THE KLAMATH MOUNTAINS, A NATURAL HISTORY (AND A LOVE STORY), MICHAEL KAUFFMANN & JUSTIN GARWOOD
This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023, by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region...
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- Apr 7, 2022
SAGING THE WORLD, PREPARING FOR CA NATIVE PLANT WEEK, ROSE RAMIREZ & DEBORAH SMALL
Rose Ramirez is a California native plant gardener, basketweaver, photographer, and educator of Chumash descent; Deborah Small is an...
- Mar 24, 2022
A SCIENTIST'S QUEST FOR NATURE'S NEXT MEDICINES, DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE
In today’s world of synthetic pharmaceuticals, Dr. Cassandra Quave believes our connection to the natural and plant world is in fact our...
- Dec 23, 2021
A CONSERVATION OF GENEROSITY & RELATIONSHIPS, GARY PAUL NABHAN
Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan brother based in Patagonia,...
- Jul 8, 2021
FINDING SOLACE IN THE SOIL: GARDENS & GARDENERS OF AMACHE, JAPANESE AMERICAN PRISON CAMP
Bonnie J. Clark is a professor of anthropology at the University of Denver. Her new book Finding Solace in the Soil, Archaeology of...
- Jul 1, 2021
CULTIVATING INTENTION: ALI MEDERS-KNIGHT, MECHOOPDA MAIDU
Ali Meders-Knight is a Mechoopda Tribal member whose traditional and present homelands are based in interior Northern California. A...
- Mar 12, 2021
BALANCED SYSTEMS THINKING & TEK, Lorena Gorbet, Maidu Summit Consortium
As the vernal equinox is imminent for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, a conversation on balance and our importance as humans in...
- Jul 16, 2020
THE POWER OF BOTANICAL MYTHOLOGY with MATT HALL
Matt Hall is a husband, father, and gardener deeply interested in how our cultural mythologies can produce and support cultures of...
- Jan 25, 2019
BEST OF: THE DANGER GARDEN, LOREE BOHL
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...
- Jan 18, 2019
FRUIT: THE CURRENCY OF MEMORY, SARA BIR
For Sara Bir – food librarian, forager, chef and author – fruit are sweet, delicious, sexy and tactile – but every bit as important –...
- Jan 10, 2019
PLANT-COLORED GLASSES, A BOTANIST'S LIFE: LINNEA HANSON & NORTHERN CA BOTANISTS
Seeing the world through plant-colored glasses: Linnea Hanson is a career field botanist, and founder of Northern California Botanists....
- Jan 3, 2019
AN EXERCISE IN INTIMACY: TURNING INTO FLOWERS, SOUTH AFRICA
As an exercise in intimacy – this week on Cultivating Place, we open the New Year with a breathtaking and heart-wrenching visit to some...
- Aug 16, 2018
BEST OF: IN THE SUMMER NIGHT GARDEN with THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION
BEST OF: IN THE SUMMER NIGHT GARDEN with THE INTERNATIONAL DARK-SKY ASSOCIATION LISTEN TO THE PODCAST This week's Best of CP conversation...
- Jul 5, 2018
THE UNSETTLING CASE OF THE POACHED DUDLEYA, JULIE NELSON & MICHAEL KAUFFMANN
THE UNSETTLING CASE OF THE POACHED DUDLEYA, JULIE NELSON & MICHAEL KAUFFMANN LISTEN TO THE PODCAST The unsettling case of the poached...
- Jun 28, 2018
"THEN I WISHED THAT I COULD COME BACK AS A FLOWER": SUMMER AT THE US BOTANIC GARDENS
"THEN I WISHED THAT I COULD COME BACK AS A FLOWER": SUMMER AT THE US BOTANIC GARDENS with EXHIBITS SPECIALIST DEVIN DOTSON AND MURAL...
- Jun 14, 2018
AN EDUCATIONAL URBAN OASIS, KEVIN JORDAN, LEO A. PALMITER SCHOOL - SACRAMENTO, CA
AN EDUCATIONAL URBAN OASIS, KEVIN JORDAN, LEO PALMITER SCHOOL - SACRAMENTO, CA LISTEN TO THE PODCAST It is now officially summer vacation...
- Jun 7, 2018
'FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF', WITH FILMMAKER THOMAS PIPER
'FIVE SEASONS: THE GARDENS OF PIET OUDOLF', WITH FILMMAKER THOMAS PIPER LISTEN TO THE PODCAST The name Piet Oudolf is one of those rare...
- May 31, 2018
THE HUMANE GARDENER, with NANCY LAWSON
THE HUMANE GARDENER with NANCY LAWSON LISTEN TO THE PODCAST The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word Humane as this: "Being...
- May 24, 2018
SOCIAL JUSTICE: A REFLECTION GARDEN, SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
SOCIAL JUSTICE: A REFLECTION GARDEN, SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY LISTEN TO THE PODCAST It is with both a heavy and a hopeful...
- May 17, 2018
DISPATCHES FROM THE HOME GARDEN: A TEA GARDEN IN TIVOLI
DISPATCHES FROM THE HOME GARDEN: A TEA GARDEN IN TIVOLI LISTEN TO THE PODCAST "Unprecedented – Never to Happen Again." This Zen idiom...
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