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Cultivating Place: We're all history in the making, life lessons from garden history

All photos courtesy of Cultivating Place Foundation, Ben Futa, and Abra Lee. All rights are reserved.
All photos courtesy of Cultivating Place Foundation, Ben Futa, and Abra Lee. All rights are reserved.

All history reminds us that we are all history in the making! Garden history reminds us that we as gardeners, our gardens, our gardening, and how our culture tends to and stewards land are all that, too! 

What is the historical context of gardens in this moment-especially given some of the changes and impacts on national or public shared landscapes? What does garden history specifically teach us about this moment? 

Join us this week as Cultivating Place hosts Ben Futa and Abra Lee consider these questions through the lens of garden history and their own garden lives: from plants to quilts, from potbelly stoves to richly rewarding stories from the past. Listen in!

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The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.

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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.