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Cultivating Place: Star-gazing, yard-sharing, imagination & community-activating: Olly Costello, drawing us together

All images courtesy of (M)Olly Costello, all rights reserved.
All images courtesy of (M)Olly Costello, all rights reserved.



This week on Cultivating Place, we return to the artistry and also the activism of our plant-loving and garden-growing lives in conversation with Olly Costello.

All images courtesy of (M)Olly Costello, all rights reserved.
All images courtesy of (M)Olly Costello, all rights reserved.

Through their remarkable colors and forms and interconnections made visible - from the life of the soil to the lives and forms of plants and humans right on up to the myriad stars in our galaxy-night skies - Olly draws us all together.

Olly is a white non-binary queer illustrator, food grower, honey bee tender, and a seeker of mysticism. Through their creative work – which includes both visual arts and community building and reimagining - Olly explores themes of interconnectedness, cosmology, reciprocity, queer ecology, biomimicry, and emergence.

They are perennially interested in cultivating our radical imaginations to help us all shape our emergent new world – in and out of the garden. Listen in!

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We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow even more of these types of conversations.

The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Podcast. To read more and for many more photos, please visit cultivatingplace.com.

All images courtesy of (M)Olly Costello, all rights reserved.
All images courtesy of (M)Olly Costello, 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.