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Cultivators: Winona LaDuke
Season 6 Episode 165
Winona LaDuke (1959-present) is an environmental activist, economist, and writer of Ojibwe descent. Winona has dedicated her life to working on issue…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
Cultivators: Buffalo Bird Woman
Season 6 Episode 164
Buffalo Bird Woman (c. 1839-1932), also known as Maxidiwiac, was a Hidatsa woman whose recollections on traditional Hidatsa culture, customs, and esp…
1 year ago
Convenient: Hattie Carthan
Season 6 Episode 163
Hattie Carthan (1900-1984) was a community activist and environmentalist from Brooklyn, New York. She led efforts to preserve trees, revitalize publi…
1 year ago
Cultivators: Sophie Lutterlough
Season 6 Episode 162
Sophie Lutterlough (1910-2009) was an American entomologist who spent 40 years working at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She sta…
1 year ago
Cultivators: Susan Fenimore Cooper
Season 6 Episode 161
Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894) was a writer and amateur naturalist, best known for her “Rural Hours,” her nature diary of Cooperstown, New York. T…
1 year ago
Cultivators: Theodosia Burr Shepherd
Season 6 Episode 160
Theodosia Burr Shepherd (1845-1906) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in plant breeding known as the “Flower Wizard of California…
1 year ago
Cultiators: Mary Vaux Walcott
Season 6 Episode 159
Mary Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was an American artist, botanist, and naturalist known as the “Audubon of Botany” for her detailed watercolor illustrat…
1 year ago
Cultivators: Helia Bravo Hollis
Season 6 Episode 158
Helia Bravo Hollis (1901-2001) was a pioneering Mexican botanist and the country’s first formally titled biologist, specializing in the study and con…
1 year ago
Cultivators: Rachel Ruysch
Season 6 Episode 157
Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) was a Dutch still-life painter from the Netherlands, specializing in depicting flowers. Her career spanned over six decades…
1 year ago
Cultivators: Tapputi
Season 6 Episode 156
Tapputi is widely regarded as one of the first known chemists, and her name appears in a Mesopotamian cuneiform tablet dating to approximately 1200 B…
1 year ago