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Cultivating Place: New Year, New Systems Thinking: Suburbitat, with Jim Tolstrup

All photos courtesy of Jim Tolstrup and High Plains Environmental Center, all rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Jim Tolstrup and High Plains Environmental Center, all rights reserved. 

As we continue our new year, we’re once again gaining elevation and new, growing thinking. We’re in conversation with Jim Tolstrup, Executive Director of the High Plains Environmental Center in Loveland, Colorado, where, by development design, they caringly cultivate Suburbitat.

Suburbitat is a land ethic, a mindset, and a book that all hold a vision of a built environment where suburbia and native ecosystems exist side by side and intertwined.

It is magical in all seasons! And, we can all take notes. Join us!

All photos courtesy of Jim Tolstrup and High Plains Environmental Center, all rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Jim Tolstrup and High Plains Environmental Center, 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 more than 15 years of experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs.