Cultivating Place
Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place
Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring what we mean when we garden. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place illustrates the many ways in which gardens are integral to our natural and cultural literacy. These conversations celebrate how these interconnections support the places we cultivate, how they nourish our bodies, and feed our spirits. Take a listen.
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Sep 22, 2017 • 27min
Cultivating Place: Sam Lemheney And The Philadelphia Flower Show
The first official day of spring is right around the corner, and among other things that means we're in the heart of flower and garden shows around the country.
This week, we speak with Sam Lemheney, Chief of Shows and Events for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, which annually hosts the famed Philadelphia Flower Show. The longest-running horticultural event in the country (not counting Spring herself), the Philadelphia Flower Show is a pilgrimage destination for many horticulturists and gardeners around the country.
Sep 22, 2017 • 29min
Cultivating Place: Panayoti Kelaidis, Denver Botanic Gardens Senior Curator
This week our guest is something of a renaissance man. A Colorado native of Greek descent, Panayoti Kelaidis has a background in Chinese literature and as a computer systems analyst in addition to being an expert in — and enthusiastically curious about — most things that photosynthesize and contain chlorophyll.
Sep 22, 2017 • 28min
Cultivating Place: Gardening, Designing and Living With Lorene Edwards Forkner
Cultivating Place: Gardening, Designing and Living With Lorene Edwards Forkner by Jennifer Jewell
Sep 22, 2017 • 27min
Cultivating Place: Author, Landscape Designer and Inward Gardener Julie Moir Messervy
For more than 25 years, Julie Moir Messervy has inspired gardeners, readers and thinkers with her garden designs and her garden philosophy. She inspired host Jennifer Jewell years ago when she first read her book “The Inward Garden.” In our interview we hear about her education as a gardener, her seminal work as a designer and some of her deeply held beliefs, including that “deep within each of us lies a garden.”
Sep 22, 2017 • 27min
Cultivating Place: A Conversation With California Landscape Designer Bernard Trainor
This week on Cultivating Place, the program’s conversations begin with Bernard Trainor, the Australian-born landscape designer. Known for his iconic California gardens, Trainor is both a hands-on gardener and a big view, large concept designer. His philosophy and work illustrate the power of specific place in any garden or cultivated landscape — no matter how big or small, urban or rural.
