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Preparing for International Pollinator Week with Krystle Hickman, Author, Artist, Native Bee Adventurer
The conservation of biodiversity writ large is directly tied to the conservation of native bees, crucial pollinators in our cultivated and wildland ecosystems across most regions of the world. This…
Turning Space into PLACE: ReGen South Bend
What makes a place a place, versus just any space? Tyler Kanchazeski is a sustainability advocate and the founder and owner of ReGen South Bend, an incremental development and community catalyst…
Sustainability and Stewardship – A Conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler
This week on Cultivating Place, public gardens as living classrooms, the quiet power of trees in city life, and how tending landscapes can cultivate resilience, curiosity, and belonging. Host Abra…
A Radical Plan: Village Homes in Davis, CA turns 50!
This week, we continue plumbing the potential of gardens and gardeners for growing a future we want to cultivate- for the benefit of all. In order to look forward, we look back to the radical plan of…
Tiny Gardens Everywhere, with MIT's Kate Brown
Kate Brown is an MIT Distinguished Professor in the History of Science. Across her career, her research has sometimes inadvertently documented the impact of urban, often small and under-resourced…
Flora Culture with Christin Geall of Cultivated by Christin
This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with our flower theme as we celebrate May, looking toward the most floral of celebrations, Mother’s Day in the US. We discuss not us as gardeners growing…
REALLY ROSES, with Robin Jennings of Oregon-based Heirloom (Roses)
Roses are one of those topics in the garden world: they can be polarizing or energizing. And yet, given that there are roses native to most environments of North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa,…
Between Soil and Self - A conversation with John Sonnier
This week, Cultivating Place host Abra Lee explores diplomacy and gardens. She’s in conversation with John Sonnier, Head Gardener at the British Ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. There since…
Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank (MARSB) with Ed Toth and John Price
This week, when we think about Cultivating Place well, we get to the seed of the matter in conversation with the team at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank, also known as MARSB. We’re in…
Gardens as Social Infrastructure, Gardeners as Public Servants, with Chris Felhaber
Chris Felhaber is a gardener, a husband, and a father. Now based in the Chicago area, Chris has worked in public horticulture in a variety of capacities and with well-known organizations, including…
Pansies! It's What's for Spring! with Brenna Estrada
Brenna Estrada is the owner and founder of Three Brothers Blooms, a flower farm located on 2.5 acres of Camano Island in the Pacific Northwest. Brenna is also the author of Pansies, How to Grow,…
Spring's Wild Dreams, with Jen Williams
Spring is, of course, perfect for some wild dreams about what we can and will sow in the seasons to come. With plants, and with ourselves. Jen Williams’ vision for her work as the founder of Wild…
Vernal Equinox Special: The Glorians, with Terry Tempest Williams
In honor of the Vernal Equinox, and the balance we long for, we are joined this week by humanist, conservationist, Professor, and writer in residence at the Harvard Divinity School, Terry Tempest…
Vital Energy: Omar Al Shafie on Innovative Re-Thinking and Growing
Spring is stirring, buds are swelling, and soil is warming. This week, we celebrate the joys of healthy living soil in conversation with Omar Al Shafie, co-founder of Northern California-based…
Public Service: John Little's UK-based Grass Roof Co
This week on Cultivating Place, host Ben Futa is in conversation with John Little, an ecological designer and public horticulture advocate living and working in the UK. His firm, the Grass Roof…
Blooming Beyond Barriers, the flourishing legacy of South Carolina Floriculturist
This week on Cultivating Place, Abra Lee is in conversation with Laverne Brockington and Vance Davis, great nieces of Annie Mae Vann Reid, an historic florist and entrepreneur based in Darlington,…
For the Love of Orchard Mason Bees, with Thyra McKelvie
As the earliest signs of spring unfurl in the mild climates, think snowdrops, manzanita, the earliest narcissus, wild iris, and Daphne odora – hmmm, the earliest pollinators are paying even more…
Gardening for Comfort & Tea: Golden Feather Tea, Mike Fritts
In these dark, cold days of February, when too much rain or snow, and WAY TO MUCH ICE, or not enough rain or snow, might be getting you down, we take this week, just in time for Valentine’s Day, to…
The Healing Power of Communal Acts of Gardening, Tanja Hollander
Coming up this week on Cultivating Place, host Ben Futa is in conversation with artist & activist Gardener, Tanja Hollander. Tanja works with gardens, social practice, photography, video, and…
After the Fires: Cultivating Place in LA with Studio Petrichor
It’s been a full year since the devastating fires in Los Angeles, CA. Many lives were lost, and many acres and homes were burned. Many gardens, cultivated spaces, and gardeners were profoundly…
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