Cultivating Place

Series produced by North State Public Radio

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Essential connections exist between nature, our gardens, and our places in both. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program and podcast that explores what we mean when we garden.

You know that physical response you get when you go outside after a refreshing rain? That scent of green – calming and energizing at the same time? Research from around the world shows that looking at or thinking about the beauty of nature, in our gardens or in the larger natural world, soothes our tensions, stimulates our productive energies and even makes us more thoughtful, generous people.

But that's just part of why we garden. And why we garden, and how we express ourselves through our gardens and our interactions with the natural world, is at the heart of this award-winning program and podcast from North State Public Radio.

Thousands of gardeners and natural history enthusiasts listen weekly to Cultivating Place and find this exploration fascinating – and I’m sure many of your listeners will too, as some 38 percent of American households garden, and an even greater percentage (42 percent) of NPR listeners garden!

Cultivating Place would be a perfect pairing in your weekend lineup, or anytime.

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For the standard rate on Public Radio Exchange (PRX), Cultivating Place has weekly episodes ready for upload that are formatted to fit NPR’s standard-operational clock.

- 59-minute show
- Option for a five minute news breakaway between 01:00 - 06:00
- Two one-minute (floating) local break availabilities
- Break availabilities for specific episodes are given in each individual episode's timing and cues section
- Show is uploaded by 12 AM EST/9 PM PST every Monday
- Promo for following week's show also uploaded by 12 AM EST/9 PM PST every Monday

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Here's what one listener wrote:

“Inspiring, thoughtful and moving (On Being for Gardeners): Jennifer Jewell has a warm and very thoughtful interview style. Her guests range from revered landscape designers and gardeners with newly published books, to passionate home gardeners … often I’m moved as Jennifer and her guest put words to the magic and nourishment found in gardening and being in nature.”

Contact us prior to air, or to get more information about individual episodes, upcoming specials or the series.

Contact: Sarah Bohannon, producer, Cultivating Place
Email: nsprsocial@gmail.com
Phone: 530-898-3959 Hide full description

You know that physical response you get when you go outside after a refreshing rain? That scent of green – calming and energizing at the same time? Research from around the world shows that looking at or thinking about the beauty of nature, in our gardens or in the larger natural world, soothes our tensions, stimulates our productive energies and even makes us more thoughtful, generous people.But that's just part of why we garden. And why we garden, and how we express ourselves through our gardens and our interactions with the natural world, is at the heart of this award-winning program and podcast from North State Public Radio.Thousands of gardeners and natural history enthusiasts listen weekly to Cultivating Place and find this exploration fascinating – and I’m sure many of your... Show full description


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From anecdotal and personal experiences, we know that many gardeners in the world are born of early childhood experiences, while I can’t get every ...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Photo courtesy of Amy Merrick
Since time immemorial flowers have accompanied humans on our journeys – this week Cultivating Place welcomes the divine Amy Merrick, writer, floris...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Ken Druse is a gardener and garden writer. This week on Cultivating Place Ken joins us to explore and revel in the scented Side of the garden - the...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Ross Gay is gardener - he is also an award winning poet and a professor. A founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a food justi...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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This week – heading swiftly into the winter holiday season good food cooking and baking and communing – Cultivating Place is joined by grow-your-ow...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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This week we’re settling into the flavors of the Autumn season – and the seasonings we turn to in cooler weather - headed toward the tastes of the ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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In honor of the 1 year anniversary of the CampFire, Cultivating Place is joined this week by Douglas Kent, author of Firescaping, and Calli-Jane De...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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From his "Growing with Plants” blog to his first book "Mastering the Art of Vegetable Growing”, which he researched, photographed and wrote – plant...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Courtesy of Misti Little, Credit: Misti Little
Misti Little is an environmental consultant working in GIS services. As a naturalist, gardener, explorer and fellow garden audio producer, she (and...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Photos courtesy of Tucker Fitzpatrick - all rights reserved.
Tucker Fitzpatrick is a home gardener who thinks a lot about how cultural norms and biases directly impact how and why we garden in interesting way...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Mary Reynolds
Irish plantswoman Mary Reynolds has cultivated a deep love of her place in the mountains of Wicklow, Ireland - in all its complexity and mystery. ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: courtesy of Abelow Sherman Architects
"the history of architecture and humankind’s underlying psyche is to connect to the outdoors - people always talk about light and view in relation ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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"Loss is the twin of love" – so writes Margaret Renkl in her human and moving memoir of place, plants, people and life entitled "Late Migrations – ...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Baylor Chapman loves plants and she’s spent a good part of her career helping people to learn about, see, love and care for plants wherever people ...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Lauren E. Oakes, used by permission
Dr. Lauren E. Oakes is a conservation and adaptation scientist working to model and communicate how people can adapt at local levels to the GLOBAL ...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Photo of Rowen and heritage corn, courtesy of The Native Seed Pod.
As we head into the month of the September, and we tend toward the Autumnal Equinox later in the month, I am reminded of this being one of the best...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Alpine and Steppe plants are uniquely interesting individuals and communities of plants that thrive in extreme conditions of high elevations and dr...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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On Cultivating Place this week we speak with two Landscape Architects who came together to create and offer out to the gardening world beautiful, f...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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David Newsom is a filmmaker, storyteller, and outdoorsman. But when his daughter was born he realized he wanted to bring her butterflies, bees and ...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Courtney Allen
This week we dive deep into a conversation on being more observant in our places with historic preservationist Courtney Allen, Director of Public P...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:00