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

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, naturalist, educator...

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

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

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 shorter, cooler. With da...

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

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 Cultivating Place with M
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

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 off their summer ea...

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 of the best seed seas...

“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 of a rick diversity o...

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

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

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 that I hold our garden
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

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 world, and we gardene...

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

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...

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 years. In 2018, a Ge...

In this our final episode in a casual series on ways by which we as natural history loving gardeners gather, learn and grow together - this week we’re joined...

In our on-going series on ways by which we as natural history loving gardeners keep ourselves informed, and up to date with all manner of life long learning ...