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Cultivating Place: The High Line of NYC, with Director of Horticulture Richard Hayden

An area of The High Line known as the Washington Grasslands in fall color.
All photos courtesy of Richard Hayden and The Friends of The High Line, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
An area of The High Line known as the Washington Grasslands in fall color.

This week, our second episode on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s inaugural Garden Futures Summit being held at the New York Botanical Garden on Sept. 29th and at gardens across the city on Saturday, Sept. 30th.

This week, we head to The High Line – a 1.45 elevated linear garden - one of New York City’s green space highlights. We’re in conversation with Richard Hayden, Director of Horticulture at The High Line since 2022. A horticulture and public garden enthusiast, Richard is all about connecting people with the power of plants. Join us!

All photos courtesy of Richard Hayden and The Friends of The High Line, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

The self-seeded wild high line prior to revitalization and curation demonstrates the biodiversity of flora and fauna possible on this elevated railway line. Top image by Joel Sternfeld.

The self-seeded wild high line prior to revitalization and curation, demonstrates the biodiversity of flora and fauna possible on this elevated railway line.
Joel Sternfeld
The self-seeded wild high line prior to revitalization and curation, demonstrates the biodiversity of flora and fauna possible on this elevated railway line. Top image by Joel Sternfeld.

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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.