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Cultivating Place: All the wild rhythms: Wild Plant Culture with Jared Rosenbaum

All photos courtesy of Jared Rosenbaum, Wild Ridge Plants. All rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Jared Rosenbaum, Wild Ridge Plants. All rights reserved.

The wilds of New Jersey might sound like a humorous oxymoron to many – many who don’t live in New Jersey.

Humor is one of our guests' great traits this week, along with his deep love of the plants and places making up New Jersey and its wilds—whether scrappy and unlikely roadside verges or extant majestic old-growth forests.  

All photos courtesy of Jared Rosenbaum, Wild Ridge Plants. All rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Jared Rosenbaum, Wild Ridge Plants. All rights reserved.

Jared Rosenbaum and his wife Rachel Mackow own and operate New Jersey’s Wild Ridge Plants, an all-native, all-natural, all-nursery-propagated endeavor in Alpha, New Jersey. 

Jared is also the face and voice behind the Wild Plant Culture Podcast, and, along with documentary filmmaker Jared Flesher, Jared Rosenbaum is the host of the Rooted Series of Wild Plant videos.

A certified ecological restoration practitioner and author of Wild Plant Culture, A Guide to Restoring Native Edible and Medicinal Plant Communities, Jared has an abiding curiosity about the intersection of ecology and culture. From his deeply rooted place there in New Jersey – I am so pleased to welcome Jared to Cultivating Place this week – join us!

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All photos courtesy of Jared Rosenbaum, Wild Ridge Plants. All rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Jared Rosenbaum, Wild Ridge Plants. 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.