Gardening Ethics

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.

The Spring Equinox welcomes Brooke Williams. He's a writer, naturalist, amateur conservation ecologist, thinker, and walker. Based in the Great Salt Lake region of Utah with his wife, acclaimed writer Terry Tempest Williams, Brooke writes about evolution, consciousness, and his adventures exploring our world's inner and outer wilderness.

Tess Taylor is a self-described Poet Gardener – and if there is ever a season to feel the poetry of life in the garden and with the plants in every cell of your body, it’s springtime!

Dr. Margaret Funk is the curious Midwest gardener (and doctor) behind the online name Flora & Frost. In honor of Women’s History Month, Margaret joins Guest Host Ben Futa this week on Cultivating Place.

In celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women’s History Month - this week we’re so pleased to air another of our CP LIVE: Dialogues to Grow By conversations, recorded live in front of an audience on the home ground of the Cultivators of Place with whom we are speaking.

Many things motivate and drive us to love gardening, plants, and nature. Australia’s Michael McCoy, also known as The Gardenist, is a Gardener, botanist, designer, teacher, and international garden tour guide.

In today’s conversation between guest host Ben Futa and Joseph Reiver, we learn how the inspiring story of how the Garden is fighting back - taking a stand against the powerful interests that seek to erase more than 30 years of community, growth, and beauty.