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Before leaving Orange County, let’s first step back and forward-looking back into California’s past as a preview of coming stories. After the Big Orange, we start Follow That Story, to explore an idea or theme by visiting key places around the state that tell that story. For example: November’s Manzanar show helped tell the story of racial injustice. Join us for more, just Up the Road.

As we near the close of a dry, dry season in the generally dry climates of much of the US west, this week Cultivating Place has the first of a two-episode focus on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them.

Host Dave Schlom visits with the Sustainability Director at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Claudia Pineda Tibbs as they discuss the many ways that the iconic oceanic environmental education facility fosters responsible ways to conduct its outreach and operations.

Award-winning author Steven T. Callan celebrates the release of his first novel, The Case Of The Missing Game Warden.

In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, Cultivating Place is joined this week by photojournalist Saxon Holt.

Tehama County Librarian Todd Deck collected stories of local historical figures behind the scenes in Tehama County Hidden Heroes. Also, Author Ken DeCamp offers details about his latest book, Wildflowers of California's Mountains.

Just in time for Samhain, All Hallow’s Eve, and Day of the Dead observances, this week we explore the sacred, green and communal space of a cemetery – specifically Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.

Author Jim Hasse shares a selection of connected war stories featuring his fictional alter ego "Jay Boone Hanson."

Host Dave Schlom visits with author Nicholas Crane from his home in rural England to talk about the adventures and at times misadventures of a group of 12 academicians and military advisors trying to measure one degree of latitude at the equator. It's a rollicking story filled with colorful characters set amidst the 18th century Andes region of modern-day Ecuador.

Cultivating Place welcomes Heather McCargo of the Wild Seed Project in Portland, Maine.