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Cultivating Place: The Botanical Journey & Lexicon of a Caring Plantsperson, with Tim Johnson, Native Plant Trust

All photos courtesy of Tim Johnson and the Native Plant Trust.
All photos courtesy of Tim Johnson and the Native Plant Trust.

Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and garden worlds on both personal and professional levels. Having worked with Seed Savers Exchange earlier in his career, Tim last joined us on Cultivating Place a few years back as Executive Director for The Botanic Garden of Smith College.

Tim is a spouse, a father, a life long learner and gardener, and since January of this year, he is the CEO of the Native Plant Trust. He is leading this oldest of U.S. plant conservation organizations into its 125th year working to conserve the great biodiversity of native plants in our world starting with their place in the U.S. Northeast.

We caught up with him this week to learn more about Tim’s botanical journey and to discuss some of the Native Plant Trust’s past, present, and future vision.

All photos courtesy of Tim Johnson and the Native Plant Trust, except final selfie
All photos courtesy of Tim Johnson and the Native Plant Trust, except final selfie

This vision is both on the ground, including their part in manifesting the new Northeast Native Seed Network as foundational to shifting the possibilities for great native plant supply for all landscapes, and increasingly, this vision is in policy at all levels of local and federal government. 

NPT is collaborating with other plant conservation people around the country and world, and serve as a model for how good plant stewardship can literally grow our world better. Join us this week!

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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.