This week I am thankful for good food, and the many souls who grow it for us all year long – around the world, really, but This week we...

Native Sycamore love in late season foliage, late day light. It is the thankful season. In a year and a time where what divides us, what...

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...

Fall and early winter are the perfect time in much of the Northern Hemisphere to plant bulbs, woody shrubs and trees, herbaceous...

Last week we looked at Gardens and History through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden History through...

Just in time for All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, and Day of the Dead - this week we explore the green, sacred, and communal space of a...

This week we explore some farmer and seasonal food connections with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and grower/producer...

As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy and beginning to consider next season, forward planning, this week we...

In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, we’re joined this week by...

Native evening primrose greeting the Autumnal Equinox sunrise, somewhere near Cathedral Valley, UT Ingathering – I like this word – its...

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...

Ernesto Alvarado is a Mexican-born, Southern-California based native plant and seed teacher and student. He is currently the Native Plant...

September, October, and November are traditional harvest celebration months in the Northern Hemisphere from variations on Octoberfests to...

As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd here in the Northern Hemisphere, we enter a period of time full of sacred...

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...

In our final episode focusing on gardens that are dedicated to being ecologically rich and contributing back to the places in which they...

At a time when our gardens large or small often feel more important than ever, I think our focus on exactly what our gardens contain and...

Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby...

One entrance to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, Bar Harbor, Maine In the long hot, dry, summer, often accentuated by the acute...

This week we continue our high elevation garden lens in Vail, Colorado at The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, leaders in the research and...

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...

Hannah Gardner is a gardener, writer, and mother – she is a garden designer and plantswoman with a passion for traveling the world to...

David Godshall is a landscape architect, gardener and meta garden philosopher making his way with his young family and his Terremoto LA...

Bonnie J. Clark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of...