Cultivating Place
In Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden we will speak with a wide variety of people passionate about plants, gardens and natural history. We will explore what gardens mean to us and how they speak to us. We will delve into the who, what, where and how of these interconnections, as well as into the why. The intention and universal impulse of the why is so often what drives the power and meaning of a garden and a gardener.
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- www.mynspr.org
- Description
- In Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden we will speak with a wide variety of people passionate about plants, gardens and natural history. We will explore what gardens mean to us and how they speak to us. We will delve into the who, what, where and how of these interconnections, as well as into the why. The intention and universal impulse of the why is so often what drives the power and meaning of a garden and a gardener.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-04-26 02:04
- last episode published
- 2024-04-25 17:00
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- 5.69 days
- Contributors
- Jennifer Jewell / North State Public Radio
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- 476
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Episodes
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| 2024-04-25 |
Bumble Bee Atlas Projects w/ Leif Richardson, Xerces Society BEST OF Following on from native plant week, this week we revisit a BEST OF conversation about some of our favorite native plant visitors: our native bumble bees. Bumble bee conservation has recently had some good news: the Xerces Society recently kicked off t... |
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| 2024-04-11 |
Great garden friends: The Hummingbird Monitoring Network, Dr. Susan Wethington BEST OF Hummingbirds are a beloved and charismatic creature of the America’s, the more than 350 species of hummingbirds have coevolved with the flora of the Americas for millions of years. For this fourth week in our series of 5 episodes on our gardens as impo... |
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| 2024-04-04 |
Seeding Circularity: Orta Kitchen Garden Seed Pots, Anne Fletcher This week, with Spring and seeding season fully underway—indoors and out—we speak with gardener entrepreneur Anne Fletcher of Orta Kitchen Gardens, creators of non-toxic ceramic, self-watering Orta seed pots. These pots' material lives help eliminate... |
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| 2024-03-28 |
Women's History Month Finale: Garden Wonderland, with Leslie Bennett To round out Women’s History Month in style, this week, we are back in conversation with Leslie Bennett, an Oakland, CA-based landscape designer who creates gardens that help to nourish and tell the story of who we are, individually and communally. Le... |
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| 2024-03-21 | The Great Unlawning of America has been underway for some time now, and as we have just crossed the threshold of the spring equinox earlier this week, I want to celebrate how far we have come and give us all a forceful nudge to help us stay the path wi... |
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| 2024-03-14 |
The Art of Gardens + Sculpture: Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens Grand Rapids, MI The combining of sculpture and gardens dates back centuries if not millennia, and there are few public gardens I know of that do not incorporate sculpture into their aesthetics and identity at some point. This week we are in conversation with an exempl... |
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| 2024-03-07 | Happy Women’s History Month! To kick Women’s History Month off on Cultivating Place, we visit with the woman known as the Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar of Jekka’s Herb Farm in the UK this week. Her long and notable career has brought the gardened worl... |
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| 2024-03-01 | Most gardeners know the somewhat gruesome pleasure of working in the garden – with a sharp tool, or a poisonous plant, or ankle deep in a juicy scene of decomposition – and thinking to yourself, “oh, this would be a great scene for a murder mystery.” ... |
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| 2024-02-22 |
Legends of the Leaf, with Jane Perrone, of On The Ledge Podcast This week we lean into a particular aspect of our garden lives – but perhaps a favorite winter activity in the northerly climates in winter: tending to our houseplant and indoor garden family. We’re in conversation with Jane Perrone, host of the “On ... |
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| 2024-02-15 |
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, with Brent Leggs In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, I am so excited to be joined this week by Brent Leggs, Senior Vice President of the National Trust for Histori... |
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