Cultivating Place
Episodes
Cultivating Place: The Garden Conservancy
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 fou...
Cultivating Place: Sustainability In Prisons Project
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 -...
Thomas Rainer And 'Planting In A Post-Wild World'
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Rainer is a “horticultural futurist fascinated by the intersection of wild plants and human culture." A landscape architect by profession and...
Ruth Bancroft And Her Epic Dry Garden
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Gardening For Sustainable Cloth And Community
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
Cultivating Place: Heirloom Bulbs With Scott Kunst Of Old House Gardens
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Cultivating Place: With A Little Help: Fine Gardening And Fine Gardeners, A New Generation
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
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 approa...
Cultivating Place: Removing Lawn, Becoming a Gardener
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the ongoing drought in the state of California, the state and many municipalities have offered incentives for homeowners and businesses...
Cultivating Place: Kelly Comras, Landscape Architect, Historian, And Author
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Landscape architects create outdoor spaces with intention and thought. While the effects are often unnoticed consciously, they are absorbed and experi...
Dr. Peter Raven – Plant Biology And The Conservation Of Biodiversity
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Peter Raven is one of the leading plant biologists in the world today, having begun his botanical and natural history journey falling in love with...
Cultivating Place: Sasha Duerr — Rich, Healthy Pigments From The Garden
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's late summer. The light is shifting incrementally each day now — tilting toward a new season. I notice especially in those transitory, crepuscul...
Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, Author Of 'When Mountain Lions are Neighbors'
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Cultivating Place, life in the garden gets a little more wild when we speak with Beth Pratt-Bergstrom, California director of the Nationa...
Cultivating Place: Stefani Bittner And The Beautiful Edible Garden And Its Multilayered Harvest
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes when you use the word garden – people immediately conjure up images of the ornamental perennial border. Other people, however, conjure up ...
Cultivating Place: Humble Roots Nursery
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Kristin Currin is owner and founder with her husband Drew Merritt of Humble Roots Native Plant Nursery in Mosier, Oregon. Situated at the interface b...
Debra Prinzing And The Slow Flowers Movement
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Cultivating Place this week welcomes Debra Prinzing, the producer of slowflowers.com, the online directory to American flower farms, and florists, sho...
Cultivating Place: Marta McDowell, "All The Presidents' Gardens"
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this election year, and with the Independence Day holiday just past, we have something of a patriotic garden theme going. This week, we’re joined...
Cultivating Place: Gardens For Heroes
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Are you a person who takes refuge in the natural world or your home garden? If so, then you appreciate the many benefits of these for regrouping from ...
Cultivating Place: Genny Arnold And California Native Bulbs
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Genny Arnold, Seed Program Manager at the Theodore Payne Foundation who speaks with us about the car...
Cultivating Place: Jessica Lundberg, VP of Administration at Lundberg Family Farms
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The impulse to garden is prismatic, right? It's about connection, about beauty, about plants, about productivity and self-sufficiency, about health an...
The Xerces Society and Gardening For Butterflies (And Other Invertebrates!)
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Flower gardens grow flowers, vegetable gardens grow vegetables, and, yes, butterfly gardens grow butterflies. This week on Cultivating Place we’re j...
Cultivating Place: Andrea Wulf
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder how a plant got its name? Or for whom it was named and why? Those are the sorts of questions that started historian and author Andrea Wulf...
Cultivating Place: Ernie Wasson And Salvias
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Salvias are among my favorite of flowers. Do I say that about a different plant group just about every other week? It could be. Let’s say then that ...
Cultivating Place: Mia Lehrer And Urban Landscapes
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that human development impacts nature, and that the most developed of human spaces — cities — without any nature in them, negatively i...
Cultivating Place: Native Plants And California Flora Nursery
25 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing says place like the cultivation and caring for the plants native to your place. As gardeners we hear a lot about native plants. This is perhap...
Cultivating Place: Robin Parer And Geraniaceae
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have particular plant groups you like more than most? Because of family history or where you live, perhaps? The Geranium family of flowering pl...
Cultivating Place: Bloomin' Hope And 'The Language Of Flowers'
22 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes flowers, gardens and nature speaks to us. Sometimes we employ them to speak on our behalf. What do our gardens and flowers say to the world?...