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Cultivating Place: Mum's the Flower of Fall, with Jessica Hall of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm

All photos are courtesy of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm. All rights are reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm. All rights are reserved.

This week on Cultivating Place, we celebrate late summer and fall on the horizon in conversation about one of fall’s stars in the garden: past, present, and future.

All photos are courtesy of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm. All rights are reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm. All rights are reserved.

CP host Ben Futa is in conversation with Jessica Hall of Harmony Harvest Flower Farm, based in Weyers Cave, Virginia, to explore their "Mum Project."

The project aims to revive chrysanthemum production in the US by preserving, sharing, and evaluating heirloom/heritage mums. 

On On November 13th, 2025 Harmony Harvest's annual Virtual Mum Summit returns, bringing together growers, designers, and flower lovers for a full day of inspiration, learning, and fun. 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.