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Cultivating Place: Happy New Year 2025: Prioritizing rest, balance, and joy, with Dandy Ram Farm

All images courtesy of Bo Dennis, Dandy Ram Farm. All rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Bo Dennis, Dandy Ram Farm. All rights reserved.

To ring in the New Year, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is in conversation with Bo Dennis, lead farmer and designer of Dandy Ram farm, located in rural Maine. 

Dandy Ram is an LGBTQ+ flower farm and floral design studio that sustainably grows and designs florals for weddings and ships evergreen and floral products nationally.

Dandy Ram is committed to bringing joy to the world, without ever losing sight of what a just and sustainable relationship with the land and its people looks and feels like, as well as prioritizes.

All images courtesy of Bo Dennis, Dandy Ram Farm. All rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Bo Dennis, Dandy Ram Farm. All rights reserved.

With the concept of new year and fresh starts in mind, the conversation explores prioritizing rest, balance, and joy, especially given a career that is so deeply tied to the seasons. Ben and Bo talk favorite plants, community building, and living authentically.

All images courtesy of Bo Dennis, Dandy Ram Farm. All rights reserved.
All images courtesy of Bo Dennis, Dandy Ram Farm. All rights reserved.

Listen in and from all of us at Cultivating Place: Happy 2025! May it be beautiful, biodiverse, and BRAVE!

From my seat, the act of being still and the art of noticing are perfect intentions for any season. Enjoy!

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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.