Gardeners

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This Earth Day week, we’re celebrating Juliet Sargeant's design background and digging into her new book “Start With Soil: Simple Steps for a Thriving Garden,” which publishes on May 1st from Frances Lincoln. Enjoy!

John Stempien is the emeritus director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum in South Haven, Michigan. He joins us today to share more about his garden life.

As our Northern Hemisphere gardens and landscapes settle into whatever their annual dormancy and winter rest might be, we head to the Southern Hemisphere in conversation with Jac Semmler.

This week we consider the idea of mental health and our gardens from an even more poignant perspective. Cultivating Place is joined by Gabrielle Chanel El, Chanae Pickett, and Ezekiel McCarter - founders of the Long Live Love Foundation.

Deep into the Winter season, with February’s full moon behind us, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation with British-based garden photographer Andrew Montgomery, about his new book Winter Gardens.