Cultivating Place

The Kitchen Garden Revival, With Nicole Johnsey Burke Of Gardenary

09 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

While we head into another month under social distancing and self-isolation restrictions in order to flatten the curve of the novel coronavirus COVID-...

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

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Wom...

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

20 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

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

12 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Women’s History month on Cultivating Place continues this week with Andrea DeLong-Amaya, Director of Horticulture at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflowe...

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

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 M...

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

27 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 As...

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

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ho...

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

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Horticu...

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

30 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 Networ...

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

23 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, Marta McDowell

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

09 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 g...

Consider The Lilies, With Naturalist Educator Joe Joe Clark

02 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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, h...

Seedlings - The Growing Power Of Children's Literature

26 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 c...

On FLOWERS with Amy Merrick

19 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Since time immemorial flowers have accompanied humans on our journeys – this week Cultivating Place welcomes the divine Amy Merrick, writer, florist...

The Scentual Garden, Ken Druse

12 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 to...

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

06 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 cli...

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

28 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 justic...

Talking About A Revolution, A Foodscape Revolution With Brie Arthur

21 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week – heading swiftly into the winter holiday season good food cooking and baking and communing – Cultivating Place is joined by grow-your-o...

All The Herbs, With Sue Goetz

14 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

07 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 De...

Mastering The Art Of Being A Plantsman, With Matt Mattus

31 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

From his "Growing with Plants” blog to his first book "Mastering the Art of Vegetable Growing”, which he researched, photographed and wrote – pl...

Garden Cartography - Misti Little, The Garden Path Podcast

24 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Misti Little is an environmental consultant working in GIS services. As a naturalist, gardener, explorer and fellow garden audio producer, she (and he...

Cultivating A Gardening Culture - With Home Gardener Tucker Fitzpatrick

17 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

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

10 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

03 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 explorati...

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

26 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

"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 –...

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

19 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Dean Kuipers has studied and written about the field of environmental politics and the human-nature relationship for decades. His most recent book "...

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

12 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 m...

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

05 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 cli...

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

29 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

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

22 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Alpine and Steppe plants are uniquely interesting individuals and communities of plants that thrive in extreme conditions of high elevations and dry l...

Plant Me A Rainbow, Meg Herndon And Sandra Nam Cioffi

15 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On Cultivating Place this week, we speak with two Landscape Architects who came together to create and offer out to the gardening world beautiful, fun...

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

08 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Reading A Landscape, Courtney Allen Of The Native Plant Trust

01 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This week we dive deep into a conversation on being more observant in our places with historic preservationist Courtney Allen, Director of Public Prog...

TO BE A PLACEMAKER With Gardener And Spiritual Memoirist Christie Purifoy

25 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 gain...

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

18 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

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

11 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 se...

Robin Wall Kimmerer On Gardening And Citizenship

05 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

On this Fourth of July – Cultivating Place is pleased to be in conversation with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigeno...

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

27 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

A Father Daughter Horticultural Conversation with Robert & Catherine Hanss

20 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Hanss and his daughter Catherine are a father-daughter duo in the Northeast working together to create and care for gardens and horticulture tr...

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

13 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

09 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 injusti...

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

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For many gardeners, Margaret Roach will need no introduction. Longtime Garden Editor of Martha Stewart Living and Editorial Director of Martha Stewart...

The Happy Wanderer: The Journey Story Of Plantsman Bob Hyland

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Truth, Beauty, Chaos And Plants: THE PLANTHUNTER Australia

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

TRUTH, BEAUTY, CHAOS & PLANTS - May Day is upon us and we celebrate in conversation with Australian gardener and writer - Georgina Reid. Based in Aust...

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

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Nature Gardens At The Natural History Museum of LA County

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 visi...

Hummingbirds In Our Gardens, With Dr. Susan Wethington

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

05 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ch...

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

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

In 2018, scientists reported dramatic losses in populations of one of North America’s most charismatic insects, the Monarch butterfly, with an estim...

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

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 n...

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

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 wee...

Gather, Learn, Grown: The Garden Bloggers Fling

08 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 Ju...

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

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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, trai...

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

21 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 r...

Wave Hill And The Lifelong Learning Of Gardeners

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gardeners and naturalists are remarkably ardent self-directed, life-long learners and doers. And the winter season is well-adapted to gardeners’ con...

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

07 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

As an early Valentine to this garden life and plant loving community, Cultivating Place offers out a conversation with Melina Sempill Watts, author of...

Fire Recovery Guide, With CNPS

31 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 u...

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

25 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

For Sara Bir – food librarian, forager, chef and author – fruit are sweet, delicious, sexy and tactile – but every bit as important – they amo...

Plant-Colored Glasses: A Botanist's Life

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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...

An Exercise In Intimacy: Turning Into Flowers

03 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

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 Tu...

Floral Tete A Tete Fun For The New Year

27 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 creativ...

Recalibrating Our Nervous Systems & Floral Artistry With Max Gill

20 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 designe...

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

13 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Seasonal Garden Book Round Up

06 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

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

03 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

22 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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. Thanksgivin...

Gratitude & Morning Altars BEST OF

18 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Cultivating Place, we revisit our Gratitude Special of last year - celebrating this season of harvest, of taking stock, of giving back, o...

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

13 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 anc...

Soul Fire Farm – Ending Racism In The Food System

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

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

25 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

"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...

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

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There’s an ancient association between the botanical world and the inspiration it provides to artists of all kinds. For our Botanical Artistry serie...

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

12 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

There’s an ancient association between the botanical world and the inspiration it provides to artists of all kinds. For our Botanical Artistry serie...

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

04 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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...

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

27 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 Valle...

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

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 S...

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

13 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Cultivating Place, the second installment in the Seeds of September four part series – when we’re joined by plantswoman, seed advocat...

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

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

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

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Tools Make The Man — Or Woman, Best Of Cultivating Place

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 C...

In The Night Garden With The International Dark-Sky Association, Best Of Cultivating Place

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week on Cultivating Place, we spend a little time revisiting our conversation exploring and appreciating the many gifts of darkness with the Inte...

Gardening Under Australian Skies, A Conversation With Pen Pender, Best Of Cultivating Place

14 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Leslie Bennett & Pine House Edible Gardens, Best Of Cultivating Place

02 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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,...

The Garden In Every Sense And Season

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 g...

New England Wild Flower Society

19 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The New England Wild Flower Society is one of the oldest native plant conservation organizations in the country and represents the New England states....

Beth Chatto Garden & Garden Symposium

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In May of this year, the gardening world – specifically the ecologically based gardening world – lost one of it’s great leaders, Beth Chatto. Th...

The Case Of The Poached Dudleya

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re joined by two native plantspeople – Julie Nelson and Michael Kauffmann - to delve into the unsettling case of the poached Dudleya ...

Wallflowers - Nekisha Durrett and the U.S. Botanic Garden

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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, exh...

National Pollinator Week With Biologist Dave Goulson

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

On Cultivating Place today we celebrate National Pollinator Week in the US when we’re joined by British biologist, conservationist and Professor of ...

School Gardens: Kevin Jordan & Leo Palmiter's High School Garden Program

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It is now officially summer vacation for most public school districts in the US. Today, Cultivating Place takes a little field trip to visit Sacrament...

Five Seasons - The Gardens Of Piet Oudolf

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the global gardening world, Piet Oudolf is synonymous with a naturalistic planting style - rich in sweeps of grouped flowering perennials (often No...

The Humane Gardener With Nancy Lawson

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word Humane as this: Being characterized by consideration of other, compassionate. This week on Cultivating ...

Memorial Day - A Reflection Garden, Southern CT State University

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Entryways of Civility, Pathways of Kindness: A Reflection and Social Justice Garden on the Campus of Southern Connecticut University in New Haven, CT....

A Tea Garden In Tivoli, Dispatches From The Home Garden

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Unprecedented – Never to Happen Again. This Zen idiom refers specifically to the transient nature of time and each and every moment no matter how se...