Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...

In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...

Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...

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

Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda Tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California. A...

As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in...

Matt Hall is a husband, father, and gardener deeply interested in how our cultural mythologies can produce and support cultures of...

Today we revisit a Best of Dispatches from the Home Garden episode. We do this in part because I love this episode, because it is...

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

Seeing the world through plant-colored glasses: Linnea Hanson is a career field botanist, and founder of Northern California Botanists....

As an exercise in intimacy – this week on Cultivating Place, we open the New Year with a breathtaking and heart-wrenching visit to some...

BEST OF: IN THE SUMMER NIGHT GARDEN with THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION LISTEN TO THE PODCAST This week's Best of CP conversation...

THE UNSETTLING CASE OF THE POACHED DUDLEYA, JULIE NELSON & MICHAEL KAUFFMANN LISTEN TO THE PODCAST The unsettling case of the poached...

"THEN I WISHED THAT I COULD COME BACK AS A FLOWER": SUMMER AT THE US BOTANIC GARDENS with EXHIBITS SPECIALIST DEVIN DOTSON AND MURAL...

AN EDUCATIONAL URBAN OASIS, KEVIN JORDAN, LEO PALMITER SCHOOL - SACRAMENTO, CA LISTEN TO THE PODCAST It is now officially summer vacation...

'FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF', WITH FILMMAKER THOMAS PIPER LISTEN TO THE PODCAST The name Piet Oudolf is one of those rare...

THE HUMANE GARDENER with NANCY LAWSON LISTEN TO THE PODCAST The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word Humane as this: "Being...

SOCIAL JUSTICE: A REFLECTION GARDEN, SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY LISTEN TO THE PODCAST It is with both a heavy and a hopeful...

DISPATCHES FROM THE HOME GARDEN: A TEA GARDEN IN TIVOLI LISTEN TO THE PODCAST "Unprecedented – Never to Happen Again." This Zen idiom...

ART IN THE GARDEN: LAND-BASED INKS AND PAINTS with IRANIAN-AMERICAN ARTIST MELODY OVERSTREET LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Art in the garden, art...