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Cultivating Place: Seed Your Future, with Jazmin Albarran

Photos courtesy of Seed Your Future, all rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Seed Your Future, all rights reserved. 

This week on Cultivating Place, host Abra Lee dives into the world of pathways to plant professions with Jazmin Albarran, executive Director of Seed Your Future, a non-profit whose vision is a world where Everyone understands the power of plants and is aware of the promising careers in the art, science, technology, and business of horticulture.

Horticulture is the art, technology, and science of plants. It is the food we eat, the landscapes we live and play in, and the environments we thrive in.

It is the business of managing and utilizing what we grow while maintaining the health of our soil, air, and water, as well as the well-being of our children, communities, and the world. In short - it's all about plants!

Photos courtesy of Seed Your Future, all rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Seed Your Future, all rights reserved. 

Every day, the plant world is quietly led by horticulture heroes and plant champions who make an enormous impact on our lives and the future of the planet.

Through their online, in-person and year-round programs, including the Horticultural Heroes stories shared, the Immersive Learning for High School Educators, Green Career Week (coming up October 6 - 10, 2025), Seed Your Future aims to share stories, promote horticulture, and inspire more people to pursue careers working with plants. Listen in!

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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.