plants

Anna Andreyeva is a Russian-born UK- based garden designer, plantswoman, and mother. She joins us this week to share more about gardens and plants as common grounds and art forms to help meet the challenges ahead.

Pam Penick is the gardener behind the well-known long-time garden blog known as Digging. Based in Austin, Texas, Pam is an avid and audacious gardener and garden writer. Pam joins Cultivating Place this week to share more about life in a hot & dry climate as a thinking gardener.

K joins Cultivating Place this week to delve into the long view and deep relationships born of the generosity of seed – and seed people - in our garden lives.

Cultivating Place is joined by medical ethnobotanist and Emory professor, Dr. Cassandra Quave who shares with us the very personal story of her quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants.

Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener I know. With that in mind and with the hope and the knowledge of the agency we as Gardeners hold in this world, I’m so pleased to be in conversation this week with two men who’ve been working and studying this very aspect of our world, in their place.

Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A Time, founded in 1977 and still growing strong, based in Bolinas, CA.

Cultivating Place takes a behind-the-scenes look at an independent seed source well-known to gardeners and market growers throughout North America: Johnny’s Selected Seeds.

Cultivating Place welcomes Heather McCargo of the Wild Seed Project in Portland, Maine.

Listen in this week as we discuss how far we’ve come in our mainstream gardening practices this past 50 years, from companion planting to cover cropping, interplanting to the joys of watching predatory robber flies help control Japanese beetles. We also cover the even greater joy of knowing that more life in your garden equals more health in your garden life.

This week on Cultivating Place, a BEST OF in which we revisit our seedkeeping series. IN this one, we’re joined by plantswoman, seed advocate, farmer and…