PRESERVATION & TRANSFORMATION: SAN FRANCISCO'S GREENHOUSE PROJECT, w/ CAITLYN GALLOWAY
San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing...
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May 26, 2022
THE POWER OF LOCAL GARDEN KNOWLEDGE: IN THE COASTAL GARDEN, with LYONS FILMER & SUSAN HAYES
This Cultivating Place program is dedicated to two plantspeople in my region who have now passed to the great gardens and trails beyond....
Apr 21, 2022
EARTH DAY - PARKS FOR THE NATURE OF EVERYONE, OLMSTED200
In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the...
Apr 1, 2022
THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI
John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...
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...
Feb 3, 2022
COMING TO FRUITION, FRUITION SEEDS, PETRA PAGE-MANN
Petra Page-Mann is a green growing force. She is also co-founder with her husband Matthew Goldfarb (as well as with the many people and...
Jan 20, 2022
THE PALESTINE HEIRLOOM SEED LIBRARY, VIVIEN SANSOUR: BEST OF
In this first month of the new year, I once again offer out the hope of Vivien Sansour's work and the hope of seeds – to bind us more...
Jan 13, 2022
JOHNNY'S SELECTED SEEDS with DAVE MELHORN, CEO & LAUREN GIROUX, PRODUCT SELECTION/TRIALING
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes...
Jan 6, 2022
THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON
To welcome the new year, we stay with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane...
Nov 4, 2021
GARDEN HISTORY & HINDSIGHT, LONDON'S GARDEN MUSEUM with DIRECTOR CHRISTOPHER WOODWARD
Last week we looked at Gardens and History through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden History through...
Oct 28, 2021
GREEN & SACRED SPACE, MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, with DAVE BARNETT
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...
Oct 21, 2021
GROWING FLAVOR - PAST & PRESENT, CHEF DAVE SMOKE MCCLUSKEY's CORN MAFIA
This week we explore some farmer and seasonal food connections with Chef Dave Smoke McCluskey, founder of Corn Mafia, and grower/producer...
Sep 16, 2021
SEASONS OF OUR JOY (BREATH OF LIFE), RABBI ARTHUR WASKOW
September, October, and November are traditional harvest celebration months in the Northern Hemisphere from variations on Octoberfests to...
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 25, 2021
GARDENS IN TIME & SPACE: LAURA EKASETYA, LURIE GARDEN, CHICAGO
Having just moved across the seasonal threshold of the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, this week we continue our focus on...
Feb 11, 2021
LUNAR NEW YEAR, with TAWAINESE AMERICAN PLANTSMAN ERIC HSU
In honor of Lunar New Year which begins with the new moon on February 12th and lasts until the next full moon arrives at the end of the...
Dec 4, 2020
A HANDFUL OF FORTITUDE & GRATITUDE, TERESA SABANKAYA
In a year in which gardeners and other humans alike are having to meet and process and pivot around and over and beyond a wide variety of...
Sep 17, 2020
FOR THE LOVE OF PLANTS, with HORTICULTURIST WAMBUI IPPOLITO
Wambui Ippolito loves plants – she has loved them since she was a young girl with strong land-and plant based family history going back...
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...
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