Gardening Ethics

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.

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.

After several years of developing gardening programs in her now-home town of Truro, MA, Jill Mays has documented the journey of her work, research, and garden program designs for a wide range of special needs in her new book: Nurturing Nature, A Guide to Gardening for Special Needs.

This second week of May, we welcome gardener and plantswoman Holly Shimizu. Her four decades of work in some of America’s notable public gardens have tracked and traced some of the most impactful changes in public garden standards, expectations, and accountability in that same time frame.

This week on Cultivating Place we welcome May, with all of her floral and plant profusion, revisiting a conversation we loved with Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt of Humble Roots Nursery in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge.

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.

Award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, Debbie Millman details falling in love with gardening in her latest work, Love Letter to a Garden.

You might remember Cultivating Place's first conversation with Iowa-based plantsman, Kelly D. Norris, back in 2021, in celebration of his book New Naturalism, designing and planting a resilient, ecologically vibrant home garden. We’re so pleased to have him back in conversation with CP Guest Host Ben Futa this week.