Jennifer Jewell
Host, Cultivating PlaceJennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.
Jennifer has been writing about gardening professionally since 1998, and her work has appeared in Gardens Illustrated, House & Garden, Natural Home, Old House Journal, Colorado Homes & Lifestyles, and Pacific Horticulture. She worked as Native Plant Garden Curator for Gateway Science Museum on the campus of California State University, Chico, and lives and gardens in Butte County, California. Her book, The Earth In Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Reimagine Life With Plants, is due out from Timber Press in late 2019. For more information on Jennifer, please see: Cultivatingplace.com.
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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 changes in public garden standards, expectations, and accountability in that same time frame. -
This week on Cultivating Place we welcome May, with all of her floral and plant profusion, revisiting a conversation we loved with Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt of Humble Roots Nursery in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge. -
This Earth Day week, we’re celebrating Juliet Sargeant's design background and digging into her new book “Start With Soil: Simple Steps for a Thriving Garden,” which publishes on May 1st from Frances Lincoln. Enjoy! -
John Stempien is the emeritus director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum in South Haven, Michigan. He joins us today to share more about his garden life. -
Award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, Debbie Millman details falling in love with gardening in her latest work, Love Letter to a Garden. -
You might remember Cultivating Place's first conversation with Iowa-based plantsman, Kelly D. Norris, back in 2021, in celebration of his book New Naturalism, designing and planting a resilient, ecologically vibrant home garden. We’re so pleased to have him back in conversation with CP Guest Host Ben Futa this week. -
This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Abra Lee is in conversation with a horticultural leader with big IDEAs. Mae Lin Plummer is the Director of the IDEA Center for Public Gardens in Denver Colorado. -
The Spring Equinox welcomes Brooke Williams. He's a writer, naturalist, amateur conservation ecologist, thinker, and walker. Based in the Great Salt Lake region of Utah with his wife, acclaimed writer Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke writes about evolution, consciousness, and his adventures exploring our world's inner and outer wilderness. -
Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the plants in every cell of your body, it’s springtime! -
Dr. Margaret Funk is the curious Midwest gardener (and doctor) behind the online name Flora & Frost. In honor of Women’s History Month, Margaret joins Guest Host Ben Futa this week on Cultivating Place.
