Ernesto Alvarado is a Mexican-born, Southern-California based native plant and seed teacher and student. He is currently the Native Plant...

September, October, and November are traditional harvest celebration months in the Northern Hemisphere from variations on Octoberfests to...

As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd here in the Northern Hemisphere, we enter a period of time full of sacred...

Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby...

Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a team of plant folks known as Refugia is growing connection among places and people from...

As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Japan to celebrate an amazing project known as The Tokachi Millennium Forest. Dan...

Hey – Ok I had to jump in this week to say this: HAPPY BIRTHDAY to CULITVATING PLACE – we are 5 years old this month. With more than 300...

This week we lean into the spirit of the season and the traditional Jewish festival Tu B’Shevat, or New Year of the Trees, in...

In honor of the Solstice on December 21st and the important pivot in seasonal time that it represents, rest, dark, and dormancy in the...

This week, as tend toward the winter solstice, we continue our exploration of garden and seasonally based winter cheer here in the...

When it comes to creativity – mother nature and the human brain are both pretty good. For Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Sue Stuart...

In this very unusual back to school season here in the US, we’re joined this week by Julie Cerny a gardener, an outdoor enthusiast and...

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

Sanctuary. Healing. These seem to be things the whole world needs. And things we are looking for, in varying degrees of urgency and from...

"Frailty Myths offers workshops for women, trans, and gender non-conforming folks that provide a transformative experience through our...

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

"It’s sort of beautiful – Lucky – It feels like a lucky orientation to be constantly thinking: 'Oh what’s happening out there, what’s...

This week we kick off a multi-episode series looking at the work of native plant organizations and gardeners on the ground and around the...

What does it mean to be a placemaker – what is learned, what is lost, what is gained in the making of any place. Today we consider the...

"I have said to the worm: thou art my mother and my sister," William Blake, The Complete Illuminated Works In honor of Mother’s Day here...