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    THE GENEROSITY & MUTUAL CARE OF SEEDS: KEN GREENE OF HUDSON VALLEY SEED COMPANY
    • 3 days ago

    THE GENEROSITY & MUTUAL CARE OF SEEDS: KEN GREENE OF HUDSON VALLEY SEED COMPANY

    Ken Greene – who goes by K - is a seed person. He is the co-founder of the Hudson Valley Seed Library, which in 2004 became the first...
    NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK & POLLINATION ECOLOGY with DR. MONIKA EGERER
    • Jun 24

    NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK & POLLINATION ECOLOGY with DR. MONIKA EGERER

    It is really and truly summer now. Are your gardens and parks full of the sound, movements, and magic of winged life – the fluttering of...
    THE POWER OF LOCAL GARDEN KNOWLEDGE: IN THE COASTAL GARDEN, with LYONS FILMER & SUSAN HAYES
    • May 26

    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....
    SAGING THE WORLD, PREPARING FOR CA NATIVE PLANT WEEK, ROSE RAMIREZ & DEBORAH SMALL
    • Apr 7

    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...
    THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI
    • Apr 1

    THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI

    John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...
    A SCIENTIST'S QUEST FOR NATURE'S NEXT MEDICINES, DR. CASSANDRA QUAVE
    • Mar 24

    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...
    BIODIVERSITY MATTERS II: CONSERVING PLANT DIVERSITY
    • Feb 17

    BIODIVERSITY MATTERS II: CONSERVING PLANT DIVERSITY

    Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener...
    BIODIVERSITY MATTERS: PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL, with CEO, IAN DUNN
    • Feb 10

    BIODIVERSITY MATTERS: PLANTLIFE INTERNATIONAL, with CEO, IAN DUNN

    Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants,...
    A CONSERVATION OF GENEROSITY & RELATIONSHIPS, GARY PAUL NABHAN
    • 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,...
    GROWING FLAVOR - PAST & PRESENT, CHEF DAVE SMOKE MCCLUSKEY's CORN MAFIA
    • 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...
    THE GREENHORNS & THE NEW FARMERS ALMANAC ENVISIONING A FERTILE FUTURE
    • Oct 15, 2021

    THE GREENHORNS & THE NEW FARMERS ALMANAC ENVISIONING A FERTILE FUTURE

    As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy and beginning to consider next season, forward planning, this week we...
    GARDENING IN SUMMER DRY CLIMATES with PHOTOJOURNALIST SAXON HOLT
    • Oct 7, 2021

    GARDENING IN SUMMER DRY CLIMATES with PHOTOJOURNALIST SAXON HOLT

    In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, we’re joined this week by...
    THE OUTSIDER, BOTANIZING GLOBALLY, GROWING LOCALLY with HANNAH GARDNER, UK
    • Jul 22, 2021

    THE OUTSIDER, BOTANIZING GLOBALLY, GROWING LOCALLY with HANNAH GARDNER, UK

    Hannah Gardner is a gardener, writer, and mother – she is a garden designer and plantswoman with a passion for traveling the world to...
    GARDENS WITH SOUL: UNDER WESTERN SKIES, with CAITLIN ATKINSON
    • May 6, 2021

    GARDENS WITH SOUL: UNDER WESTERN SKIES, with CAITLIN ATKINSON

    CAITLIN ATKINSON is a photographer of places, spaces, and all things botanical. A child-hood spent in the Sierra Nevada foothills among...
    SEASONAL & ELEMENTAL: CALLING ALL TOMATOMANIACS
    • Apr 22, 2021

    SEASONAL & ELEMENTAL: CALLING ALL TOMATOMANIACS

    It's Spring in the northern hemisphere (even snow is still making visitations to parts of the North American as I speak to you) and...
    BALANCED SYSTEMS THINKING & TEK, Lorena Gorbet, Maidu Summit Consortium
    • 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...
    BEAUTY & BALANCE: GARDENS OF THE HIGH DESERT, JUDITH PHILLIPS
    • Oct 22, 2020

    BEAUTY & BALANCE: GARDENS OF THE HIGH DESERT, JUDITH PHILLIPS

    Judith Phillips is a renowned landscape designer, founder and principle of Design Oasis, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the past...
    WRITING WILD: 25 WOMEN POETS, RAMBLERS & MAVERICKS with KATHRYN AALTO
    • Jul 9, 2020

    WRITING WILD: 25 WOMEN POETS, RAMBLERS & MAVERICKS with KATHRYN AALTO

    This week on Cultivating Place we take a summer amble with British-based Californian Kathryn Aalto – an historian, garden designer, and...
    DR. ELAINE INGHAM, WOMEN WORKING IN THE WORLD OF PLANTS #3
    • Mar 20, 2020

    DR. ELAINE INGHAM, WOMEN WORKING IN THE WORLD OF PLANTS #3

    This week, in the midst of chaos and questioning, Cultivating Place’s Women’s History Month interviews get to the very basics of...
    TALKING 'BOUT A REVOLUTION: FOODSCAPE REVOLUTION with BRIE ARTHUR
    • Nov 21, 2019

    TALKING 'BOUT A REVOLUTION: FOODSCAPE REVOLUTION with BRIE ARTHUR

    Last week we were in the herbs, this week we move to the rest of the food pantry and I mean the rest – from peanuts to beans and rice,...
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