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Cultivating Place: Long Live Love Foundation's Serenity & Healing Garden in Oakland, CA

Images by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Long Live Love Foundation, all rights reserved.
Images by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Long Live Love Foundation, all rights reserved.

This week we consider the idea of mental health and our gardens from an even more poignant perspective.

In the wake of the recent Uvalde and then Oklahoma gun violence deaths and tragedies, I wish this was not such a timely episode, but it is. I am joined this week in conversation by Gabrielle Chanel El, Chanae Pickett, and Ezekiel McCarter - founders of the Long Live Love Foundation.

Images by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Long Live Love Foundation, all rights reserved.
Images by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Long Live Love Foundation, all rights reserved.

Following the traumatic deaths of Gabrielle’s husband and Chanae and Zeke’s father, the Reverend David McCarter in 2011, and Gabrielle’s eldest son and Chanae and Zeke’s brother, Immanuel, several years later, their very personal and lived mission is to support survivors and victims of traumatic violence in part through the solace, sanctuary, and community of a public healing serenity garden in West Oakland, California. As we prepare for Juneteenth 2022 - listen in this week!

Images by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Long Live Love Foundation, all rights reserved.
Images by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Long Live Love Foundation, all rights reserved.

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Images by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Long Live Love Foundation, all rights reserved.
Images by Bethanie Hines, courtesy of the Long Live Love Foundation, all rights reserved.

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Jennifer 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.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.