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A Global Garden Adventurer, Plantswoman Lucie Willan
This week on Cultivating Place, you are in for a real summer adventure on a global garden armchair tour of sorts with a plantswoman who has studied and gardened at some of the Western world’s best fr…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
July 4th Special: Great Expectations, CP LIVE with Ben Futa of Botany & CO, South Bend, IN
THIS WEEK on CP - OUR NEXT CP LIVE podcast! And we head to Indiana with our very own Ben Futa. Botany & Co. in South Bend, Indiana is dedicated to “empowering more people to plant more plants in more…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Rooted in Education, Richard M. Smith, Director, NYBG School of Professional Horticulture
This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is joined in conversation by someone whose path into horticulture is both inspiring and honest—Richard M. Smith, director of the School of Professi…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Midsummer's Night Magic, with Leigh Ann Henion
Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder – someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible diversity of moths. Creatures whose lives benefit ours and yet…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Getting to know our neighbors: Preparing for National Pollinator Week with Colorado's PPAN
Every year since 2007, when the US Senate passed sanctions declaring it, the third week of June is celebrated as National Pollinator Week. It is no accident that this is the same week as the Summer …
Published on 3 months ago
Transformative Beauty: Ben Futa in conversation with Montreal-based floral designer Marc Sardi
To welcome the fullness of June, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is back and in conversation with Marc Sardi, a Montreal-based scientist turned floral artist who has reinvented hi…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Nutritious Movement & The Gardener, with Katy Bowman
Summer makes it easy to move your body – to get out for a walk, to work in the garden, to hike, bike, stroll, boat, climb, swim, dance under the stars. Whatever calls you. But as we know, many of us …
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Raised Beds, Raised Voices: Guest Host Abra Lee in Conversation with Philly's Guina Hammond
Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's program manager of sustainable communities. She is also deeply involved in her hometown of Philadelphia as a certified organic landcare profe…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
That Green Thing Inside US ALL, Jill Mays on Nurturing Nature, Gardening for Special Needs
As the summer gardening season rolls into full-throated song, the idea of who has access to the work, joy, and benefits of this practice also comes into view—and feeds what Occupational Therapist and…
Published on 4 months ago
A Beautiful Journey, Plantswoman Holly Shimizu, Emeritus Director US Botanic Garden
This second week of May, we welcome gardener and plantswoman Holly Shimizu. Her four decades of work in some of America’s notable public gardens have tracked and traced some of the most impactful cha…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago