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As summer warms and mellows into its Augustness, we’re in conversation this week with two humans who are cultivating their place with the specific purpose of keeping native extant prairie alive and thriving. Stephen Packard and Eriko Kojima of the Somme Prairie Grove Nature Preserve in Illinois.
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The Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its annual GLEAM light show. This year's exhibit will focus on the concept of reflection, with illuminated art installations from artists across the country brightening the gardens at night. CP host Ben Futa will be in conversation with Show Curator Benjamin Smith and Public Programs Manager Missy Jeanne to discuss the upcoming GLEAM season.
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We’re getting back to nature for summer camp! ALL ages invited. We’re in conversation with Rebecca Schwarz and Paige Manges of The Nature Place in La Crosse, WI. It’s a place where we all belong and can keep growing – for sustenance, for survival, and for joy.
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This week on Cultivating Place, you are in for a real summer adventure on a global garden armchair tour of sorts with a plantswoman who has studied and gardened at some of the Western world’s best from Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and Monk’s House in the UK to Sparoza in Greece.
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THIS WEEK on CP - OUR NEXT CP LIVE podcast! And we head to Indiana with our very own Ben Futa. Botany & Co. in South Bend, Indiana is dedicated to “empowering more people to plant more plants in more places!”
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In this week of the Summer Solstice, in our seasonal period of longest days and shortest nights in the Northern Hemisphere, we pause to consider and revel in the importance—the life-nurturing, life-giving, and restorative magic of the dark.
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Joyce Kennedy, PPAN's executive director, and Emily KenCairn, director of communications and development, will join us this week to share more about PPAN – Colorado’s own People & Pollinators Action Network.
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To welcome the fullness of June, this week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa is back and in conversation with Marc Sardi, a Montreal-based scientist turned floral artist who has reinvented his relationship with the natural world, and himself, along with changing careers.
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Katy Bowman, the founder of the Nutritious Movement, says nutrition is essential to a healthy body, mind, heart, and attitude. She joins us on Cultivating Place this week to share more.
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Guina Hammond is the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's program manager of sustainable communities and is also deeply involved in her hometown of Philadelphia as a certified organic landcare professional.