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...
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Mar 10, 2022
GARDENS BY & FOR REFUGEES: IRC's DENVER-BASE & REGENERATION NOW
This week, a timely and rich with agency conversation on gardens by and for refugee populations.Areti Athanasopoulos is a Denver,...
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,...
Nov 18, 2021
KINSHIP & BELONGING IN A WORLD OF RELATIONS: BEST OF
In our world at this time, I give thanks for the leadership voices that ground us in innovative ways of thinking and seeing our own power...
Sep 23, 2021
PLANTING A BRIDGE FOR OUR WORLD, with ERNESTO ALVARADO
Ernesto Alvarado is a Mexican-born, Southern-California based native plant and seed teacher and student. He is currently the Native Plant...
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...
Sep 9, 2021
LENSES ON THE EVERYDAY & SEASONALLY SACRED with LONDON BASED PHOTOGRAPHER KRISTIN PERERS
As we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox on September 22nd here in the Northern Hemisphere, we enter a period of time full of sacred...
Aug 12, 2021
THE ORDER OF ENERGY, THE URBAN FOOD FOREST OF MATTHEW TRUMM,
Many gardeners will remember with delight reading Gaia’s Garden by author and activist Toby Hemenway, originally published in 2001. Toby...
May 27, 2021
ON REFUGIA: GROWING CONNECTION
Just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania a team of plant folks known as Refugia is growing connection among places and people from...
Feb 18, 2021
TO THE FOREST: MIDORI SHINTANI, DAN PEARSON & THE TOKACHI MILLENNIUM FOREST
As Lunar New Year celebrations continue, we travel to Japan to celebrate an amazing project known as The Tokachi Millennium Forest. Dan...
Feb 5, 2021
MAKING A LIFE, BY HAND, with MELANIE FALICK, BEST OF
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...
Jan 28, 2021
TU B'SHEVAT, NEW YEAR OF THE TREES, KAREN FLOTTE
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...
Dec 17, 2020
IMAGINE: A CONVERSATION WITH FARMER/FLORIST/DAUGHTER, AMBER TAMM
In honor of the Solstice on December 21st and the important pivot in seasonal time that it represents, rest, dark, and dormancy in the...
Dec 10, 2020
SOMETHING WILD & COMPOSED FOR WINTER, with HORT & POTT
This week, as tend toward the winter solstice, we continue our exploration of garden and seasonally based winter cheer here in the...
Oct 15, 2020
VIRIDITAS & ATTACHMENT GARDENING with SUE STUART-SMITH
When it comes to creativity – mother nature and the human brain are both pretty good. For Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist Sue Stuart...
Sep 3, 2020
BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL: THE LITTLE GARDENER, with JULIE CERNY
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...
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 31, 2020
Sanctuary: Red Bird Restorative Gardens with P. Annie Kirk Healing Gardens Series #1
Sanctuary. Healing. These seem to be things the whole world needs. And things we are looking for, in varying degrees of urgency and from...
Jan 23, 2020
GROWING (AND BUILDING) EMPOWERMENT: FRAILTY MYTHS, ERINN CARTER & GEORGIA FAYE HIRSTY
"Frailty Myths offers workshops for women, trans, and gender non-conforming folks that provide a transformative experience through our...
Dec 26, 2019
SEEDLINGS: THE GROWING POWER OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
With what we put into our heads – with words, tones of voice, visualizations verbally painted, melodic mnemonics deployed - we learn the...
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