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Cultivating Place: Sunchoke Farms, Next in the Cultivating South Bend Series

All photos courtesy of Sunchoke Farms; all rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Sunchoke Farms; all rights reserved.

Cultivating Place well so often comes down to sharing the abundance of growing from a place of love and a strong sense of community and home.

Susan Greutman is the founder and owner of Sunchoke Farms, an urban homestead-turned-family farm in South Bend, Indiana, growing chemical-free produce on formerly vacant city lots.

All photos courtesy of Sunchoke Farms; all rights reserved.
All photos courtesy of Sunchoke Farms; all rights reserved.

Susan has been farming since 2018 and also happens to be growing right in Ben Futa and Botany's neighborhood.

Their conversation is filled with lessons drawn from this abundance of place and is the second in Ben’s Cultivating South Bend series, leading up to the Cultivating Place: The Power Of Gardeners, South Bend 2026 Symposium this September! 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.