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Cultivating Place: For the Love of Soil & Earth: Juliet Sargeant

Photos courtesy of Juliet Sargeant, all rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Juliet Sargeant, all rights reserved.

Juliet Sargeant is an award-winning English garden designer who blends beauty with purpose in every space she creates. Juliet’s unique background in medicine, science, and psychology gives her designs a whole new depth, focusing on wellbeing and connection.

Photos courtesy of Juliet Sargeant, all rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Juliet Sargeant, all rights reserved.

You might recognize her name from that time in 2016 when she made history as the first Black Woman garden designer to display at the Chelsea Flower Show, and her design - Modern Slavery Garden, won a Gold Medal and the People’s Choice Prize. 

This Earth Day week, we’re celebrating Juliet's design background and digging into her new book “Start With Soil: Simple Steps for a Thriving Garden,” which publishes on May 1st from Frances Lincoln. 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.