Plants

Erin Benzakein of Floret Flower Farm needs little introduction to most garden-minded listeners. She has been instrumental in cultivating a flower-farmer and flower-farming economy in our country.

Author Jarod K. Anderson joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about his love of nature, garden life, and thoughts on how an improved relationship with nature is key to everyone’s health.

This week, in honor of Labor Day just passed, we venture into the world of garden preservation, history through the lens of spaces of incarceration, and how these can help all of us consider, with clearer eyes, the great diversity of ways in which the word Garden is used.

At this back-to-school, change-of-seasons moment, I thought we would all enjoy a good bedtime-story vibe. Enjoy this Best of CP conversation with Gwendolyn Wallace.

This week, A BEST OF conversation. In this long, hot, fiery summer here in Northern CA and wet and windy summer in other parts of the country – I really needed some flowers – and thought our conversation with the UK’s Shane Connolly might be just the thing. ENJOY!

Tim Johnson is engaged in the native plant and garden worlds on both personal and professional levels. Having worked with Seed Savers Exchange earlier in his career, Tim last joined us on Cultivating Place a few years back as Executive Director for The Botanic Garden of Smith College.

Janisse Ray joins Cultivating Place this week to explore what it means to be devoted to place - in word, action, and spirit.

This week we revisit a favorite conversation from the archive, “The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year," with author and backyard tender and observer, Margaret Renkl.

Frederick Livingston is the author of Trees are Bridges to the Sky, a collection of essays and poems exploring the human-climate connection.

Happy (almost) Summer Solstice! In celebration of the planetary moment of the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, taking place on June 20th, we get Still.