A Path For All, Reeves-Reed Arboretum Summit, NJ

Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit NJ, an historic estate and garden, has been considering these questions intensely. How to increase accessibility for visitors and yet maintain the equally important sense of being in and with nature. One result of their thoughtful deliberations is their Path For All, which opened in May of 2026. Three members of…

Slow Design, Thoughtful Places, Andrew Fisher Tomlin

Planting design is an essential skill in garden design writ large, for the health and beauty of a site– functionally, environmentally, and psychologically. Andrew Fisher Tomlin is widely acknowledged as leading the development of a distinct professional career path in planting design through his own work and as a Director of Environmental Design…

Sunchoke Farms, Next in the Cultivating South Bend Series

Cultivating Place well so often comes down to sharing the abundance of growing from a place of love, and a strong sense of community and home. Susan Greutman is the founder and owner of Sunchoke Farms, an urban homestead-turned-family farm in South Bend, Indiana, growing chemical-free produce on formerly vacant city lots.

Following What Flourishes, with Amanda Hannah

Amanda Hannah is the Director of Botanical Garden Horticulture at Holden Forests & Gardens in Cleveland, Ohio. Amanda’s path into horticulture has taken her from the agricultural landscapes of Idaho and Utah to studying in Argentina, living in Seattle, and moving through the Longwood Fellows Program. This week, Amanda and Cultivating Place Host,…

Preparing for International Pollinator Week with Krystle Hickman, Author, Artist, Native Bee Adventurer

The conservation of biodiversity writ large is directly tied to the conservation of native bees, crucial pollinators in our cultivated and wildland ecosystems across most regions of the world. This week, we look forward to International Pollinator Week, which always falls in the third week of June, tied to the summer solstice. We’re in…

A Radical Plan: Village Homes in Davis, CA turns 50!

This week, we continue plumbing the potential of gardens and gardeners for growing a future we want to cultivate- for the benefit of all. In order to look forward, we look back to the radical plan of a 50-year-old intentionally-designed community-and sustainability-oriented housing development, Village Homes, in Davis, California.

Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City

Kate Brown is an MIT Distinguished Professor in the History of Science. Across her career, her research has sometimes inadvertently documented the impact of urban, often small and under-resourced gardens and gardeners, in our world. Her new book, Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City, compiles this…

Flora Culture with Christin Geall of Cultivated by Christin

This week on Cultivating Place, we continue with our flower theme as we celebrate May, looking toward the most floral of celebrations, Mother’s Day in the US. We discuss not us as gardeners growing flowers, but rather, how flowers shape our world, our cultures, our economies, our thinking and outlooks. We're in conversation with Christin Geall,…

Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank (MARSB) with Ed Toth and John Price

This week, when we think about Cultivating Place well, we get to the seed of the matter in conversation with the team at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank, also known as MARSB. We’re in conversation with Ed Toth the Executive Director, and John Price, MARSB’s Associate Director and Native Seed Collection Coordinator.

Between Soil and Self - A conversation with John Sonnier

This week, Cultivating Place host Abra Lee explores diplomacy and gardens. She’s in conversation with John Sonnier, Head Gardener at the British Ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. There since 2009, John focuses on organic and sustainable methods of care AND he has created one of the United State’s most significant historic orchid…

Cultivating Place (Aired on: April 5, 2026)

Roses are one of those topics in the garden world: they can be polarizing, they can be energizing. And yet, given that there are roses native to most environments of North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and humans have revered this family and genus and the hundreds of rose species for millennia, they can also be connective tissue for so…

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Recorded Shows

A Path For All, Reeves-Reed Arboretum Summit, NJ

Slow Design, Thoughtful Places, Andrew Fisher Tomlin

Sunchoke Farms, Next in the Cultivating South Bend Series

Following What Flourishes, with Amanda Hannah

Preparing for International Pollinator Week with Krystle Hickman, Author, Artist, Native Bee Adventurer

A Radical Plan: Village Homes in Davis, CA turns 50!

Tiny Gardens Everywhere: The Past, Present, and Future of the Self-Provisioning City

Flora Culture with Christin Geall of Cultivated by Christin

Mid-Atlantic Regional Seed Bank (MARSB) with Ed Toth and John Price

Between Soil and Self - A conversation with John Sonnier

Cultivating Place (Aired on: April 5, 2026)

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