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FOR THE LOVE OF (BUG) LIFE, ENTOMOLOGIST NADIA RUFFIN

Nadia Ruffin, MS, is an entomologist, gardener and educator. She is the founder of Agricademy Inc, Quiwi Produce, and Urban Farm Sista ba...

NAVIGATING BY PLANTS: ULI LORIMER & THE NATIVE PLANT TRUST

Uli Lorimer is director of Horticulture for the Native Plant Trust in Massachusetts. His work as a native plant and biodiversity advocate...

DR. ELAINE INGHAM, WOMEN WORKING IN THE WORLD OF PLANTS #3

This week, in the midst of chaos and questioning, Cultivating Place’s Women’s History Month interviews get to the very basics of horticul...

CONSIDER THE LILIES, NATURALIST & EDUCATOR JOE JOE CLARK

As we ring in the New Year of this New Decade with the power of 2020 ours for the making, this week Cultivating Place welcomes gardener, ...

SEEDLINGS: THE GROWING POWER OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

With what we put into our heads – with words, tones of voice, visualizations verbally painted, melodic mnemonics deployed - we learn the w...

BEST OF: IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE, DR. LAUREN E. OAKES

In this early December mini-pledge drive week here at North State Public Radio, I wanted to revisit our earlier conversation with Dr. Lau...

ALL THE HERBS OF THE SEASON with SUE GOETZ

We’re past the fall back time change here in the US and for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere generally the days are noticeably shor...

FIRESCAPING: IN HONOR OF THE ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE CAMPFIRE, with DOUGLAS KENT, CALLI-JANE DE

Almost one year ago, on November 8th 2018, the CampFire broke out in Butte County California Cited as the deadliest and most destructive w...

BEST OF: DARING TO BE WILD - MARY REYNOLDS AIMS TO BUILD AN A-R-K

Welcome to the North State Public Radio Fall Pledge Drive – which I thought was a good time indeed to revisit a Best of Program from Cult Guide your land into becoming a thriving, living wild sanctuary for as many creatures as possible. Wake up and don’t turn away. Nobody else is going to do this work. The system is broken, badly caught in a web of its own making. This is a different type of web weaving. It is a web of interconnected life, interconnected magic and hope. We a

IN SEARCH OF THE CANARY TREE, and other THOUGHTS ON RESILIENCE, DR. LAUREN E. OAKES

Here in my part of the world, it’s back to school time! Lower schools, high school and university students, faculty and staff are shaking...

BEST OF: TO BE A SEED KEEPER: ROWEN WHITE, SIERRA SEEDS

As we head into the month of the September, and we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox later in the month, I am reminded of this being one o...

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: WILD YARDS PROJECT, DAVID NEWSOM

“the minute our daughter was born, I suddenly became aware of this howling urban center that’s just 70 feet from my house, and the lack o...

ROBIN WALL KIMMERER: ON GARDENING AND CITIZENSHIP

On this Fourth of July – I'm honored to be in conversation with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdo...

FOR THE LOVE OF (BUG) LIFE, ENTOMOLOGIST NADIA RUFFIN

Nadia Ruffin, MS, is an entomologist, gardener and educator. She is the founder of Agricademy Inc, Quiwi Produce, and Urban Farm Sista ba...

DARING TO BE WILD - MARY REYNOLDS AIMS TO BUILD AN A-R-K

The idea of our gardens as habitats is not new to you or to me and my emphasis here on Cultivating Place; it’s no secret to any of you th Guide your land into becoming a thriving, living wild sanctuary for as many creatures as possible. Wake up and don’t turn away. Nobody else is going to do this work. The system is broken, badly caught in a web of its own making. This is a different type of web weaving. It is a web of interconnected life, interconnected magic and hope. We a

THE NATURE GARDENS - THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, with CAROL BORNSTEIN AND LILA

In this our 5th (but not quite final – see more below) in our 5-part series on our gardens as critically important habitat in a wounded w...

THE HUMMINGBIRD MONITORING NETWORK, with DR. SUSAN WETHINGTON

Hummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creature of the America’s, the more than 350 species of hummingbirds have coevolved with the f...

THE MIGRATORY BIRD GARDEN & MORE HABITAT, THE SHEDD AQUARIUM with CHRISTINE NYE

For this week’s third episode in our 5-part series on our gardens as healthy habitats, and we gardeners as important land stewards and bi...

MONARCHS & MILKWEEDS, DR. ANURAG AGRAWAL, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, HABITAT GARDENS #2 of 5

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

THE XERCES SOCIETY & BEE CITY USA, SCOTT BLACK & PHYLLIS STILES - HABITAT SERIES #1 of 5

The news goes from bad to worse when we’re talking about biodiversity, wildlife, and overall insect declines in our world in the past 25 ...

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