Cultivating Place
431 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 314 ratingsGardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring what we mean when we garden. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place illustrates the many ways in which gardens are integral to our natural and cultural literacy. These conversations celebrate how these interconnections support the places we cultivate, how they nourish our bodies, and feed our spirits. Take a listen.
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Great garden friends: The Hummingbird Monitoring Network, Dr. Susan Wethington BEST OF
April 11, 2024 17:32 - 53 minutes - 60.9 MBHummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creature of the America’s, the more than 350 species of hummingbirds have coevolved with the flora of the Americas for millions of years. For this fourth week in our series of 5 episodes on our gardens as important habitat and we gardeners as important stewards of land and biodiversity, we check in on the state of things for the Hummingbird. Cultivating Place is joined in this by Dr. Susan Wethington, research scientist, Program Developer and Executi...
Seeding Circularity: Orta Kitchen Garden Seed Pots, Anne Fletcher
April 04, 2024 17:37 - 57 minutes - 66 MBThis week, with Spring and seeding season fully underway—indoors and out—we speak with gardener entrepreneur Anne Fletcher of Orta Kitchen Gardens, creators of non-toxic ceramic, self-watering Orta seed pots. These pots' material lives help eliminate plastic right from the start in your plants’ growing lives, seeding more circularity into our garden lives! They have a seed club, too….Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you so much for listening over the years, an...
Women's History Month Finale: Garden Wonderland, with Leslie Bennett
March 28, 2024 18:34 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBTo round out Women’s History Month in style, this week, we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, an Oakland, CA-based landscape designer who creates gardens that help to nourish and tell the story of who we are, individually and communally. Leslie lives out her horticultural and cultural ethos in her landscape design work with Pine House Edible Gardens and Black Sanctuary Gardens, as well as in her writing and advocacy. Her newest book, Garden Wonderland, written in collaboration wit...
Spring Equinox Special with Owen Wormser of Abound Design
March 21, 2024 17:00 - 55 minutes - 63.3 MBThe Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now, and as we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier this week, I want to celebrate how far we have come and give us all a forceful nudge to help us stay the path with the many millions of acres of the progress we have to go in this work to trade lifeless monoculture chemically dependent lawns for a happy healthy habitat. This work was given a beautiful boost in 2020 with the publication of Owen Wormser’s ...
The Art of Gardens + Sculpture: Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens Grand Rapids, MI
March 14, 2024 17:02 - 55 minutes - 63.1 MBThe combining of sculpture and gardens dates back centuries if not millennia, and there are few public gardens I know of that do not incorporate sculpture into their aesthetics and identity at some point. This week we are in conversation with an exemplary public garden, whose identity grows out of this pairing: the art of horticulture and the art of sculpture. The Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan is “proudly ranked as one of the top 45 most visited museums ...
Women's History Month: The Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar
March 07, 2024 17:53 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBHappy Women’s History Month! To kick Women’s History Month off on Cultivating Place, we visit with the woman known as the Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar of Jekka’s Herb Farm in the UK this week. Her long and notable career has brought the gardened world the best the herbs of the world have to offer to our gardens, to our environments, to our kitchens, and to our souls. In recognition of her herbal research, plant breeding, garden designing, and advocacy around the many merits of all manner o...
Leap Day Special: Gardening Can Be Murder, Marta - McDowell
March 01, 2024 05:20 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBMost gardeners know the somewhat gruesome pleasure of working in the garden – with a sharp tool, or a poisonous plant, or ankle deep in a juicy scene of decomposition – and thinking to yourself, “oh, this would be a great scene for a murder mystery.” Writer and gardener Marta McDowell is with us this week for our Leap Day Special - sharing more about her newest title Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers, in which sh...
Legends of the Leaf, with Jane Perrone, of On The Ledge Podcast
February 22, 2024 17:32 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBThis week we lean into a particular aspect of our garden lives – but perhaps a favorite winter activity in the northerly climates in winter: tending to our houseplant and indoor garden family. We’re in conversation with Jane Perrone, host of the “On The Ledge” Podcast, and author of “Legends of the Leaf: Unearthing the secrets to help your plants thrive”. In this deep end of the winter season, when our indoor gardening might be holding us through till we can get back outside, Jane shares ...
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, with Brent Leggs
February 15, 2024 18:02 - 54 minutes - 63 MBIn our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am so excited to be joined this week by Brent Leggs, Senior Vice President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Executive Director of the Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, whose mission focuses on telling the full American story. The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund holds a vision of preservation se...
Library science is (garden) life science, Staci Catron & Jennie Oldfield
February 08, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBIn our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, we use this midwinter moment for a mid-winter retreat. We head south to the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center and their remarkable Cherokee Garden Library – named for the historic Cherokee rose, prevalent across the south. Staci Catron has been the Library’s Director since 2000, and Jennie Oldfield is the collection’s Senior Technical...
In honor of BHM: Camille Dungy on "Soil, The Story of A Black Mother's Garden" BEST OF
February 01, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBCamille Dungy is perhaps best known for her remarkable and award-winning, often environmentally focused poetry and editing of collections of environmentally focused poetry and writing by people of color exploring the intersections of gender, race, art, environment, and culture. In honor of Black History Month, we revisit this best-of conversation with Camille from May of 2023. Just as her newest title, Soil, The Story of A Black Mother’s Garden was published by Simon & Schuster. Soil is a ri...
Seed is Life: The National Native Seed Conference Feb 7th and 8th w/ Institute for Applied Ecology
January 25, 2024 18:08 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBIn our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am pleased to be joined this week by three members of the team at The Institute for Applied Ecology – literally ecology in action. Their mission is to conserve native species and their habitats through restoration, research, and education. They envision a world where all people and wildlands are healthy and interact positively, biological diversity f...
Wormwrangling, the science-practice gap, & updating grassland restoration: Dr. Justin Luong
January 18, 2024 17:39 - 57 minutes - 66.2 MBDid you know that grasslands account for between 20 and 40 percent of the world's land area? Generally open, fairly flat, and accessible, they exist on every continent except Antarctica. Ecologically as important as but different from other large ecoregion types such as forests or deserts, grasslands are even more vulnerable to pressure from human populations – for settling, planting, livestock, and development. Threats to natural grasslands, as well as the wildlife that live on them, include...
Reimagining May Sarton's house (and garden) by the sea, w/artist Carly Glovinski
January 11, 2024 17:53 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBThis week on Cultivating Place, we hear the magical story of how two gardeners, separated by time, came together to grow all of our imaginations. May Sarton was a 20th—century writer known for her poetry, novels, and personal journals illuminating the landscape of the human heart and mind. She was also a lifelong and avid gardener. She spent the last 22 years of her life on the coast of Maine in a house and garden called Wild Knoll, now a part of the Surf Point Artist In Residence Program....
Welcoming whimsy, wonder, and the work of Intimacy: Esme Cabrera Naturalist/Artist, la_mamigami
January 04, 2024 17:58 - 1 hour - 57.4 MBEsme Cabrera is an artist, a naturalist, and a born educator. Under the Instagram name “la-mamigami", Esme experiments, shares, and nurtures a plant-based art practice honoring the "miracles-of-being" that are the native plants around her. Exploring their spirit, medicine, history and culture, mathematical, scientific, and sacred patterns with curiosity and deep observation is integral to Esme's California native plant origami designs. Following her efforts to know these plants intimately e...
Thinking like healthy habitats (radically and radially), with Sid Hill Ecological Land Artisan
December 28, 2023 18:00 - 56 minutes - 65.2 MBWe opened up 2023 here on Cultivating Place, focusing on biodiversity, and we close the year similarly, with diverse plant community thinking getting the final say. We’re in conversation with Cornwall-based ecological landscape designer Sid Hill, a land and ecological artisan who creates beautiful, abundant, and thoughtful places. Sid challenges himself, his clients, and the broader horticultural world to keep going and to go even further in rethinking and reimagining how horticulture is prac...
SOLSTICE SPECIAL: THE GARDEN NEXT DOOR with Collin Pine
December 21, 2023 18:00 - 55 minutes - 63.4 MBCollin Pine is an avid gardener, as well as an educator and writer. His first book is a work of garden-based children’s literature, The Garden Next Door. Thought-provokingly illustrated by Tiffany Everett, the detailed and specific artistry of the book adds a rich visual storyline to the already rich language-based narrative. Just in time for the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, The Garden Next Door, at its most philosophical, reminds us of the power of our gardens to support...
Uprooting - finding and growing our way home, with Marchelle Farrell
December 14, 2023 17:39 - 55 minutes - 64.1 MBCaribbean-born British-based writer and Gardener Marchelle Farrell is the author of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside, Finding Home in an English Country Garden. A medical doctor by training, Marchelle’s work unflinchingly surveys her own journey to life in an English country garden and along the way unearths the hard edges but also the richness of the contributions of the African diaspora to our modern gardening world—contributions made willingly and unwillingly, seen, and uns...
Love, Nature, Magic with Maria Rodale
December 07, 2023 18:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBIn our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, I am thrilled to be joined this week by Maria Rodale, of the Rodale Organic Gardening family. Maria is a self-described "explorer in search of the mysteries of the universe." Author, artist, activist, and recovering CEO, she serves on the board of the Rodale Institute and is also a former board co-chair. Throughout her career, she has advocated for the potential of organic regener...
SUPER BLOOM, with Australian Plantswoman Jac Semmler
November 30, 2023 17:39 - 58 minutes - 67.6 MBJac Semmler is a plant practitioner, a multi-disciplinary, creative, highly skilled horticulturist, and the human behind an epic new book and the Australian-based plant practice known as Super Bloom. As our Northern Hemisphere gardens and landscapes settle into whatever their annual dormancy and winter rest might be, we head to the Southern Hemisphere in conversation with Jac Semmler. Her philosophy (of more flowering plants, everywhere, all the time) behind her work Super Bloom gives us s...
Kinship - Belonging in a World of Relations, with Rowen White & Gavin Van Horn Best of
November 23, 2023 18:01 - 1 hour - 71 MBIn 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 for growing the world better. I thought that this week we could all use a dose of such direction and grounding. With that in mind, please enjoy this BEST OF conversation with Indigenous seed keeper and teacher, Rowen White, and writer and activist Gavin Van Horn. They are voices of reason, relationship, and responsibility in our times. As a gardener and a ...
GROW with Riz Reyes, award-winning plantsman and author of "Grow: A Family Guide to Plants"
November 16, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBThis week we’re in conversation with award-winning plantsman Riz Reyes of Washington State-based RH Horticulture and Landwave Gardens. Riz is the current Assistant Director of Heronswood Garden and started his new role in May 2022. His duties include overseeing garden staff, volunteers, organizing garden events/plant sales, teaching lectures/workshops, and assists in maintaining and redesigning prominent sections of the gardens. From his early inspirations as a child in the Philippines to h...
"Joy Takes Root," a conversation with author Gwendolyn Wallace
November 09, 2023 17:38 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBGwendolyn Wallace is a gardener, a student, a teacher, a historian, and the author of two new works of illustrated children’s literature. Joy Takes Root, and The Light She Feels Inside (both published this year) are works grounded in the human impulse to garden. In words, stories, and images these additions to the world of children’s literature help to grow us all. Using her own history and experience with gardens and gardening, Gwendolyn’s stories remind us (no matter our age) that our ga...
Growing Home: Humble Roots & The Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer
November 02, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBAs we turn the calendar to November and the season to decidedly late-fall and even wintery in many places across the U.S., we look toward our fall & winter planting windows – especially good for native plants in most of our areas as long as the ground is workable. With that in mind, this week we’re joined by two native plant enthusiasts and nursery people – Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt of Humble Roots Nursery in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. Humble Roots is a native plant nursery acc...
Flora & Forage with Blue Ridge Botanic's Nina Veteto
October 26, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutes - 64.6 MBThis week we continue our artistic autumnal theme in conversation with Nina Veteto, a conservationist, an artist, and an expert storyteller. Known as Blue Ridge Botanic online and creator of the brand new Flora and Forage Podcast (and offshoot of her beloved Secrets of the Wildflowers Video series on social media). Nina is based in North Carolina, and she joins us this week to share more about her history, her artistry, and her passion and voice for plants – from their artistic renderings...
"The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year" with Margaret Renkl
October 19, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBThis week in this season of endings and beginnings again, we welcome back writer, backyard tender, and heartfelt observer Margaret Renkl joining us to share more about her newest, likewise heartfelt book: “The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year.” Many of you will remember our previous conversation with writer and gardener Margaret Renkl about one of her previous titles, “Late Migrations.” Her opinion pieces in The New York Times document the nature of our humanity weekly. I am so pleased to w...
Star-Gazing, Yard-Sharing, Imagination & Community-Activating: Olly Costello, Drawing us Together
October 12, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes - 64 MBThis week on Cultivating Place, we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant-loving and garden-growing lives in conversation with Olly Costello. Through their remarkable colors and forms and interconnections made visible - from the life of the soil to the lives and forms of plants and humans right on up to the myriad stars in our galaxy-night skies - Olly draws us all together. Olly is a white non-binary queer illustrator, food grower, honey bee tender, and a seeker of myst...
Who is "joe gardener"? A conversation with Joe Lamp'l, Growing A Greener World
October 05, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBThis week, we enjoy a conversation with a gardener and garden guru well- known and loved: Joe Lamp’l of the famed and award-winning Growing a Greener World on PBS and The ‘joe gardener’ Show podcast. Growing a Greener World is not just a show name but a nearly life-long mission for Joe. While he is known for his organic vegetable gardening knowledge and advocacy, Joe likewise loves the wilder side of his place in the world and ecological function is a top priority along with his human garden...
The Miraculum and Cosmosis With Artist Libby Ellis
September 28, 2023 20:05 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBAs we move toward October, the first a few intermittent episodes reminding us of the artistry behind our plant and garden love, the artistry underpinning mother nature herself. This week we’re in conversation with artist Libby Ellis – photographer who sees the fullness of creation in the many faces of the flowers who delight us. Libby Ellis is a fine art photographer based on the island now known as Martha’s Vineyard homeland of the Wampanoag people and nation who named the beautiful island...
The Marginalian, with Maria Popova BEST OF
September 28, 2023 16:40 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBThis week, a Best OF episode revisiting our conversation with Maria Popova, the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings). For the past 16 years, The Marginalia has been a daily—perhaps even hourly—exploration of wonder in our world as seen through the lenses of how we as humans express ourselves in our own creativity, our intellectual curiosity, our sadnesses and griefs, and in our greatest loves and joys. Gardening and gardeners are recurrently among t...
WHAT WE SOW, with guest host Dave Schlom Interviewing Jennifer Jewell
September 21, 2023 05:05 - 54 minutes - 62.6 MBOn this special edition of the show, our guest will be Cultivating Place’s wonderful host, Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer has a new book out and it’s very special. A very intimate and, at the same time, global take on the natural and social science aspects of one of the most fundamental things to life on Earth – seeds. Jennifer’s book is titled What We Sow: On The Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds. It’s an exploration of the lives of plants and people through the cycle o...
The High Line of NYC, with Director of Horticulture Richard Hayden
September 14, 2023 16:43 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBThis week, our second episode on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s inaugural Garden Futures Summit being held at the New York Botanical Garden on Sept. 29th and at gardens across the city on Saturday, Sept. 30th. This week, we head to The High Line – a 1.45 elevated linear garden - one of New York City’s green space highlights. We’re in conversation with Richard Hayden, Director of Horticulture at The High Line since 2022. A horticultur...
New York Green, with photographer & author Ngoc Minh Ngo
September 07, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MBTo kick off September, we head to the Big Apple, where at the end of the month, the Garden Conservancy is holding its inaugural Garden Futures Summit on September 29th and 30th. In preparation, we thought we’d dedicate two episodes to checking in on some garden lives in the city. This week we’re in conversation with photographer, artist, author, and gardener Ngoc Minh Ngo, sharing more about her newest work, “New York Green,” profiling in word and uplifting photography more than 40 exception...
Dancing in the Dragon's Jaw Design Studio Course, UTenn, Knoxville
August 31, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBChad Manley is a fellow and lecturer in the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Nora Jacobs and Carlos Velasco were two of the Masters of Landscape Architecture students in Chad’s spring 2023 Landscape Architecture Design Studio entitled Dancing the Dragon’s Jaw – a deeply imagined course of study designed by Chad “inviting students on a smokey dance of space-making along a continuum of Northern and Central California landscapes," and that resulted in a...
Miami of Ohio's Institute for Environment & Sustainability Masters of Environment program
August 24, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBCan you believe it is already back-to-school season? This week, we look at what back to school means for our lifelong learning with plants. This week, we’re in conversation with members of the Miami University of Ohio engaged with Miami’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability Masters of Environment program and Institute for Food Farm to learn more about just a few of the ways plant and horticultural information in integrated into the daily life of Miami’s curriculum. In September of...
Thoughtful Alchemy: Sustainable Floral Design, Shane Connolly & Co
August 17, 2023 16:43 - 56 minutes - 64.6 MBAs we tend toward summer’s end, with end-of-summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the planning, we turn this week to floristry and how and where it intersects with sustainability – and as our guest today shares, with thoughtfulness. British floral designer Shane Connolly is well-known for his world-class floristry and floral design – gracing several weddings within the British Royal Family as well as the recent coronation of King Charles. Whil...
Firescaping, with Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger
August 10, 2023 16:51 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBIn the throes of fire season, especially in the western regions of North America, this week, we turn to the idea of not only gardening for beauty, food, and/or habitat but also fire preparedness. We’re speaking this week with Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger, biologists, botanists, gardeners, and authors of the new book Firescaping Your Home, a manual for readiness in wildfire country – including 640 resilient native plant recommendations with a focus on native plants of California,...
The Value of Native Plants for Gardens Trials, Sam Hoadley Mt. Cuba Center
August 03, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 58.8 MBSam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation center as well as one of the country’s leading research and trial gardens for native plant species as well as their old and new cultivars. Open to the public since 2013, Mt. Cuba is dedicated to us all growing at a higher level. With the fall planning and planting season now firmly in sight, Sam joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about the data (i...
Olbrich Botanical Gardens centering plants & people of Madison, Wisconsin, w/Erin Presley
July 27, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutes - 64.9 MBErin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded in 1952 on the shores of Lake Wonona in Madison, Wisconsin. In her position since 2014, Erin has become as much a part of the landscape as the plants and animals of the garden she loves. She has been particularly instrumental in bringing to life, with the help of other plants people, gardens of culture representing the natural history and plant relationship...
Coming to our Senses: Wildscape, with Master Naturalist Nancy Lawson
July 20, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBThe garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening and even rotting. In this week’s conversation, embrace this sublime sensuality from various perspectives in conversation with master naturalist Nancy Lawson. Lawson is perhaps best known as The Humane Gardener, the title of her first book, and her online signature. And a humane gardener she is. She is a habitat consultant, and founder of The Humane Gardene...
The Beautiful Chaos of Garden Inspired Living, with Oklahoma-based Linda Vater
July 13, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes - 67.8 MBThe garden in summer is what we all dream of: some downtime, some play time, fresh flavors, fragrances, and of course, flowers and fun. This week we revel in the beautiful chaos of a garden-inspired life with an Oklahoma accent in the company of Linda Vater, author of The Beautiful & Edible Garden, and founder of Potager Blog on Instagram and Garden Inspired Living on Youtube. Linda is exuberantly-spirited and as well-known for her former storybook Oklahoma Garden – its expansive front ga...
Summer Garden Good Reads: Hedge, with novelist Jane Delury
July 06, 2023 16:48 - 59 minutes - 68.1 MBNovelist Jane Delury describes herself as a fledgling (maybe seedling?) gardener after 8 years into gardening being part of her everyday life and loves. This labor and love in life coincide with themes of landscapes, gardens, and gardeners becoming fully-embodied motifs and characters in her fiction writing. They show up in her first novel-in-stories, The Balcony, and in her newly released novel Hedge, gardens, gardeners, and gardening past and present from all kinds of perspectives take cen...
Good Citizenship & Right Relationship: Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements w/ Redbud Resource Group
June 29, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutes - 65 MBThis week before July is upon us, and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so pleased to be joined by Taylor Pennewell and Rose Hammock of the Redbud Resource Group, an advocacy organization founded in 2020 by Taylor and her cousin Madison Esposito. The Redbud Resource Group believes fiercely that intergenerational healing can occur only when Native voices are valued in every area of public life. Taylor and Madison's “firsthand expe...
Impermanent Beauty: Solstice Season with Morning Altars' Day Schildkret
June 22, 2023 17:13 - 1 hour - 69 MBIn our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and how they are growing our world, I am so pleased to be back in conversation this week with Day Schildkret, the founder, the ongoing creator, and re-creator of the movement and practice known as Morning Altars, bringing together nature, art, and ritual. Day and his work are devoted to the pursuit of impermanent beauty and how that can become nourishment for life to continue. That sounds like being a gardener to me, and ...
Preparing for National Pollinator Week: The California Bumble Bee Atlas, Leif Richardson of Xerces
June 15, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBNational Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by Pollinator Partnership. This year National Pollinator Week festivities will take place across the country June 19 – 25, 2023 and in celebration, this week on Cultivating Place we look closely at one particular group of our native pollinators the charismatic bumble bees, the more than 250 species in the genus Bombus. Our guest this week, Leif Richardson, is an E...
Garden for Wildlife Celebrating 50 Years, National Wildlife Federation's Mary Phillips
June 08, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBNo matter what you might call it – Rewilding, wildscaping, backyard habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat gardening, Homegrown National Park, Perfect Earth, 2/3rds for the Birds, or Garden for Wildlife, the concepts of Conservation + Biodiversity + our Gardens wherever they might be is not a new idea, although it is newly imperative in our world. These three concepts as a perfect trinity go back to at very least 1973 when the National Wildlife Federation kicked off its...
Normalizing Native Plant Landscape Joy, with the Theodore Payne Foundation
June 01, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 63.5 MBWelcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration through the lens of California: seed identified, site-sourced, and grown for conservation & biodiversity support. The foundational level of seed – for scales large and small, and how it grows on from there is top of mind at the Theodore Payne Foundation in Southern California, an historic conservation icon in their region through their seed banking and native p...
High Value Habitat, Pat Reynolds of Heritage Growers Native Seed & Plant
May 25, 2023 16:45 - 57 minutes - 66.2 MBPat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring of habitat restoration projects, including the effective use of native seed. He is the Director of River Partners’ Native Seed and Plant program, the former General Manager of Hedgerow Farms, and a past Associate Restoration Ecologist at H.T. Harvey & Associates. This week we continue our series exploring conservation and biodiversity support at the found...
Seed Strategies at Scale, Andrea Williams
May 18, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBThis week we kick off a several-part series looking into the state of seed, specifically wildland seed, for conservation and ecological restoration in our world from various perspectives. We start off in conversation with Andrea Williams, the Director of Biodiversity Initiatives with the California Native Plant Society, and from there, a contributor to both the proposed California Seed Strategy and the National Seed Strategy. Listen in! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank yo...
JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER'S DAY: BLOOM! WITH THE SLOW FLOWERS SOCIETY'S DEB PRINZING
May 11, 2023 17:00 - 54 minutes - 63.1 MBWe are now mid-May, halfway through a month of graduations, spring celebrations, and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US this coming weekend. Something that all of these celebratory kinds of human-marked rituals and events have in common? We so often mark them with the best of our most loved flowers of the season. With that as our touchstone, I am so pleased to once again be in conversation this week with Deb Prinzing, founder of the Slow Flowers movement here in the U.S. ...