1970s and 1980s they caught the imaginations of a whole new generation of readers. Certainly if you were a girl born in the second half of the 1900s in the US, you knew exactly who Ma, Pa, Mary, Carrie and Laura were. What you might not have been as aware of as a reader of the books in your formative years, was just how much ecological, agricultural and gardening information and history your were receiving wrapped up in these engaging human stories. Marta McDowell is an historian and author. Her books include “Emily Dickinson’s Gardens” and “Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life”, as well as “All the Presidents’ Gardens”. Her most recent book is “The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Frontier Landscapes that Inspired the Little House Books”. An historical and ecological exploration of a very specific time and place in American History, the book was published by Timber Press in 2017. On February 7th, Laura Ingalls Wilder would be 151. Join us! This week on Cultivating Place, we’re celebrating… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/382113818 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:52:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/8021567/cultivating-place-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-laura-christman-and-planet-pomegranate 00:53:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place our next in the occasional series of Dispatches from the Home Garden - this time through the lens of a regional newspaper's gardening columnist. Every region needs a paper and at least 1 regionally knowledgeable gardening columnist - Laura Christman was that person in Redding, California for the many years of her long career. "Perhaps you are familiar with the term "gardening." It is a tangle of weirdness. Turns out there's more to it than growing a lovely lawn or prolific pepper plant. Planet Pomegranate is a collection of columns written by journalist Laura Christman for the Home & Garden section of the Record Searchlight, the daily newspaper in Redding, California. The pieces are a mix of conversations, observation, reflections and frustrations…..and pomegranates." Join us! This week on Cultivating Place our next in the oc… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/378768440 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:23:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7948814/cultivating-place-a-seasonal-feast-for-the-senses-sarah-statham-of-simply-by-arrangement 00:55:08 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we start off the new year with some thoughts on life and our gardens as feasts for the senses, with an eye toward life-long learning and encouraging our own senses of adventure - with purpose. Sarah Statham of Simply by Arrangement has a passion for bringing fine seasonal flowers (grown, arranged and photographed) to the North of England – and the world. She shares with us her thoughts on process, on resolutions and on enjoying at least a short season of rest if you can. Join us. This week on Cultivating Place we start off the n… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/375802565 Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:25:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7873238/cultivating-place-a-new-year-vision-the-abiquiu-nm-garden-of-georgia-okeeffe 00:54:26 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Georgia O’Keeffe is known as the innovative mother of modernism in the art world. She was also a gardener. O’Keeffe's garden in Abiquiu, NM has always moved me as a visionary, gardener’s garden - one of those gardens of the mind, the hands, the heart and a place. To end 2017 with a flourish, exploring the nature of this human gardening impulse, and entering our own next turns on this great globe, we visit this visionary woman’s beloved garden. Join us. Georgia O’Keeffe is known as the innovative mothe… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/372729458 Thu, 21 Dec 2017 19:54:23 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7802939/cultivating-place-the-spirit-of-christmas-past-in-the-garden 00:53:46 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, a lesson in garden history seen through the lens of holiday decorations and traditions from seasons past when we’re joined by Laura Viancor, Head of Horticulture, from historic Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. Join us for the greens and other festive things. Happy holidays. This week on Cultivating Place, a lesson in garde… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/369509117 Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:18:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7726173/cultivating-place-in-the-night-garden-a-conversation-with-the-international-dark-sky-association 00:53:02 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week before the Winter Solstice, Cultivating Place is exploring and appreciating the many benefits and beauty of winter’s bountiful darkness – in our gardens and in our wildlands. Join us to listen to the conversation with Keith Ashley and Amanda Gormley of the International Dark-Sky Association, two passionate people within a global organization working to protect natural darkness as the precious natural resource it is. This week before the Winter Solstice, Cultivating… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/366294866 Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:42:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7648661/cultivating-place-bringing-nature-home-an-ongoing-entreaty-a-conversation-with-doug-tallamy 00:52:55 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by gardener, author, activist and entomologist, Doug Tallamy. Ten years ago, his first book "Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in our Gardens," made clear how important our own home gardens and landscapes COULD be to improving the outlook for insects, birds and all other wildlife – indeed for the very future and health of our planet. Join us. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by ga… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/363059033 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:39:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7571523/cultivating-place-holiday-blooms-a-conversation-with-thomas-broom-hughes-of-thomas-blooms-flowers 00:53:17 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we knock on the door of December, and the garden and its greenery call out to us in very different ways than they do in other seasons of the year, this week on Cultivating Place, we speak with British Gardener, Horticulturist and Floral designer Thomas Broom-Hughes of Thomas Bloom floristry and Petersham Nurseries. He has garden-gathered visions of luxurious winter beauty and traditions to share. Join us. As we knock on the door of December, and the gard… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/359910083 Thu, 23 Nov 2017 16:15:16 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7496675/cultivating-place-gratitude-in-the-garden 00:59:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The late autumn into winter months – from the Harvest Moon rising in October to the Winter Solstice on December 21st and through the beginning of the new calendar year, mark traditional seasons of gratitude, of giving thanks, and of offerings of generous service. For me, my garden itself and my gardening practice are my very best, most consistent acts of both gratitude and service to the world – and I know many other gardeners and cultivators who feel the same. The garden – very much like the grace that writer and thinker Anne Lamott references — rises to meet many gardeners where we are and — sometimes — it does not leave us where we started, but nurtures us along further than we believed was possible. This week on Cultivating Place I am so excited to offer you our first ever seasonal special celebrating this SEASON of harvest, of taking stock, of giving back, of deep GRATITUDE and of preparing for the restorative dark of winter ahead. In this one hour of gratitude and gardening practice and celebration, gardeners from around the world share with us what gratitude in the garden looks like to them. And, our central conversation will be with earth artist Day Schildkret, who makes meaning and beauty with his daily practice of Morning Altars. The late autumn into winter months – from the Har… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/356778896 Thu, 16 Nov 2017 20:35:58 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7421588/cultivating-place-tools-make-the-man-or-woman 00:50:27 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The right tools can make all the difference in our lives and in our work. This is as true in gardening as in all other aspects of life. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Dorian Winslow, president of Womanswork, a 35-year-old company which almost 33 years ago now introduced the first work and garden gloves designed specifically for women. Join us. The right tools can make all the difference in ou… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/350194618 Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:42:46 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7277476/cultivating-place-kiss-the-ground-the-hundreds-of-ways-to-do-just-this-with-finian-makepeace 00:51:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The 13th century Persian poet Rumi famously wrote: “Let the beauty you love be what you do, there are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” Ryland Engelhart and Finian Makepeace took these words to heart and in 2013 founded Kiss the Ground. Named in honor of the famed poem, Kiss the Ground works to restore soils worldwide by promoting and developing models that accelerate the adoption of regenerative agriculture — large scale and home scale. Healthy soil has the miraculous ability to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, and it’s not just carbon storage; the ways that soil stands to positively impact lives of billions worldwide are tangible and immediate: Clean water. Healthy food. Drought resistance. Restored habitats. You can download or subscribe to the Cultivating Place podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. For additional photos and more, visit CultivatingPlace.com. The 13th century Persian poet Rumi famously wrote… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/348715643 Thu, 26 Oct 2017 17:30:33 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7210353/cultivating-place-the-nurturing-plant-power-of-mama-maiz 00:50:41 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Nurturing – that’s what comes to mind when I think of the work of Blanca Diaz also known as Mama Maiz. Blanca is a practicing doula and herbalist whose work takes her around the country teaching and practicing plant based healing. She nurtures new mothers as they prepare to bring new life into our world, and she nurtures plants for their wisdom, healing and beauty. She nurtures community from the ground up sharing, as she says: “what she has been called and given permission to share.” Blanca believes in, studies and shares with others the power of plants, especially the native plants of our own regions and our relationships to them, in an effort to bring healing, well-being and greater understanding into our lives. Mama Maiz shares with Cultivating Place this week Join us. The show is available as a podcast on iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher. For photos and more, visit CultivatingPlace.com. Nurturing – that’s what comes to mind when I thin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/348432489 Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:01:49 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198732/best-of-cultivating-place-jinny-blom-the-thoughtful-gardener 00:50:43 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Uk based garden designer Jinny Blom, whose new book is entitled “The Thoughtful Gardener: an intelligent approach to garden design”. After 17 years and more than 250 gardens designed around the globe, Jinny shares with us her thoughtful, creative, musical and heartfelt perspective and process. Join us! You can download or subscribe to the Cultivating Place podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Uk… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/347504044 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:41:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198734/cultivating-place-california-native-plant-society-conservation-conference 00:44:17 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no No matter where you live, the native plants of that area help define the beauty, history and meaning of all life there – from the soil, to the birds and bugs and mammals – four legged and two legged. On Cultivating Place this week we’re joined by the California Native Plant Society to hear more about the state of our native plants and their upcoming Conservation Conference Jan. 30-Feb. 3, 2018. Join us! Read more and see additional photos at CultivatingPlace.com. No matter where you live, the native plants of th… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/347503925 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:40:49 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198736/cultivating-place-the-central-texas-gardener 00:49:30 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by a gardener who lives and works beneath the great, big beautiful Sky of Austin, Texas –one of many real gardening epi-centers in our country. Linda Lehmusvirta is a home gardener and gardening advocate in Austin, and as the Producer of a weekly program on KLRU-TV, PBS in Austin she is most well known as The Central Texas Gardener. Join us. Read more and see additional photos at CultivatingPlace.com. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by a… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/347503840 Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:40:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198738/cultivating-place-elizabeth-lawrence-and-her-southern-garden 00:48:53 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Elizabeth Lawrence was one of the grand dames of American horticulture in the 1900s. She was not only an avid gardener, but the first trained and licensed woman landscape architect out of the landscape architecture program at University of North Carolina, Raleigh. She designed, gardened and experimented with planting zones enthusiastically in her Charlotte, North Carolina, home and garden from the late 1940s through the mid 1980s. Perhaps most importantly, she shared her experiences and knowledge widely through her beautiful and plentiful garden writing in books, articles and correspondence with other gardeners and horticulturists around the globe. This week on Cultivating Place we're joined by Andrea Sprott, Curator since 2010 of the Elizabeth Lawrence House and Garden in Charlotte, NC, to hear more about the garden and an upcoming celebration of the garden, Elizabeth Lawrence and her legacy of garden writing. Join us! Elizabeth Lawrence was one of the grand dames of … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344027281 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:22:05 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198740/cultivating-place-the-healing-power-of-gardens-with-author-and-gardener-clare-cooper-marcus 00:50:20 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The healing power of gardens and nature is well known to almost anyone who gardens and has been recorded by gardeners, landscape designers and medical practitioners as far back as antiquity. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Dr. Clare Cooper Marcus, a leader in the field of evidence based research, education and design of what are alternatively known as healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes. Join us! The healing power of gardens and nature is well k… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344027164 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:21:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198742/cultivating-place-cutting-back-with-author-leslie-buck 00:50:21 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In the realm of gardenways and traditional garden design being inextricably interwoven with a culture, for me the garden design and techniques, and gardens associated with Japanese culture stand out. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Leslie Buck whose new book, “Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto,” recounts her experience during a three-month intensive apprenticeship with one of the most prestigious landscape and design firms in the storied city of Kyoto learning about her garden art form of aesthetic pruning, while at the same time learning much more about herself. Join us! In the realm of gardenways and traditional garden… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344027035 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:20:05 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198744/cultivating-place-gardens-of-the-wild-wild-west-lessons-from-pioneers-with-mary-ann-newcomer 00:48:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no When you hear the phrase "gardens of the wild, wild west," what comes to mind? For gardener, author and radio host Mary Ann Newcomer of Boise, Idaho, there’s a long history of intrepid plants, gardens and gardeners that come before her — from the first peoples to the settlers who traveled West as pioneers in the 1800s. On Cultivating Place this week, Mary Ann (AKA The Dirt Diva on the Boise radio waves) shares some of the lessons that we might learn from these histories of plants and plants people no matter where we garden. Join us! When you hear the phrase "gardens of the wild, wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026975 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:19:36 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198746/cultivating-place-leslie-bennett-pine-house-edible-gardens 00:52:13 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Leslie Bennett is a garden designer of both English and Jamaican descent working out of Oakland, CA. With a Jamaican-born husband, a two year old son, and knowledgeable, passionate views about the importance of cultural heritage, on cultivating Place this week, Leslie shares her journey navigating the marriage of beauty, function, cultural property and the radical activism of gardening. Join us! Leslie Bennett is a garden designer of both Engli… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026916 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:19:09 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198748/cultivating-place-land-on-fire-a-conversation-with-ecologist-and-author-gary-ferguson 00:49:37 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Late summer is fire season in the American West. A part of life. This week Cultivating Place speaks with Gary Ferguson, author of "Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West," a collection of scientific lectures about wildfire, which at their best serve as a window into the larger issue of our relationship to the natural world. Late summer is fire season in the American West. … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026847 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:18:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198750/cultivating-place-big-dreams-small-garden-a-conversation-with-marianne-willburn 00:50:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In my experience, no home and garden are just perfect. And yet, they are just right if we bring the right perspective. Author and gardener Marianne Willburn shares this belief and she joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about her own gardening journey, and lessons learned from her book Big Dreams, Small Gardens. In this life, we might be tempted to wait to plant our garden until we think we are in just the right space, Marianne urges us to reconsider this and to just get out there and do it. Now. Plant your garden now, no matter where you are. Join us for this lively conversation about the human impulse to garden. In my experience, no home and garden are just per… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026795 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:18:12 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198752/cultivating-place-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-emily-wilkins-seattle-wa 00:28:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we hear the next in our series of Dispatches from the Home Garden, this time from a north Seattle neighborhood where artist, gardener and aspiring vermicompost farmer Emily Wilkins tends to composting worms, awkward old maidens of shrubs. She starts and ends her days in the garden with in the company of family and some of her favorite friends – the plants, the worms and all manner of winged insects. Among them, she finds relief, satisfaction, joy and that at at the end of the day having your hands in the dirt is the very best part. Join us! This week on Cultivating Place we hear the next i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026750 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:17:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198754/cultivating-place-jinny-blom-the-thoughtful-gardener 00:50:43 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Uk based garden designer Jinny Blom, whose new book is entitled “The Thoughtful Gardener: an intelligent approach to garden design”. After 17 years and more than 250 gardens designed around the globe, Jinny shares with us her thoughtful, creative, musical and heartfelt perspective and process. Join us! This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Uk… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026699 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:17:11 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198756/cultivating-place-a-wide-angle-garden-design-education-with-katharine-webster 00:40:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no There's something to be said for having deep and historic roots to one region – one gardening and natural history home. I have an admiration for gardeners who’ve been born and raised in the historic home territories of their families before them, who have been working their own gardens for 20, 40 or 60 years. I have yet to live and work in the same garden for more than 7 years. And while I do envy these long tending one spot gardeners, I also see the benefits of having gardened in a wide variety of places, cultures, environments. I was born and raised at 8,000 feet in Colorado, but grew up regularly visiting extended family - and living myself - in a wide variety of environments across the country – from New York City and Boston, to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, the coast of Rhode Island, interior and coastal South Carolina, Northern Idaho, and the downtown's of Los Angeles, Seattle and St. Louis. You see my point. So while I celebrate those who’ve been able to build a relationship with one place for life, I've come to appreciate the kind of wide-angle education my family gave me on the differing look and feel of different places, and on the universal gardening/greening instincts you can start to see repeated by people in any location. This week on Cultivating Place, I’m joined by landscape designer, Katharine Webster. Now a resident of California's Bay Area, she grew up in the North East and spent summers on land and water in the 1000 Islands of Canada. She studied art, sculpture, and finally landscape architecture where she became compelled by the interface between the built environment and the landscape, finding power and meaning in the way that thoughtful and creative designers worked in this interface. With gardening internship experience in New York's Central Park and a family member/mentor who from an early age encouraged and taught her to really LOOK at the world around her, Katharine too has had a life offering a wide-angle landscape and garden education. Her early experiences and educational (formal and life education) journey lit a fire in her to shape landscapes. There's something to be said for having deep and … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026648 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:16:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198758/cultivating-place-the-wild-ornamental-buckwheats 00:53:52 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In life, there are generalists and there are specialists. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re speaking with botanist Dr. Ben Grady about his work with ornamental buckwheats and the upcoming Eriogonum Society conference in Weed, California. While you may not be familiar with the genus Eriogonum, I can promise you, once you meet these beautiful resilient native flowering plants, you’ll know they’re perfect for us generalist flower folk of American West (and all other summer dry regions of the world). In life, there are generalists and there are spec… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026590 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:16:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198760/cultivating-place-natural-selection-a-conversation-with-dan-pearson 00:50:26 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It is full on summer. Perhaps you are in the very middle of summer holidays here at mid-July. If you are like me, there is a special anticipation to the books of summer we choose to companion us on holiday, at least one of which has to be a garden book. The world of garden writing includes lushly photographed coffee table books, how-to books and garden literature, among others. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by British garden design luminary Dan Pearson to hear more about his newest book "Natural Selection: A Year in the Garden." A lovely work of the heart and the mind's eye, this work of garden literature makes for an enriching summer read. I’ll be traveling with a copy tucked into my beach bag this next week when I am on break. In our conversation, Dan shares about the book and his own gardening journey and philosophy. Join us! It is full on summer. Perhaps you are in the very… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026541 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:15:29 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198762/cultivating-place-cultivating-americas-gardens-smithsonian-gardens 00:51:49 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Over the past year of Cultivating Place interviews, we’ve heard references to the importance of the Smithsonian Gardens archives for the research of such historians, writers and gardeners as Marta McDowell while writing "All the President’s Gardens", as Andrea Wulf while she was writing "Founding Gardeners" and "The Invention of Nature", and as Ryder Ziebarth as she was working to document and preserve 5 generations of her family working and gardening on one piece of land. This past May, the Smithsonian Gardens – a branch of the Smithsonian Institution dedicated to enriching the Smithsonian experience through exceptional gardens, horticultural exhibits, collections, and education – launched a new exhibition entitled “Cultivating America’s Gardens”. The exhibition will be on view at the National Museum of American History through August of 2018. In honor of our country’s birthday this week, and the hand-in-hand role gardens play in the history of our country – this week on Cultivating Place I’m pleased to be joined by the curator of the exhibit, Kelly Crawford. In the second half of today’s program we’ll be joined by Cindy Brown, Manager of Education and Collections Management at Smithsonian Gardens to learn more about the gardens and their on-going mission and activities. Happy birthday to the United States of America – seems to me an exhibit celebrating our shared garden history is a perfect gift. Over the past year of Cultivating Place interview… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026444 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:14:33 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198764/cultivating-place-gardening-under-australian-skies-a-conversation-with-home-gardener-pen-pender 00:45:56 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, a conversation with a home gardener who has moved not just gardens, but continents and hemispheres. As we just reached the height of sunlight with our summer solstice, she eased into her winter. She shares a gardening story of learning, community and adaptability. Pen Pender is a gardener, mother, wife, voracious reader, community activist, bee keeper, cook and novice potter living near Mt. Macedon in Victoria, Australia. While I might never see kangaroos in my garden, and she may never hear the sound of a congregation of acorn woodpeckers, we are still gardening together in some sense. As she digs in and looks appreciatively up at winter over there, I dig in and look up in anticipation of a long hot summer over here. Pen shares her story of gardening under Australian skies. To read more or to see more photos of Pen Pender’s Australian garden, go to CultivatingPlace.com. You can download or subscribe to the Cultivating Place podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. This week on Cultivating Place, a conversation wi… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026385 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:14:00 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198766/cultivating-place-revisiting-the-cut-flower-garden-ahead-of-american-flowers-week 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Next week – June 28 to July 4 – our country is celebrating American Flowers Week, celebrating American-grown flowers in 50 states. In celebration, Debra Prinzing, the founder of what’s known as the Slow Flowers LLC — who we interviewed last July — has organized a Slow Flowers Summit in Seattle, Washington on Sunday, July 2. There will be speakers and activities – shared food, shared flowers and shared philosophy. It’s been called a TED Talk day for flower lovers. For more information on the summit, please visit Jewellgarden.com for links. In honor of the upcoming celebrations and the many benefits – emotional, economic and environmental — of locally grown flowers, this week on Cultivating Place we revisit an interview from earlier this year with a leader in the flower farmer renaissance underway: Erin Benzakein of Floret Flower Farms. Benzakien is the name and face behind the beautiful and impassioned Floret Flower Farms, based in the Skagit Valley of Washington state. Floret is at the heart of encouraging and educating would be flower farmers on the whens why and hows of getting started and making a go of this new-again small farm based industry which is rooting itself across the country and even around the globe. Erin’s new book "The Cut Flower Garden" – aimed at new and beginning flower farmers — is out now from Chronicle Books. She joins us today via skype from the farm. Next week – June 28 to July 4 – our country is ce… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026328 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:13:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198768/cultivating-place-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-a-father-daughter-garden-heritage-story 00:41:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In our last Cultivating Place "Dispatches from the Home Garden," we heard from a young gardener experiencing her first garden dislocation/relocation in Sacramento, California. This week – in many ways in honor of Father’s Day — we hear from another home gardener, this time in New Jersey and this time on the same land her grandparents cultivated and which she and her husband, with the steady help and mentorship of her father, became the fourth generation of her family to steward this land after her uncle died and the property went on the market. The 20 years since taking on the family farm has seen a lot of hard work, the restoration of some elements of the homestead and the re-envisioning of other elements. Barns have been stabilized, old rose borders are now mixed perennial beds, and what was once an outbuilding is now our home gardeners writing studio, her father has now died. Other things – including the legacy and spiritual presence of her father – have remained reassuringly similar. Sometimes our gardens are adventure stories in which we are on a vision quest to find out who we are. Sometimes they are our anchors to windward in reminding us who we are and where we came from. Sometimes they are both. Gardener, writer, wife, mother, and daughter Ryder Ziebarth shares her garden journey on Cultivating Place this week. Join us! In our last Cultivating Place "Dispatches from th… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026175 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:11:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198770/cultivating-place-an-edible-feast-edible-communities-publications-turns-15 00:50:14 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place we hear the story of the first 15 years of the Edible Communities – the umbrella name of the many publishers who bring you the edible communities publications across the US and Canada. Fifteen years ago, two women who cared about food, Tracey Ryder and Carole Topalian, published a 16-page, one-color newsletter to help connect the farmers in their area to the food-lovers in their area. That was the birth of Edible Ojai, and the beginning of what is now known as the Edible Communities publications – the rich look and face of local food across North America. Edible Communities, a James Beard Foundation award-winning family of 100 locally owned and licensed magazines devoted to the local food movement, is marking its 15th anniversary this Spring. Since the launch of Edible Ojai (California) in 2002, Edible Communities’ publications have become an influential voice in the food world by keeping focused and passionate about local food, how it’s grown and harvested, what defines regional flavors and trends, and how to prepare and present food in a way that’s rooted in local culture. This week Cultivating Place is joined by Nancy Painter, executive director of the Edible Communities media, from her offices in Maplewood New Jersey to hear more - join us! This week on Cultivating Place we hear the story … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026107 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:11:18 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198772/cultivating-place-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-urban-homesteading-and-a-garden-journey 00:45:54 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Gardening is a specifically human endeavor. It is a characterizing feature of our species, fairly well documented throughout our evolution. Which fascinates me. And each of us come to this endeavor for our own reasons and needs – sometimes very practical, sometimes very esthetic, sometimes spiritual. Our gardens are like some larger version of our very fingerprints. Today Cultivating Place welcomes a home gardening member of the so called “millennial” generation, and self-described Urban Homesteader. Despite having grown up around gardening, she did not begin to really absorb its importance and her own attraction to it until her own early adulthood. Today, she shares with us her journey so far, some of the lessons and highlights, her first experience leaving an established garden, and the opportunities presenting themselves to her in her new garden. Melissa Keyser, along with her husband Matt, have recently relocated from Santa Rosa, CA to Sacramento, CA. After four years spent building and establishing what they imagined to be their “forever home,” their journey has taken a twist. She is blogs about their pursuit of a sustainable urban homesteading life at sweetbeegarden.com. Listening to the story of Melissa and Matt’s gardening and homesteading journey I am struck by a couple of things – the first being that there is little new under the sun, but that the fun part is often part and parcel of discovering and learning some of these things for ourselves. The second thing I am struck by is hope. Each generation of horticulturists, gardeners and plant lovers will necessarily respond to the prevailing social, cultural, economic and political winds of their own moment in time, and for me there is beauty, taste and hope in their resourcefulness and resilience in doing just this. Gardening is a specifically human endeavor. It is… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344026044 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:10:45 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198774/cultivating-place-elevated-gardens-of-the-high-line-with-landscape-designer-rick-darke 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no What do we mean when we use the word “wild” and why does it matter? In 2017, the New York City urban landscape commonly known as The High Line celebrates its official 5th birthday. This milestone is being marked by the publication of a new book entitled "Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes" (Timber Press, 2017), coauthored by plantsmen Piet Oudolf and Rick Darke, with graphic design by Lorraine Ferguson. Oudolf is the renowned plantsman responsible for overseeing the planting design and plant choices, and Rick Darke has documented and collaborated on the project since its inception. "Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes" reflects decades of dedication to viewing gardens through the lenses of cultural geography and social anthropology. The specific garden design and plant choices of these now famed and highly visited gardens is of global interest and a primary focus of the new book. But the philosophy and design ethos underpinning the layered meaning in the book’s subtitle: elevating the nature of modern landscapes - is absolutely as compelling. Author, photographer, philosopher, and landscape ethicist Rick Darke joins Cultivating Place via skype this week to discuss both aspects of the High Line in greater depth. Join us! What do we mean when we use the word “wild” and w… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344025933 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:09:48 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198776/cultivating-place-paying-loves-celebrations-forward-with-floral-designer-melinda-benson-valavanis 00:27:29 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Melinda Benson-Valavanis is a floral designer and owner of MCreations in Chico, CA. She recently committed her business to participating in a project called re-bloom – in which she accepts the flowers from a wedding or other large event after the event is over and and re-purposes them for distribution to people and communities who might need a bit of floral energy and cheer in their lives. In this season of extravagant and joyful weddings, graduations, reunions and anniversaries – I can’t think of a better way to pay love and joy forward - and along to its next recipients. Melinda is with me this week on Cultivating Place from the North State Public Radio studios to share more. Join us! Melinda Benson-Valavanis is a floral designer and… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344025863 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:09:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198778/cultivating-place-heaven-is-a-garden-and-the-spirit-of-stone-with-author-jan-johnsen 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Jan Johnsen – a gardener, landscape designer and author of the books "Heaven is a Garden" and "The Spirit of Stone,” both published by St. Lynn’s Press. As a speaker for botanical garden show audiences, Jan loves to share her insights on the beneficial effects of informed garden design. Her unique approach — incorporating ancient practices with contemporary ideas — is entertaining, inspiring and informative. Join us! This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by J… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344025614 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:07:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198780/cultivating-place-earth-wisdom-john-muir-the-accidental-taoist-with-author-raymond-barnett 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Spring is a time of awakening and full sensory immersion in the world around us - even if we aren’t gardeners or nature lovers. It is hard to avoid, ignore or miss Spring’s reckless abundance and generosity. It is the perfect counterpoint to the winter’s restful, healing darkness and dormancy. In appreciation for all of spring’s growing energy, I am pleased to be joined this week by Dr. Raymond Barnett, author of “Earth Wisdom: John Muir, Accidental Taoist, Charts Humanity’s Only Future on a Changing Planet,” which he published in 2016. In this season of worsening news about our health of our world’s climate and ecosystems, and the seemingly ever more threatening nature of political abuse of what few protections we have in place for our water, air and planet’s diversity of life in the pursuit of in misguided financial “gain” - a book like this one catches my eye, my imagination and my heart. In our interview Ray shares the story of how he came to write the book and the his own journey of studying and embracing the ancient Chinese Taoist philosophy and his recognizing its tenets in his deepening study of John Muir over the past 5 years. What results is his comparing of Taoism and John Muir’s separate but interestingly parallel “immanent world views,” in which Ray sees profound hope for the life - and heart - of our world. Once understood and adopted, Ray believes, from this immanent world view - pillaging our earth’s natural resources, abusing or dismissing the equal importance of all of its many life forms, make no sense at all to anyone, no matter your political, spiritual or economic interest. In this "immanent world view” Ray sees “three pillars”: 1. That this earthly world is our true home - there is no better place, this is not a test; 2. that we as humans are equal to, and intimately related to all other living things. Humans are not “higher” and do not have “dominion” but are 1 part of a very complex and interdependent whole; 3. That in all of life there is a critically important balance always being calibrated between opposite energies - light and dark, hard and fluid, female and male, Yin and Yang, and that if any individual, culture, or ecosystem is out of balance and overly dominated by any one energy, then it is not healthy and will not be able to sustain itself over time. It is a compelling and thought provoking conversation - join us! Ray is the author of 7 previous titles, which encompass the varied fields of study for which he has not only deep passion, but also expertise, including: evolutionary ecology, particularly that of California, Natural History, mountaineering, traditional Chinese Language and Culture, mystery fiction and John Muir. Spring is a time of awakening and full sensory im… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344025501 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:05:54 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198782/cultivating-place-energetic-the-dynamics-of-biodynamics-at-fern-verrow-farm 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Close to 21 years ago, a Cordon Bleu trained chef and business woman named Jane Scotter left a busy city life in London and bought a farm. She was joined not long after by another professional chef, Harry Astley. Together the two have taken their 16 idyllic acres in Herefordshire, England and crafted a life fully integrated and interdependent with the land, its plants and animals, their food, their own sense of purpose and the energetic cycles of the moon and the seasons. Their farm - Fern Verrow - is not just any farm, it is a biodynamic farm and in 2015, Jane and Harry, with the photographic assistance of Tessa Traeger, produced a lushly reciped and photographed account of their energetic farming journey. I've always been fascinated by biodynamics - its earthy and yet other-wordly attributes and awareness, and I’ve been eager to learn more. As we near that universal and ancient celebration of land and re-growth, May Day, Jane and Harry join us this week on Cultivating Place. Original images by Tessa Traeger, the book "Fern Verrow" is published Quadrille Press. Close to 21 years ago, a Cordon Bleu trained chef… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344025440 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:05:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198784/cultivating-place-california-native-plant-week-a-conversation-with-dennis-mudd-calscape 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It is California Native Plant Week this week. Officially designated by the California Native Plant Society in 2010, this year the festivities and educational and awareness activities are scheduled all week April 15–23. In celebration of this and in honor of the many native landscapes I love, and native plants that bring beauty, life and a deep sense of place to my home garden, this week I am pleased to welcome Dennis Mudd to Cultivating Place. Dennis is a retired tech industry CEO and developer of such things as MusicMatch and Slacker Radio. He is also an avid native plant home gardener in Poway – near San Diego. In an effort to improve his own native plant home gardening efforts, five years ago now Dennis teamed up with the California Native Plant Society and The Jepson Herbarium to create the now extensive easy to use, online gardening resource known as Calscape. Join us to hear more! It is California Native Plant Week this week. Off… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344025369 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:04:42 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198786/cultivating-place-useful-with-a-pleasant-degree-of-humor-the-old-farmers-almanac-turns-225 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no “Useful, with a pleasant degree of humor” — that is the tag line for the Old Farmer’s Almanac, an annual handbook for American growers, farmers and gardeners — celebrating its 225th year in publication this year. Every year for the past 225 years, farmers, gardeners, landholders and growers of all kinds have been consulting the Old Farmer’s Almanac for weather predictions, growing suggestions and important dates based on — among other things — astronomy. On Cultivating Place this week, we’re joined by Janice Stillman, the 13th editor and first female editor of the Old Farmer’s Almanac to hear more. Join us! “Useful, with a pleasant degree of humor” — that … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344025256 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:03:56 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198788/cultivating-place-the-garden-conservancys-2017-open-days-directory-with-laura-wilson 00:27:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no If you’re like me, you love getting out into your own garden, but visiting someone else’s garden is almost as good — there’s just less weeding required. The end of March/beginning of April is also the unofficial kick off of garden-visiting season, with garden tours and open garden days on local, regional and national levels, and of all shapes and sizes, getting started now and running right through to November in some parts of the country. While open gardens and garden tours are hosted by organizations large and small, and individuals both famous and obscure, there are few open garden days as well known or well organized across the US than the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Laura Wilson, recent past West Coast coordinator of the Garden Conservancy’s National Open Days Scheme. The 2017 Open Days directory will be out by the end of March letting those of us who love such things know where, when and which gardens are open around the country. Each year my directory has more pages dog eared than the last year. Join us! If you’re like me, you love getting out into your… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344024894 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 23:01:01 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198790/cultivating-place-the-chinese-kitchen-garden-with-wendy-kiang-spray 00:27:58 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Gardenways and "The Chinese Kitchen Garden" - a conversation with gardener and author, Wendy Kiang-Spray I am fairly accustomed to hearing the phrases “folk ways” and “food ways” and even ‘music ways” to describe the history, traditions, and myths associated with these subject areas in distinct locations or cultures. Only recently have I come to think of the history and traditions one brings to the garden or gardening as our “garden ways” – and the garden ways of other people are endlessly fascinating to me as one lens by which we see the world/one lens by which others can learn something of importance about us and who we are. When my children were small, we had a fabulous story book entitled: “The Ugly Vegetables”, written by author Grace Lin, whose parents were Taiwanese immigrants to the United States. In this children’s books she shares the universal concept of what makes us different and what brings us together through a young girl’s uncomfortable recognition that the garden her Chinese mother was growing was very different from the gardens being grown by their neighbors. The girl keeps asking her mother why she is growing such ugly and unusual vegetables when everyone else is growing beautiful flowers and so called “normal vegetables”. Her mother keeps saying – just wait. Ultimately, her mother’s long season vegetables ripen and are harvested and her mother makes the most delicious aromatic soup – the scent of which wafts throughout the neighborhood and brings the neighbors running, bearing gifts of flowers. The whole neighborhood then shares a meal of the amazing soup. The experience of reading this book with my children was transformative for me – and was hands down the first time I was consciously aware of the fact that we all have different garden ways and these are full of rich information. And, as a side effect, I’ve wanted to grow Chinese vegetables ever since. And make something that brings people together. When I saw an announcement about the early 2017 publication of writer, gardener Wendy Kiang-Spray’s first book “The Chinese Kitchen Garden” (2017, Timber Press) I knew I wanted to talk to her. Wendy joins Cultivating Place this week from the studios of NPR in Washington DC. Gardenways and "The Chinese Kitchen Garden" - a c… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344024299 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:56:40 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198792/cultivating-place-harvest-stefani-bittner-alethea-harampolis 00:23:32 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Sometimes when you use the word garden – people immediately conjure up images of the ornamental perennial border, other people however conjure up colorful visions of the summer vegetable garden. In July of 2016, we were joined by Stefani Bittner of Homestead Design Collective discussing her work as ornamental edible landscape designer. Early in 2017, her most recent and beautiful book, Harvest, was published by 10 Speed Press. Stefani co-wrote Harvest – Unexpected Projects Using 47 Extraordinary garden Plants with Alethea Harampolis. We’re celebrating the new publication and the upcoming growing season by revisiting our summer-time interview with Stefani. Enjoy. Stefani Bitner is co-owner with fellow plantperson, floral and garden designer Alethea Harampolis of Homestead Design Collective based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their newest book, "Harvest - Unexpected projects using 47 Extraordinary Garden Plants" came out this spring from Ten Speed Press. Sometimes when you use the word garden – people i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344024120 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:55:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198794/cultivating-place-the-irish-garden-with-fionnuala-fallon-correspondent-for-the-irish-times 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It is the eve of St. Patrick’s Day and it does seem that even if you’re not Irish per se, St. Patrick’s Day brings out a little bit of Irish in us all. And while I have no interest in green beer, I do have an interest in the green of the garden. To celebrate this – today we’re pleased to be joined by Fionnuala Fallon, a horticulturist, garden writer, garden designer and organic flower farmer, and gardening correspondent for 'The Irish Times' since 2011. Her first book, photographed by her husband Richard Johnston, "From the Ground Up: How Ireland is Growing Its Own" was published by Collins Press in 2012. It is the eve of St. Patrick’s Day and it does se… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023973 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:54:06 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198796/cultivating-place-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-christin-geall-victoria-bc 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Every garden has a story as does every gardener. In our next in the occasional series of Dispatches From the Home Garden, today we travel to the Pacific Northwest and cross the border to Canada, where we speak with a gardener, writer and floral designing flower farmer who joins us via skype. Christin Geall is the founder of Cultivated, an urban flower farm and design studio, and a literary gardening column which appears every two weeks in the Black Press group of newspapers. Christin also teaches creative non-fiction at the University of British Columbia in Victoria. She and I enjoy a conversation about her internationally inspired and trained, thoughtful gardening journey from avid home gardener to professional floral designer, urban flower farmer, and workshop host/mentor. Christin is a gardener who loves a challenge and prefers unusual and old-fashioned varieties of flowers and plants. I love this quote from her: “Appreciate the fact that you wouldn’t be a gardening at all if you weren’t the type to run long on hope. Love this about yourself and let go.” Every garden has a story as does every gardener. … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023917 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:53:28 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198798/cultivating-place-the-cut-flower-farm-erin-benzakein-and-the-flower-farmer-revolution 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no There is a flower farming revolution sweeping across our country and I for one am all for it. A few months back, Cultivating Place was joined by Debra Prinzing, the founder of the aptly named “slow flowers” and "American Grown Flower" movement in the floral industry. This week we’re joined by Erin Benzakien – the name and face behind the beautiful and impassioned Floret Flower Farms, based in the Skagit Valley of Washington State. Floret is at the heart of encouraging and educating would be flower farmers on the whens, whys and hows of getting started and making a go of this new-again small farm-based industry, which is rooting itself across the country and even around the globe. Erin’s new book "The Cut Flower Garden," aimed at new and beginning flower farmers, is out this month - March - from Chronicle Books. There is a flower farming revolution sweeping acr… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023779 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:52:20 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198800/cultivating-place-presentation-is-everythingthe-garden-based-pottery-of-artist-frances-palmer 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As gardeners or naturalists, we often share an urge to display our love – flowers or fruits of the season arranged in bottles and vases, in bowls and on platters. The deep beauty of the harvest and the season have a strong call. As gardeners who harvest food and flowers, as nature lovers who gently forage fallen moss, lichen, stones, feathers, or cooks who prepare our fruits, vegetables and foraged edibles we all experience that moment – perhaps daily of saying: what will I put that in? What vase, large or small, what dinner plate, what cake plate, what bowl? Thirty years ago, Frances Palmer answered this question in its various forms with this answer: I will set my table with items I have hand formed from an idea in my imagination, from the energy of my hands from the earth beneath my feet. Almost ever since, her hand thrown and built terra cotta, porcelain and earthenware creations have been sought after by gardeners, cooks, floral and tablescape artists. This week I am joined by Frances Palmer to hear more about the symbiotic relationship between her garden and her art. She joined us via Skype from her studio in Weston, CT. As gardeners or naturalists, we often share an ur… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023695 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:51:34 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198802/cultivating-place-the-roses-have-it-early-spring-rose-care-and-rose-societies-with-jolene-adams 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Late winter early spring might be kind of quiet in the garden in terms of flowers, but it is very busy in terms of plant care – especially in the care of keeping of our roses. Roses are a favorite of many gardeners, a staple of many gardens, they have been cultivated, celebrated, bred and judged for more than 5,000 years around the world. Roses can and are grown just about anywhere in the world. Their history and mythology runs deeply through the roots of cultures around the world. Roses are among the pluralists of the world. They can be ancient or modern, they can be brassy and bright or elegant and understated. They can be edible, native, tenaciously perennial, fragrant, large, small, climbing, cuttable and endlessly arrangeable. The roses have it all. And late winter, early spring is an active time for caring for your roses: everything from choosing and planting bare root selections to pruning and feeding your established roses. This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Jolene Adams, a recent past president of the American Rose Society, an active rosarian and dedicated home gardener with more than 150 roses in her Hayward, CA home cottage garden. Late winter early spring might be kind of quiet i… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023601 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:50:47 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198804/cultivating-place-dispatches-from-the-home-garden-1-christl-findling 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Have you ever noticed how every garden has a story? No matter how many gardeners might have worked that spot: just 2 - for instance mother nature AND you, or multitudes: you and the many who known or unknown may have worked that ground before you – the land you cultivate, hike, or gaze at, has a story. Likewise, every gardener has a story – no matter how many gardens they’ve cultivated or at what point in their lives they came to their engagement in gardening or love of natural history - there are stories there. Figuratively, these stories might take the form of haikus, a well-crafted short story, a rambling run-on sentence, or an epic novel. But as Alfred Austin famously said: Show me your garden and I’ll show you who you are. In the first year of Cultivating Place, I heard a good lot of feedback from listeners and friends. One piece of feedback from a friend was this: “I want to hear from real home gardeners, too, what they’re doing, what they’re thinking, how they cope.” I liked the idea of this kind of sharing – a kind of Dispatches from the Home Garden. While every garden and every gardener have this act of cultivation in common, they are all necessarily different in their living details. We all have fingerprints, and they are all unique. I think something meaningful is learned in sharing both our commonalities and our differences. This week we’ll hear from the very friend that sent this feedback/request. She sent it more than once, so it only seemed fair that she would help to craft and kick off our Dispatches from the Home Garden story time. In the interest of full disclosure, she is one of my oldest friends in the world: Christl Findling - satellite builder and home gardener from Lookout Mountain, Colorado. Join us! Have you ever noticed how every garden has a stor… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023516 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:49:59 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198806/cultivating-place-the-nature-fix-how-nature-makes-us-happier-healthier-and-more-creative 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no “Anyone who’s gazed at the moon or stood still in a magnificent stand of trees knows what it’s like to experience the Power of Awe – it seems to slow time, proffer reverence for life and connect us to one another. Recent research shows that when we spend time outside in nature, engaging all our senses, our heart rates slow, our stress hormones dip, our thoughts grow both more expansive and less self-focused.” This week on Cultivating Place, award winning author Florence Williams discusses her newest book “The Nature Fix – How Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative," which is out on shelves from Norton the first week of February. Having grown up in New York City, Florence went on to spend a large part of her professional writing career, which focuses on science, the environment and health, till now living in or close to the wide open wild spaces of the West - notably Colorado. When her husband’s career took their young family to Washington DC, she found herself experiencing a depression and irritability that ultimately led her to a curiosity about the physical, emotional and intellectual effects of access to nature on not just her but the human body and soul as a whole. The Nature Fix is the story of her researching and reporting on the scientific research going on around the globe into this question. Join us! “Anyone who’s gazed at the moon or stood still in… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023390 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:48:50 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198808/cultivating-place-digging-deep-fran-sorin 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Digging deep: this is a phrase that has a wide variety of meanings and uses – both literal and figurative — in the garden, and in the body, mind and heart. In a new year, many of us have a tendency to generate a to-do list of tasks and projects to start, to get in order or to finally this year complete in our lives – and if we are gardeners, our gardens are not left out of this energetic attention and intention. To help integrate some of this energy — shore up your resolve and energize your physical, spiritual and artistic muscles — this week I am joined by Fran Sorin, “best-selling author, unshakeable optimist, coach and CBS radio news contributor.” In 2004, with a well-established career in garden design, garden journalism and garden coaching, Fran published, “Digging Deep – Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening.” In 2016, a new revised edition of the book was published. Digging deep: this is a phrase that has a wide va… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023293 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:48:03 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198810/cultivating-place-eliot-coleman-and-the-four-season-harvest 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no It is mid-January. It is deep mid-winter, even in my relatively mild USDA zone 9, Sunset zone 8. While I am fortunate enough to have a year-round Saturday farmer’s market available to me, my own home garden is looking spare. Which is at it should be this time of year, but it could be looking a little less spare while still remaining seasonally appropriate. One of MY New Year’s resolutions is to strive to do a little better on this front. After the calendar year 2016, I would like to feel a little more self-reliant. Call me crazy - I’m starting with adding a few raised vegetable beds to my little home garden. For a little refresher course, I pulled out my trusty-old “The Four-Season Harvest” by Eliot Coleman (Chelsea Green, 1992), which was formative to my first on-my-own adult garden in the 1990s. Today, I am joined by Eliot Coleman, esteemed plantsman, gardener and author based in Harborside, Maine, where he lives and gardens year round at Four Season Farm. Eliot and his wife, Barbara Damrosch (a noted gardener and garden writer herself — perhaps you follow her regular contributions to The Washington Post?) were early proponents and continue to be enthusiastic advocates for growing your own seasonally appropriate, sustainably tended, food year-round — no matter where you live. Eliot is also the author of "The New Organic Grower" and “The Winter Harvest Handbook." It is mid-January. It is deep mid-winter, even in… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344023123 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:46:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198812/cultivating-place-river-partners 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As a celebration of the many ways that one’s cultivation of place can benefit not only the individual cultivator – gardener or naturalist – this week on Cultivating Place I’m joined by John Carlon, president of River Partners, a nonprofit organization working to create wildlife habitat for the benefit of people (economically and environmentally), water (quality and conservation), wildlife and the wider environment (including benefitting agricultural productivity and quality) by restoring successional riparian corridors throughout watersheds of the Western United States. As a celebration of the many ways that one’s cult… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344022872 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:44:57 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198814/cultivating-place-sunset-western-garden-test-gardens-with-editor-johanna-silver 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Happy New Year! For over 100 years Sunset magazine has been inspiring gardens and gardeners in the American West. This year marks the first full year for Sunset’s gorgeous, innovative new demonstration and display gardens at Cornerstone Sonoma. Join me this week when Cultivating Place converses with Sunset’s Garden Editor Johanna Silver - inspiring New Year’s resolutions for garden living. Join us. Happy New Year! For over 100 years Sunset magazin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021993 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:37:23 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198816/cultivating-place-heidrun-sparkling-mead 00:29:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no There is something inherently satisfying about a full circle – a completion – a beginning brought to its fullness and coming to its natural end, which leads right into the next beginning. This full circle satisfaction is true for cycles of the moon, cycles of the seasons and cycles of the field and garden. For me this is especially apparent at the Winter Solstice and, of course, the full circle of a calendar year. It’s long been customary to celebrate the year’s end by toasting to the old and welcoming the new with a glass of something bubbly – and I decided Cultivating Place should too – but not just any bubbly, rather one that is deeply grounded in this cultivation of place and all its systems and intricacies we find so vital and fascinating. A glass of bubbly that embodies and is as interdependent with the soil, water, wildlife and plant life of place as we are. So what better bubbly than the most ancient of fermented spirits, nectar of the gods — honey-based mead. To that end, and to new beginnings, today, I am joined by Gordon Hull, mead maker and owner of Heidrun Meadery – makers of dry, sparkling mead based in Point Reyes, California. There is something inherently satisfying about a … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021911 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:36:40 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198818/cultivating-place-michael-kauffmann-founder-and-editor-of-backcountry-press 00:27:29 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no In this season of the winter solstice — marked by the beauty and appreciative contemplation that mark the celebrations of winter holidays the world around, I very much wanted this week's Cultivating Place to acknowledge the diversity, value and fragility of our native plants and their communities. No matter where you garden or cultivate place now, or where you might have done so throughout your life, the native plants of any place are what signify, identify and root that place as its own. Native plants — ornamental, edible or useful, common, rare or endangered — all cultivation and gardening is based upon the native plants of somewhere. This week, I honor the native plants of my place — the native plants of California, one of the world's biodiveristy hotspots, with more native and endemic plants than certainly anywhere I've lived or gardened before now. To help me in this celebration of the plants of our own places, my guest today is Michael Kauffmann, editor-in-chief of Backcountry Press and author of several books exploring the natural history of some signature plants of the western forest, including — so seasonally appropriate — "Conifer Country, Conifers of the Pacific Slope" and "A Field Guide to Manzanitas,” one of our native broadleaved evergreens. As of January 2017, Michael is also the editor of Fremontia, the journal of the California Native Plant Society. In this season of the winter solstice — marked by… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021830 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:35:52 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198820/cultivating-place-in-bloom-creating-and-living-with-flowers-ngoc-minh-ngo 00:27:29 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The famous British gardener and writer Vita Sackville-West stated that no room is ever complete without flowers. This week on Cultivating Place we explore this idea with Vietnamese-born New York Based photographer and writer Ngoc Minh Ngo. Her most recent book “In Bloom – Creating and Living with Flowers” beautifully portrays the imaginative and surprising ways in which 11 different artists and thinkers around the world weave their love of flowers into their everyday lives. The famous British gardener and writer Vita Sackv… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021764 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:35:21 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198822/cultivating-place-emily-dickinson-poet-gardener 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Emily Dickinson references plants, flowers, nature or her garden in more than one-third of her known poems, with many more references in her extensive correspondences with family and friends. Flowers and nature provided her with both “inspiration and companionship.” In celebration of the poet’s upcoming birthday, this week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Jane Wald, executive director of the Emily Dickinson Museum, who’s overseeing current research and restoration of the Dickinson’s historic home garden and conservatory. Join us! Emily Dickinson references plants, flowers, natur… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021690 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:34:43 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198824/cultivating-place-stephen-orr 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no The term “herbal” refers to far more than a soothing tea or tasty spice. An herbal is a book or otherwise codified collection of knowledge about the use of plants for food or medicine. Dating back as far as ancient Egypt, Sumer and China, there are more herbals published every year. On Cultivating Place this week, I’m joined by Stephen Orr, editor-in-chief of Better Homes & Gardens and author of "The New American Herbal," published by Clarkson Potter/Random House in 2014. The term “herbal” refers to far more than a sooth… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021632 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:34:15 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198826/cultivating-place-winter-craft 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Every year about this time, the light wanes, the temperatures drop and we as people draw in a bit, hunker down and begin whatever we can of a winter dormancy. For gardeners and non-gardeners alike, I think, there is a human urge to sometimes craft our garden plants, branches, flowers, seeds, cones and fruit into other, artful and unique creations — for doorways, for gates, for windows, for tabletops. For me this urge is particularly strong in fall and winter. Perhaps it’s an effort to preserve the beauty; perhaps it’s an urge to celebrate and give thanks for the abundance. Or both. For Thanksgiving Day on Cultivating Place, we pay homage to this urge and this age-old tradition when we’re joined by two artists who have an eye, hand and heart for just this kind of craft. Join us as we “gather” and “season to taste” a variety of seasonal plant crafts with gardener, stylist and photographer Caitlin Atkinson, author of "Plant Craft” (2016, Timber Press), and Alethea Harampolis, floral designer at Studio Choo and coauthor of "The Wreath Recipe” (2014, Artisan Books) about the traditional and not so traditional practice of crafting wreaths (and swags and branches). Join us! Every year about this time, the light wanes, the … ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021564 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:33:39 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198828/cultivating-place-qayyum-johnson-farm-manager-green-gulch-farm-zen-center 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no As we enter a traditional two-month period marked by celebrations of giving thanks, this week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Qayyum Johnson, farm manager of Green Gulch Farm Zen Center in Marin, CA. Practicing in the Zen Buddhist tradition and farming 7 acres of cool season crops, Qayyum explores with us the connection between the back breaking physical labor of farming and the cultivation of awareness, generosity and thanksgiving in our minds and spirits. Join us! As we enter a traditional two-month period marked… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021508 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:33:10 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198830/cultivating-place-arlington-national-cemetery-memorial-gardens-and-arboretum 00:29:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no This week on Cultivating Place, we speak with Steve Van Hoven Chief Arborist and Horticulture Supervisor of Arlington National Cemetery, Memorial Gardens and Arboretum. This historic landscaped national military cemetery sits on the location of what was once the home estate and gardens of General Robert E Lee and his wife Mary Custis Lee in Arlington, Virginia. More than 400,000 veterans are laid to rest there, among many gardens and more than 8.600 trees. In 2015 Arlington was accredited with LEVEL II arboretum status. This week on Cultivating Place, we speak with Ste… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021441 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:32:37 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198832/cultivating-place-garden-history-blithewold-and-the-country-place-era-garden 00:28:01 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Gardens can be important repositories for cultural and environmental history. From the plants included to materials used — you can read a great deal about time and place in any garden. This might be particularly true of gardens created and cared for at the turn of the 19th century in England and the United States — a time marked by the unprecedented expanding financial, journalistic and horticultural wealth of the industrial age. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Gail Read, garden manager of Blithewold, to explore the history embedded in any garden. Blithewold, which is Welsh for “ Happy Wood,” is a nationally significant Country Place Era house, garden and arboretum on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay. Gardens can be important repositories for cultura… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021357 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:32:01 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198834/cultivating-place-the-garden-conservancy 00:27:53 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Gardens and landscapes, gardeners and gardening are integral to our cultural literacy and sense of place and self as a nation. In 1989 Frank Cabot founded the Garden Conservancy in the United States in an effort to preserve exceptional gardens and landscapes for the future. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by George Shakespear of the Garden Conservancy to hear more about its work, including its garden education and conservation mission as well as its dynamic Open Days program, which brings access to many, many other private gardens across the country each year. Several episodes ago, Cultivating Place spoke with the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, California. That remarkable garden resulting from one woman’s passion and dedication became the garden that essentially launched the Garden Conservancy – an American nonprofit organization founded in 1989 by Francis Cabot. The conservancy is dedicated to preserving exceptional gardens and landscapes for the future. Gardens and landscapes, gardeners and gardening a… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021215 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:31:02 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198836/cultivating-place-sustainability-in-prisons-project 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no I don't know about you, but for me the garden grounds me, at the same time that it liberates me. Being out in nature - in the garden or on the trail - opens my mind and heart, settles me down while simultaneously teaching me about and connecting me to nature, science and humanity. For some, the combination of grounding, expansion and liberation that can be gleaned from a greater understanding and connection to the natural world is crucial and valuable in even more immediate ways. This week on Cultivating Place, Kelli Bush and Carl Elliott of the Sustainability in Prisons Project in Washington State join us from the studios of KOAS Community Radio on the Evergreen State College campus. Kelli is the Program Manager for the Sustainability in Prisons Project, Carl is the project’s Conservation Nursery Manager. I don't know about you, but for me the garden gro… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021138 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:30:27 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198838/cultivating-place-thomas-rainer-and-planting-in-a-post-wild-world 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Thomas Rainer is a “horticultural futurist fascinated by the intersection of wild plants and human culture." A landscape architect by profession and a gardener by obsession, Rainer is co-author of “Planting in a Post-Wild World,” (Timber Press 2015). He joins Cultivating Place this week to explore what gardening in a post wild world looks like and why, despite collective wounds and losses, there’s hope and beauty to be found in the cultivation of resilient plant communities in any place large or small we might find to plant them. Hope you’ll listen! Thomas Rainer is a “horticultural futurist fascin… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344021073 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:29:52 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198840/cultivating-place-ruth-bancroft-and-her-epic-dry-garden 00:28:01 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Every garden has something to teach me – truly. About plants, about people, about space and light and place. I recently had the pleasure of visiting the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, CA – the result one dedicated gardener woman’s life-long curiosity and admiration for cacti and succulents as she gardened in a dry climate. The garden started in the early 1950s as a private collection of potted plants. By 1972, the collection had outgrown its location and was moved to its current site, which at the time was an old walnut orchard. After being seen by the founder of the Garden Conservancy, Frank Cabot in the late 1980s, the Ruth Bancroft Garden became the first in the United States to be preserved by The Garden Conservancy. Open to the public since 1972, the garden remains an outstanding example of a Dry Garden. On Cultivating Place this week, we’re joined by Gretchen Bartzen, Executive Director of the Ruth Bancroft Garden to hear more. "The Bold Dry Garden - Lessons from the Ruth Bancroft Garden", is a new book out from Timber Press about the life and garden of a remarkable plantswoman, Ruth Bancroft and her epic cacti and succulent garden in Walnut Creek California. The book is written by Johanna Silver, Garden Editor for Sunset magazine, and is gorgeously photographed by Marion Brenner. Every garden has something to teach me – truly. A… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344020848 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:28:14 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198842/cultivating-place-gardening-for-sustainable-cloth-and-community 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Some people garden for food, some people garden for beauty, and some people garden and farm for cloth. Sandy Fisher is a weaver and fiber artist who since 1980 has literally interwoven her artistic eye, her impulse to garden, her love of natural fibers and natural dye colors to create functional art. An appreciator of beauty and all its textures and colors and patterns, Sandy Fisher is a co-founder of the Chico Flax Project and Chico Cloth, both of which will be represented at the annual Fiber Fusion celebration this coming October at the Patrick Ranch in Chico. The Chico Flax Project is a young initiative experimenting with grow flax in order to produce a locally-grown linen. On Cultivating Place this week, Sandy — artist, weaver gardener, and in many ways activist — shares with us her journey of gardening for sustainable cloth. Some people garden for food, some people garden f… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344020812 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:27:48 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198844/cultivating-place-heirloom-bulbs-with-scott-kunst-of-old-house-gardens 00:28:00 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Today is the Autumnal Equinox. If gardening at its core is an activity of optimism, then planting fall bulbs is one of its most profound gestures of hope wherein you plant something that looks like next to nothing and then some months later – perhaps when you might need it most — it appears out of the cold, damp earth and then — it blooms. This week Cultivating Place is joined by Scott Kunst, founder and soon to be retiring owner of Old House Gardens — purveyers and champions of heirloom bulbs varieties from around the world and throughout time. Today is the Autumnal Equinox. If gardening at it… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/344020707 Mon, 25 Sep 2017 22:26:53 +0000 https://feedpress.me/link/14945/7198846/cultivating-place-with-a-little-help-fine-gardening-and-fine-gardeners-a-new-generation 00:27:59 Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place no Does simply removing your lawn bring you up to speed as a gardener? Have you noticed how when a lawn is replaced with a garden, some homeowners approach these new gardens with the same mow and blow management technique they afforded their prior lawns, while others seem to assume these are static installations and leave them to their own devices of overgrowth, weeds or death. Into this gap comes a brave new crop of fine gardeners – and they are not what they used to be. This week Cultivating Place is joined by Jenn Simmons, who will talk to us about the path to becoming and the benefits of seeking the help of a fine gardener. Jenn Simmons is a home gardener, and garden manager/fine gardener for Ruskin Gardens in Palo Alto. Does simply removing your lawn bring you up to sp… ]]> gardening, plants, natural history Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place