ORCHARD: WINTER KEEPERS, COOKERS & CIDERS, with UK'S JAMES RICH
This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with home grown ones, a...
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Feb 16, 2023
THE UPLIFTING OF UJAAMA, BONNETTA ADEEB & NATHAN KLEINMAN
Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox, many of us have seeds of spring and summer foods on our minds (and...
Feb 2, 2023
FOR THE LOVE OF APPLES: MONTEZUMA ORCHARD RESTORATION PROJECT
February is upon us and we turn from a love letter to one place, to a labor of love in conserving some of the fruits of human’s labors in...
Jan 5, 2023
CONSERVING BIODIVERSITY & HABITAT 30% x 2030, JENNIFER NORRIS
Welcome 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, and statewide and local...
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...
Sep 22, 2022
REGENERATION FROM AN INTENTION OF DEEP JOY AND FUN, FARMER RISHI
Photos courtesy of Farmer Rishi and the Sarvodaya Institute, all rights reserved - see full gallery at bottom of post. This week on...
Aug 18, 2022
THE PRAIRIE GARDENER GO-TO GUIDES, with CANADIAN GARDENER JANET MELROSE
In our ongoing exploration of where gardeners are and what they are doing in our world right now, I am very pleased to head pretty far...
Jul 28, 2022
THE HISTORY & IMPORTANCE OF SUMMER TOMATOES, SOUTH JERSEY STYLE, HEIRLOOM ACTIVIST JEFF QUATTRONE
It’s the height of warm season crops in our gardens here in the Northern Hemisphere, and this week Cultivating Place is joined by Jeff...
Jul 21, 2022
CONNECTION & DIVERSITY FROM A LAND PERSPECTIVE, CHEETAH TCHUDI of TURKEYTAIL FARM
It’s the height of summer farmers markets as community hubs, and this week we're in conversation with Cheetah Tchudi co-founder with his...
Jul 7, 2022
PRESERVATION & TRANSFORMATION: SAN FRANCISCO'S GREENHOUSE PROJECT, w/ CAITLYN GALLOWAY
San Francisco Bay Area’s Greenhouse Project is a cultural and economic restoration garden project making use of what we have and growing...
Jun 30, 2022
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...
Apr 7, 2022
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...
Apr 1, 2022
THE HEIRLOOM GARDENER, JOHN FORTI
John Forti is an award-winning heirloom specialist, garden historian, ethnobotanist, garden writer, and local foods advocate. He is...
Mar 24, 2022
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...
Mar 17, 2022
GROW NOW - OUR GARDENS AS CLIMATE ACTIVISM, EMILY MURPHY
Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her...
Feb 10, 2022
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,...
Jan 20, 2022
THE PALESTINE HEIRLOOM SEED LIBRARY, VIVIEN SANSOUR: BEST OF
In this first month of the new year, I once again offer out the hope of Vivien Sansour's work and the hope of seeds – to bind us more...
Jan 13, 2022
JOHNNY'S SELECTED SEEDS with DAVE MELHORN, CEO & LAUREN GIROUX, PRODUCT SELECTION/TRIALING
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes...
Jan 6, 2022
THE SEED KEEPER(S), with DIANE WILSON
To welcome the new year, we stay with the theme of seeds – this time focusing on seeding our imaginations in conversation with Diane...
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