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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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 l...

  • Added: May 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 ...

  • Added: May 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 i...

  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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We are now mid-May, half way through a month of graduations, spring celebrations and weddings, and Mother’s Day is upon us here in the US this comi...

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  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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, sch...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:17:40
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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 i...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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t 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...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 g...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 snow drops in Vermont, C...

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  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 wh...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 reso...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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In a continuation of Women’s History Month, and our ongoing expiration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, and what they are growing in this...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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, Reb...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 home grown ones, a particular joy in ...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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). S...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Abra and members of the Oakland Cemetery horticulture and administrative teams in Atlanta, January 2023; Images from the Auburn University’s Black Garden History graduate class’ award-winning show garden, "Mixed Shades, Much Joy” at the 2022 Philadelphia , Credit: Jennifer Jewel
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 orc...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 impo...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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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 Cali...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:00