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...
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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
ALL PHOTOS by Jonathan Buckley, all rights reserved. "Pots in the garden are like bubble in a glass of champagne." -Sarah Raven Sarah...
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
Photos courtesy of Stacey Denton, Flora Farm & Design Studio, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This first full...
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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