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Cultivating Place: Sustainability and Stewardship – A Conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF Brent Figlestahler, All rights reserved.
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF Brent Figlestahler, All rights reserved.

This week on Cultivating Place, public gardens as living classrooms, the quiet power of trees in city life, and how tending landscapes can cultivate resilience, curiosity, and belonging.

Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler, horticulturist, landscape architect, educator, and devoted steward of public green spaces from the cultivated collections and urban woodlands of Cylburn Arboretum Friends, to classrooms, community gardens, and neighborhoods across the city of Baltimore, Maryland.

ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF Brent Figlestahler, All rights reserved.

Fig shows what it means to care deeply for plants — and for the people and places connected to them. Listen in!

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ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF Brent Figlestahler, All rights reserved.
ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF Brent Figlestahler, 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.