Plants

Award winning author Amy Stewart shares stories about people who collect trees in her newest book, The Tree Collectors, Tales of Arboreal Obsession, which she researched, wrote and illustrated.

This week when many in the US have time off with family and friends, we note our gratitude for Public Gardens and green spaces around our country and in our lives. Guest-Host Abra Lee is in conversation with one of North America’s public garden leaders, Paul Redman.

Chico Chai shares its love of tea with the North State community by opening a new Chai House.

In honor of the season of gratitude, festivities, long nights, rest, and reflection upon us, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Indigenous scholar, professor, land and culture tender, MacArthur Genius Grant award winner, mother, and all around wonderful human.

Tony Spencer is the plantsman cultivator behind the Canadian-based endeavor, which for the last decade has been known as The New Perennialist.

This week on Cultivating Place, guest host Ben Futa of Botany in South Bend, Indiana is back and this time in conversation with John Kish in the desert town of Bend, Oregon.

Jared Rosenbaum and his wife Rachel Mackow own and operate New Jersey’s Wild Ridge Plants, an all-native, all-natural, all-nursery-propagated endeavor in Alpha, New Jersey.

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.