Beste Natural History Podcasts (2023)

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Miraculum and Cosmosis With Artist Libby Ellis 53:10

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As we move toward October, the first a few intermittent episodes reminding us of the artistry behind our plant and garden love, the artistry underpinning mother nature herself. This week we’re in conversation with artist Libby Ellis – photographer who sees the fullness of creation in the many faces of the flowers who delight us. Libby Ellis is a fi…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Marginalian, with Maria Popova BEST OF 1:01:22

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This week, a Best OF episode revisiting our conversation with Maria Popova, the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings). For the past 16 years, The Marginalia has been a daily—perhaps even hourly—exploration of wonder in our world as seen through the lenses of how we as humans express ourselves in our own creati…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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WHAT WE SOW, with guest host Dave Schlom Interviewing Jennifer Jewell 54:33

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On this special edition of the show, our guest will be Cultivating Place’s wonderful host, Jennifer Jewell. Jennifer has a new book out and it’s very special. A very intimate and, at the same time, global take on the natural and social science aspects of one of the most fundamental things to life on Earth – seeds. Jennifer’s book is titled What We …

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The High Line of NYC, with Director of Horticulture Richard Hayden 1:05:40

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This week, our second episode on gardens and green spaces of New York City, getting us primed for The Garden Conservancy’s inaugural Garden Futures Summit being held at the New York Botanical Garden on Sept. 29th and at gardens across the city on Saturday, Sept. 30th.This week, we head to The High Line – a 1.45 elevated linear garden - one of New Y…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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New York Green, with photographer & author Ngoc Minh Ngo 1:01:42

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To kick off September, we head to the Big Apple, where at the end of the month, the Garden Conservancy is holding its inaugural Garden Futures Summit on September 29th and 30th.In preparation, we thought we’d dedicate two episodes to checking in on some garden lives in the city. This week we’re in conversation with photographer, artist, author, and…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Dancing in the Dragon's Jaw Design Studio Course, UTenn, Knoxville 1:00:01

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Chad Manley is a fellow and lecturer in the School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Nora Jacobs and Carlos Velasco were two of the Masters of Landscape Architecture students in Chad’s spring 2023 Landscape Architecture Design Studio entitled Dancing the Dragon’s Jaw – a deeply imagined course of study designed by…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Miami of Ohio's Institute for Environment & Sustainability Masters of Environment program 1:01:50

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Can you believe it is already back-to-school season? This week, we look at what back to school means for our lifelong learning with plants.This week, we’re in conversation with members of the Miami University of Ohio engaged with Miami’s Institute for Environment and Sustainability Masters of Environment program and Institute for Food Farm to learn…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Thoughtful Alchemy: Sustainable Floral Design, Shane Connolly & Co 56:31

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As we tend toward summer’s end, with end-of-summer and fall events and celebrations perhaps in mind, maybe even winter events in the planning, we turn this week to floristry and how and where it intersects with sustainability – and as our guest today shares, with thoughtfulness.British floral designer Shane Connolly is well-known for his world-clas…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Firescaping, with Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger 1:02:46

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In the throes of fire season, especially in the western regions of North America, this week, we turn to the idea of not only gardening for beauty, food, and/or habitat but also fire preparedness.We’re speaking this week with Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger, biologists, botanists, gardeners, and authors of the new book Firescaping Your Hom…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Value of Native Plants for Gardens Trials, Sam Hoadley Mt. Cuba Center 1:04:15

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Sam Hoadley is the Manager of Horticultural Research at the Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware, a remarkable botanic garden and conservation center as well as one of the country’s leading research and trial gardens for native plant species as well as their old and new cultivars. Open to the public since 2013, Mt. Cuba is dedicated to us all growing at a h…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Olbrich Botanical Gardens centering plants & people of Madison, Wisconsin, w/Erin Presley 56:47

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Erin Presley is the herb, woodland, and pond garden horticulturist at Olbrich Botanical Gardens, a 16-acre, free, public garden founded in 1952 on the shores of Lake Wonona in Madison, Wisconsin. In her position since 2014, Erin has become as much a part of the landscape as the plants and animals of the garden she loves. She has been particularly i…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Coming to our Senses: Wildscape, with Master Naturalist Nancy Lawson 1:00:53

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The garden in summer is at its fullest sensory delight and overwhelm – the peak of sunlight, growing hours, heat, and growth, ripening and even rotting.In this week’s conversation, embrace this sublime sensuality from various perspectives in conversation with master naturalist Nancy Lawson.Lawson is perhaps best known as The Humane Gardener, the ti…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Beautiful Chaos of Garden Inspired Living, with Oklahoma-based Linda Vater 59:16

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The garden in summer is what we all dream of: some downtime, some play time, fresh flavors, fragrances, and of course, flowers and fun. This week we revel in the beautiful chaos of a garden-inspired life with an Oklahoma accent in the company of Linda Vater, author of The Beautiful & Edible Garden, and founder of Potager Blog on Instagram and Garde…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Summer Garden Good Reads: Hedge, with novelist Jane Delury 59:35

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Novelist Jane Delury describes herself as a fledgling (maybe seedling?) gardener after 8 years into gardening being part of her everyday life and loves.This labor and love in life coincide with themes of landscapes, gardens, and gardeners becoming fully-embodied motifs and characters in her fiction writing. They show up in her first novel-in-storie…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Good Citizenship & Right Relationship: Going Beyond Land Acknowledgements w/ Redbud Resource Group 56:42

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This week before July is upon us, and thoughts of what it means to be a citizen fill our minds, hearts, and collective messaging, I am so pleased to be joined by Taylor Pennewell and Rose Hammock of the Redbud Resource Group, an advocacy organization founded in 2020 by Taylor and her cousin Madison Esposito. The Redbud Resource Group believes fierc…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Impermanent Beauty: Solstice Season with Morning Altars' Day Schildkret 1:00:20

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In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and how they are growing our world, I am so pleased to be back in conversation this week with Day Schildkret, the founder, the ongoing creator, and re-creator of the movement and practice known as Morning Altars, bringing together nature, art, and ritual. Day and his work are dev…

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University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Podcast

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Science Café: Climate Solutions: Renewable Energy Storage and Carbon Capture 57:37

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How can renewables such as wind and solar energy produce power for use when the sun isn't shining or the wind ebbs? How can we capture the carbon dioxide that is already in the atmosphere? Join Charles McCrory of the U-M Department of Chemistry and David Kwabi of the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering to discuss new research on renewable ener…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Preparing for National Pollinator Week: The California Bumble Bee Atlas, Leif Richardson of Xerces 1:13:12

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National Pollinator Week is an annual celebration since 2010 in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by Pollinator Partnership. This year National Pollinator Week festivities will take place across the country June 19 – 25, 2023 and in celebration, this week on Cultivating Place we look closely at one particular group of o…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Garden for Wildlife Celebrating 50 Years, National Wildlife Federation's Mary Phillips 1:09:05

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No matter what you might call it – Rewilding, wildscaping, backyard habitats, Acts of Restorative Kindness, Native plant habitat gardening, Homegrown National Park, Perfect Earth, 2/3rds for the Birds, or Garden for Wildlife, the concepts of Conservation + Biodiversity + our Gardens wherever they might be is not a new idea, although it is newly imp…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Normalizing Native Plant Landscape Joy, with the Theodore Payne Foundation 1:09:28

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Welcome June! This week, the third and final-for-now conversation in our series on the state of seed for native ecosystem restoration through the lens of California: seed identified, site-sourced, and grown for conservation & biodiversity support. The foundational level of seed – for scales large and small, and how it grows on from there is top of …

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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High Value Habitat, Pat Reynolds of Heritage Growers Native Seed & Plant 57:37

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Pat Reynolds is a restoration ecologist with more than 30 years of professional experience in the design, implementation, and monitoring of habitat restoration projects, including the effective use of native seed. He is the Director of River Partners’ Native Seed and Plant program, the former General Manager of Hedgerow Farms, and a past Associate …

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Seed Strategies at Scale, Andrea Williams 1:20:25

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This week we kick off a several-part series looking into the state of seed, specifically wildland seed, for conservation and ecological restoration in our world from various perspectives.We start off in conversation with Andrea Williams, the Director of Biodiversity Initiatives with the California Native Plant Society, and from there, a contributor…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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JUST IN TIME FOR MOTHER'S DAY: BLOOM! WITH THE SLOW FLOWERS SOCIETY'S DEB PRINZING 54:51

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We are now mid-May, halfway through a month of graduations, spring celebrations, and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US this coming weekend. Something that all of these celebratory kinds of human-marked rituals and events have in common? We so often mark them with the best of our most loved flowers of the season.With that as our t…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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SOIL: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, with Camille Dungy 1:22:11

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As we head into the exuberance of May and towards Mother’s Day celebrations here in the U.S., this week, we speak again with award-winning poet, scholar, and University Distinguished Professor at CSU, Colorado: Camille Dungy. Her newest book, Soil: The Story of A Black Mother’s Garden, just published on Tuesday, May 2nd, from Simon & Schuster. SOIL…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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BEST OF with David Rawle, Theodora Park, Charleston, S.C. 57:09

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As we close out April, a best of conversation from Mother’s Day 2022. Can we ever get enough nurturing energy in the world? Enjoy!David Rawle is the founder and force (with contribution and support from his wife, Carol Perkins, and a wide variety of community members in Charleston, SC), behind Theodora Park, a public park in Charleston - designed a…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Cultivating Eden with Artist, Landscape Historian & Garden DesignerRebecca Allan 59:11

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This last week of April, we enjoy an art of the garden conversation with artist, historian, gardener and environmental advocate Rebecca Allan. Bronx-New York-based, Rebecca is “known for her richly layered and chromatically nuanced abstract paintings. Her work investigates watershed environments and landscapes and is inspired by her deep interest i…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Earth Day Special: We Are The ARK with Ireland's Mary Reynolds 59:33

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It is now Mid-April, and this week we are celebrating both California Native Plant Week AND the week of Earth Day. Wildflowers are blooming and being admired across the country! In honor of Earth Day 2023 and all of the fierce and tender hopes we have for it, we are back in conversation with Ireland’s Mary Reynolds, self-described as an ex-garden d…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Curiosity in the Field of Dreams with Plantsman Roy Diblik 1:09:28

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Great gardens need great plants, and great plants people the world over, throughout history, have made it their lives calling to bring gardeners great plants – whether introducing native plants to the horticultural trade, selecting best garden varieties from naturally occurring choices by breeding, and by educating both the trade and gardeners in t…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Prairie Up! With Plantsperson Benjamin Vogt 1:05:21

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I know the adage goes that April showers bring May flowers, but based on images from across the Northern Hemisphere – from snowdrops in Vermont, Cherry Blossoms in DC, wildflowers in California, and daffodils peeking out in parts of Colorado between snow storms – April has plenty of her own bloom and the growing season is underway. To inspire your …

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Why Women Grow, with Alice Vincent (aka Noughticulture) 1:00:32

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Alice Vincent is a multi-platform storyteller based in London, and examining with gusto and curiosity the intricacies of words and language, of what it is to be human, to be a woman, and to be always in service to the wonders – large and small, grief-laden and joy-spangled - of everyday life. The author of several previous books, including her natu…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Tyra Shenaurlt, the W. W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Wright Park, Tacoma, WA 58:32

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For this penultimate episode of Women’s History month, Cultivating Place heads to Tacoma, Washington, to chat with Tyra Shenaurlt, horticulture resource supervisor at Metro Parks Tacoma, overseeing, among other things, a hundred fifteen-year-old glass house known as the W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory in Tacoma’s wright park. From March 2021 to…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Seed Keeper(s), with Diane Wilson BEST OF 56:47

7M ago56:47

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This week we revisit a best-of Cultivating Place conversation focusing on seeding our imaginations—metaphorically and literally, with Diane Wilson writer, gardener, emeritus executive director of Dream of Wild Health and, more recently, emeritus executive director of The Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. Diane has long interwoven her garde…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Bringing Back the Natives Tour, Kathy Kramer 1:01:37

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In a continuation of Women’s History Month and our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this world, especially as it relates to improving the impact of our gardening lives on the larger planet, I am so pleased to be in conversation this week with Kathy Kramer.Kathy is a long-time advocate for n…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Loving the Surface of the Earth: Orwell's Roses, with Rebecca Solnit 1:16:59

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In this first week of March, we kick off Women’s History Month in conversation with one of the great critical thinkers and writers of our time, Rebecca Solnit. Writer, historian, feminist, and activist, Rebecca’s long bibliography epitomizes her wide-ranging humanitarian interests—from politics to cultural geography to environmentalism and an abidi…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Winter Keepers, Cookers, and Ciders: James Rich, orchardist and chef 1:01:38

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This last week of February, we return to our love of apples – and the warm comfort of eating and cooking with homegrown ones, a particular joy in late February when spring and summer seem close but also still too far away.We’re in conversation with the UK’s James Rich, orchardist, chef, and author of Apple: Recipes from the Orchard and his latest O…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Uplifting Ujaama with Bonnetta Adeeb and Nathan Kleinman 1:07:52

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Now more than halfway from the winter solstice to the spring equinox, many of us have seeds of spring and summer foods on our minds (and hearts). So, this week we continue our celebration of Black History Month, and love stories, centered on the cooperative, and communal concept of Ujaama, in conversation with Bonnetta Adeeb of Ujaama Seeds, and th…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Love Stories of Abra Lee, Atlanta, GA 1:13:18

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Love is already a theme in the work of Cultivating Place, to be sure, but with last week’s loving work around the restoration of historic apple orchards in southwestern Colorado, and this week’s episode, which I think of as the Love Letters of Abra Lee, love letters, love stories, and loving gardeners is an explicit theme here this month! In celebr…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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For the Love of Apples: The Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project 1:05:15

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As February is upon us we turn from a love letter to biodiversity writ large to a labor of love in conserving the biodiversity of one iconic fruit in large part born of human labor across the ages and the globe – apples. We’re in conversation with Jude Schuenemeyer, who with his wife Addie, has spent decades discovering, researching, documenting, p…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Klamath Mountains, A Natural History, Michael Kauffman & Justin Garwood 1:06:23

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This week we complete our 4-part conservation series kicking off 2023 by taking a broader look at the Klamath River’s namesake region and the importance of knowing any place better from multiple perspectives for the most effective and durable conservation to be truly possible. We’re in conversation with Michael Kauffman, research plant ecologist, e…

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University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Podcast

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Science Café: Mapping ocean biodiversity hotspots 1:08:10

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How does ocean biodiversity change over deep time? Join Matt Friedman, director of the U-M Museum of Paleontology, and Hernán López-Fernández, chair for collections and curator of fishes in the U-M Museum of Zoology. We will discuss how Matt uses old fossil fishes to answer new questions about biodiversity hotspots in ancient oceans. Hernán will he…

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University of Michigan Museum of Natural History Podcast

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Science Café: Of the Galaxy, and Beyond—Photos from the Webb telescope 1:15:35

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The James Webb Space Telescope increases the clarity and resolution of space photography, both within our galaxy and beyond. What do these photos tell us so far and what can we expect in the future? What does it take to put a project like this together? Join Professor and Chair Ted Bergin from the U-M Department of Astronomy as we celebrate the ret…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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The Yurok Tribe's Revegetation Planning for the Undamming of the Klamath River 1:15:08

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Seen in the overview, the 30 x 30 conservation efforts at federal and state levels are tremendous, but as the last two weeks’ conversations have made clear, it is at the landscape and local levels that these conservation efforts work or don’t work, get done or don’t, and ideally get done as thoroughly and thoughtfully as possible.This week we focus…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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A Voice for Plants: The California Native Plant Society & 30 x 30 conservation goals 1:03:08

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This week we continue our multi-part series on the many facets of the global 30 x 30 conservation efforts as they continue across the state of California as just one example of local, state, and national efforts aggregated. We're in conversation with Jun Bando, the new executive director of the California Native Plant Society, and back in conversat…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Conserving Biodiversity & Habitat 30 x 30, with Jennifer Norris 55:55

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Welcome, 2023! This week Cultivating Place kicks off a multi-part series devoted to the international, national, state, and local conservation efforts collectively known as 30 x 30 – a multi-faceted commitment by governments, agencies, and localities to securely preserve 30% of our world’s biodiversity by 2030. While President Joe Biden committed t…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Garden Masterclass - calling all gardeners: Annie Guilfoyle & Noel Kingsbury 56:26

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As we look out over a new garden year this week, a conversation to help us meet our garden learning goals. Award-winning designers, writers, educators, and consummate plant-driven gardeners Annie Guillefoyle and Noel Kingsbury join us to share more about their year-round and globally accessible Garden Masterclass forum. Listen in!Cultivating Place …

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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What it means to be a gardener, community-based restoration ecology, Cris Sarabia 1:02:40

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Cris Sarabia is the conservation director of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. He is also a dedicated and active member of many local land and conservation organizations in his home region of North Long Beach, in Southern California, including GreyWater Action Network, the California Native Plant Society, Pelecanus, and Puente Latino, a …

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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A Winter Solstice offering: The Marginalian in the garden, with Maria Popova 59:48

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This week, a pre-Solstice offering for Cultivating Place listeners! Maria Popova is the creator and writer behind The Marginalian (formerly known as Brain Pickings), which, for the past 16 years, has been a daily—perhaps even hourly—exploration of wonder in our world as seen through the lenses of how we as humans express ourselves in our own creati…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Learning from gardeners -past with Judith Tankard, Landscape Historian 55:10

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This week – we visit and learn from gardeners' past as we look to the future in conversation with Judith Tankard, a landscape historian, author, and preservation consultant. Tankard is the author or co-author of twelve illustrated books on landscape history, including her most recent publications, Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Befriending our sites with The Garden Refresh in conversation with Kier Holmes 53:56

10M ago53:56

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Kier Holmes is a garden designer and writer regularly contributing to the likes of Martha Stewart, Better Homes and Gardens, Gardenista, Sonoma Magazine, Marin Magazine, and Sunset Magazine. She is also a children’s garden and science educator.In her writing and designing, she focuses on low-cost and low-impact, chemical-free, richly textured, visu…

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Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden

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Thankful: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, Rebecca Schiller 1:02:59

10M ago1:02:59

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Dear All,Rebecca Schiller is a gardener, a smallholding steward, an activist, and author of: A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention, A Memoir of Coming Home to My Neurodivergent Mind – about grounding back to land, place, and garden - even after a surprising diagnosis of severe ADHD. Schiller’s writing and her gardening-life vividly reminds us all that b…

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