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Cultivating Place: Coming to our Senses: Wildscape, with Master Naturalist Nancy Lawson

 All photos courtesy of Nancy Lawson, author photo by Jennifer Heffner. All rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Nancy Lawson. All rights reserved.

The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening and even rotting.

In this week’s conversation, embrace this sublime sensuality from various perspectives in conversation with master naturalist Nancy Lawson.

Lawson is perhaps best known as The Humane Gardener, the title of her first book, and her online signature. And a humane gardener she is.

She is a habitat consultant, and founder of The Humane Gardener, LLC. She observes, researches, and pioneers creative wildlife-friendly landscaping methods in her own home habitat and for others.

In other words – and in all senses of the phrase – Nancy puts her gardening where her words are and words and action come together beautifully in her newest book, Wildscape, Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and Other Sensory Wonders of Nature.

 All photos courtesy of Nancy Lawson,. All rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Nancy Lawson. All rights reserved.

Together this week, we delve into her newest research and reporting on the complexity and richness of the sensory life of other than human lives, from the botanical to the birds, bugs, mammals, amphibians, and other wildlife all around us. Wildscape is the eye, ear, nose and heart opening! Listen in!
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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.