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Cultivating Place: The Essence of Thriving with Dr. Garrett Liles, Center for Regenerative Agriculture & Resilient Systems, CSU Chico

All photos are courtesy of Garrett Liles and CRARS at CSU, Chico, all rights reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Garrett Liles and CRARS at CSU, Chico, all rights reserved.

For the next conversation in our intermittent series on what regenerative cultivation looks like in our world-at many levels, Cultivating Place is speaking this week with Dr. Garrett Liles, cofounder and faculty affiliate of the Center for Regenerative Agriculture and Resilient Systems at California State University, Chico.

The Center is all about caring cultivation of place, understanding and supporting better systems, and training the next generation in the ethos and the practices.

The Center is directed by nationally recognized regenerative agriculture leader, Dr. Cynthia Daley, an educator, researcher, and advocate, who joined CSU Chico’s faculty in 1998. Between 2016 and 2019, Dr. Daley, along with Dr. Tim LaSalle and Dr. Garrett Liles, created the Center for Regenerative Agriculture & Resilient Systems.

All photos are courtesy of Garrett Liles and CRARS at CSU, Chico, all rights reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Garrett Liles and CRARS at CSU, Chico, all rights reserved.

Today, the Center is a nationally respected hub for interdisciplinary research, producer education, student engagement, and policy outreach.

Dr. Liles has been mentored by and is a colleague of Dr. Daley and Dr. LaSalle, expanding on and adding to the longstanding work of sustainable agricultural practice at Chico State–past, present, and future-for the benefit of all people and places. 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.