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Nov 14

EXPLORING THE FRONTIERS OF GARDEN DESIGN with THE NEW PERENNIALIST, TONY SPENCER OF ONTARIO, CANADA

In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and all that they are growing in this world, this week in...

Sep 19

PRE-AUTUMNAL EQUINOX CELEBRATION with ERIN BENZAKEIN OF FLORET & FLORET ORIGINALS

Erin Benzakein and her husband Chris are the founders of Floret , a family-run flower farm & seed company, specializing in breeding new...

May 2

A YEAR FULL OF FLOWERS (IN POTS!) with UK'S SARAH RAVEN

Jan 11

REIMAGINING MAY SARTON'S HOUSE (& GARDEN) BY THE SEA, with ARTIST/GARDENER CARLY GLOVINSKI

This week on Cultivating Place we hear the magical story of how two women, separated by time, came together to grow all of our...

Nov 16, 2023

GROW: with AWARD WINNING PLANTSMAN RIZ REYES, AUTHOR OF GROW: A FAMILY GUIDE TO PLANTS

r Riz Reyes is a horticulturalist whose career has deep roots in the Pacific Northwest. His work, however, taps into international...

Sep 28, 2023

FROM JOYFUL PARTICIPATION IN A WORLD OF SORROWS TO COSMOSIS, ARTIST LIBBY ELLIS

As we move toward October, the first in what will be a few intermittent episodes across fall and winter reminding us of the artistry...

Aug 17, 2023

THOUGHTFUL ALCHEMY: SUSTAINABLE FLORISTRY, SHANE CONNOLLY & CO

As we tend toward summer’s end, with end of summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the...

May 12, 2023

JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER'S DAY: BLOOM! DEB PRINZING, SLOW FLOWERS SOCIETY

We are now mid-May, half way through a month of graduations, spring celebrations and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US...

Feb 9, 2023

THE LOVE STORIES OF ABRA LEE, CONQUER THE SOIL & OAKLAND GARDEN CEMETERY, ATLANTA

Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic...

Nov 17, 2022

HEALING, GRATITUDE & CONNECTION: ZEPHRINE HANSON, HAMPDEN FARMS

In this week after Veterans Day here in the US, and in this season clarifying that gratitude is one of the greatest gifts of the garden...

Sep 29, 2022

SEED SEASON & BIOREGIONAL SEED SENSE w/ STACEY DENTON of FLORA FARM & DESIGN STUDIO

Jun 17, 2022

BLACK FLORA with TERI SPEIGHT, IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH

In preparation for Juneteenth, we’re in conversation with a Washington DC -based gardener, garden historian and podcaster under the name...

Feb 3, 2022

COMING TO FRUITION, FRUITION SEEDS, PETRA PAGE-MANN

Petra Page-Mann is a green growing force. She is also co-founder with her husband Matthew Goldfarb (as well as with the many people and...

Dec 30, 2021

BRAVE NEW SEED FOR A BRAVE NEW YEAR, with KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG

As a farewell to the calendar year that has been, and a welcome to the year that will be, I am joined this week by seedperson and agent...

Nov 25, 2021

THANKFUL FOR FARMERS: MATTHEW MARTIN, PYRAMID FARMS

This week I am thankful for good food, and the many souls who grow it for us all year long – around the world, really, but This week we...

Jun 3, 2021

SLOW FLOWERS FOR THE SUMMER (& LIFE), with DEBRA PRINZING

Debra Prinzing is the founder and leader of The Slow Flowers Society – She joins us in this first week of summer (after Memorial Day and...

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...

Oct 1, 2020

ON CREATIVITY: LIFE IN THE STUDIO (& GARDEN) with FRANCES PALMER

This week we kick off October with a dive into creativity – the way gardeners harness it, riff off it, and share its results forward with...

Aug 13, 2020

COLLABORATIVE GROWING, FARMER MEG PASKA

I wanted to pop in quick here for an update on our listener support challenge underway. We set ourselves the goal of adding 100 new...

Jul 18, 2019

PLANTING YOUR TRUTH with ABRA LEE, PUBLIC HORTICULTURIST

Abra Lee to date has had an 18 year career in horticulture - a County Extension Agent with the University of Georgia, former...

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