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Cultivating Place: Midsummer's Night Magic, with Leigh Ann Henion

All photos are courtesy of Leigh Ann Henion, and all rights reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Leigh Ann Henion, and all rights reserved. 

Have you ever heard of a Moth-er? Yes, it is the moth equivalent of a birder – someone who loves and follows and studies the incredible diversity of moths.

Creatures whose lives benefit ours and yet take place primarily under the cover of the dark of night.

In this week of the Summer Solstice, in our seasonal period of longest days and shortest nights in the Northern Hemisphere, we pause to consider and revel in the importance—the life-nurturing, life-giving, and restorative magic of the dark.

All photos are courtesy of Leigh Ann Henion, and all rights reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Leigh Ann Henion, and all rights reserved. 

Leigh Ann Henion is the author of Night Magic, Adventures among Glowworms, Moon Gardens and other Marvels of the Dark – a beautiful road map for all of us in better knowing and appreciating the greater fullness of the lives of our places – especially those lives that bloom, grow, and come out at night. Listen in and enjoy!

All photos are courtesy of Leigh Ann Henion, and all rights reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Leigh Ann Henion, and 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.