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Cultivating Place: Dispatches From the Home Garden – A Father-Daughter Garden Heritage Story
In our last Cultivating Place "Dispatches from the Home Garden," we heard from a young gardener experiencing her first garden dislocation/relocation …
8 years, 6 months ago
Cultivating Place: An Edible Feast – Edible Communities Publications Turns 15
This week on Cultivating Place we hear the story of the first 15 years of the Edible Communities – the umbrella name of the many publishers who bring…
8 years, 6 months ago
Cultivating Place: Dispatches From The Home Garden – Urban Homesteading And A Garden Journey
Gardening is a specifically human endeavor. It is a characterizing feature of our species, fairly well documented throughout our evolution. Which fas…
8 years, 6 months ago
Elevated – Gardens Of The High Line, With Landscape Designer Rick Darke
What do we mean when we use the word “wild” and why does it matter? In 2017, the New York City urban landscape commonly known as The High Line celebr…
8 years, 6 months ago
Cultivating Place: Paying Love’s Celebrations Forward, With Floral Designer Melinda Benson-Valavanis
Melinda Benson-Valavanis is a floral designer and owner of MCreations in Chico, CA. She recently committed her business to participating in a project…
8 years, 6 months ago
Cultivating Place: 'Heaven Is A Garden' And 'The Spirit Of Stone' With Author Jan Johnsen
This week on Cultivating Place, we’re joined by Jan Johnsen – a gardener, landscape designer and author of the books "Heaven is a Garden" and "The Sp…
8 years, 6 months ago
Earth Wisdom – John Muir, The Accidental Taoist – With Author Raymond Barnett
Spring is a time of awakening and full sensory immersion in the world around us - even if we aren’t gardeners or nature lovers. It is hard to avoid, …
8 years, 6 months ago
Cultivating Place: Energetic – The Dynamics Of Biodynamics At Fern Verrow Farm
Close to 21 years ago, a Cordon Bleu trained chef and business woman named Jane Scotter left a busy city life in London and bought a farm. She was jo…
8 years, 6 months ago
Cultivating Place: California Native Plant Week – A Conversation With Dennis Mudd, Calscape
It is California Native Plant Week this week. Officially designated by the California Native Plant Society in 2010, this year the festivities and edu…
8 years, 6 months ago
Cultivating Place: 'Useful, With A Pleasant Degree Of Humor" – The Old Farmer's Almanac Turns 225
“Useful, with a pleasant degree of humor” — that is the tag line for the Old Farmer’s Almanac, an annual handbook for American growers, farmers and g…
8 years, 6 months ago