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Plantlife International is a British conservation charity working nationally and internationally to save threatened wild flowers, plants, and fungi...
- Added: Feb 09, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Coming up on Cultivating Place this week, we’re in conversation with a new generation seed farmer, Petra Page-Mann. Petra is a co-founder with her ...
- Added: Feb 02, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Judith Larner Lowry is the plantswoman behind Larner Seeds – Seeds for the California Landscape – Restoring California One Garden At A Time, founde...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:44
This is Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey. Cloudy Cold days these days. Petey talks about lifesaving snow in the desert, the beauty of Sandhill C...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:53
The vast landscapes of the southwest are to die for and every once in a while I capture one with my camera. More and more I remind myself to just t...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:56
There are around 30 species of Porophyllum, the majority of which are found in Mexico and southward. Around me in the borderlands of Arizona Sonora...
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 04:52
Xanthisma gracilis is an annual and found all over the southwest and into Mexico as well. Duh. A common name is slender goldenweed or spiny zinnia....
- Added: Jan 13, 2022
- Length: 05:03
As seed catalogues continue to arrive in our mailboxes and in-boxes daily, filling our notebooks and dreams, we take a behind the scenes look at an...
- Added: Jan 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
KPVI reports that Governor Eric Holcomb has appointed a top employee at the state’s environmental oversight agency to serve as its new leader. Bria...
- Added: Dec 30, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Environmental advocates have for decades touted solar power not only as beneficial but necessary to wean U.S. consumers from what they say is a har...
- Added: Dec 30, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Gary Paul Nabhan is a gardener, an agricultural ecologist, an ethnobotanist, and an ecumenical Franciscan Brother based in Patagonia, Arizona. He i...
- Added: Dec 22, 2021
- Length: 59:00
A conversation with award winning journalist Carey Gilliam who covered the case of Lee Johnson vs. Monsanto.
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 53:59
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is a time of dormancy for the plant and animal kingdoms alike. While it may look relatively still and quiet, it i...
- Added: Dec 15, 2021
- Length: 59:00
As another offering to all of you in your gardens tending toward the Solstice in just a few weeks on December 21st, this week we are in conversatio...
- Added: Dec 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
On this 'enclosed' episode of YBYG Mike takes you behind the glass for a course on Green Houses! Plus your 'enclosing' phone calls!!
- Added: Dec 02, 2021
- Length: 54:58
Mike Sullivan is the author of the trees in San Francisco, Jason De Wees is a horticulturist and author of Designing with Palms and Richard Turner ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This week I’m thankful for my own garden, of course, but also for the good fresh food grown for all of us by so many hard working souls wherever yo...
- Added: Nov 24, 2021
- Length: 59:00
The Wild Seed Project envisions a landscape where people help re-populate the landscape to be abundant with native plants (primarily grown from see...
- Added: Nov 10, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Last week on Cultivating Place, we looked at Gardens and history through the lens of an historic Garden Cemetery – this week we look at Garden Hist...
- Added: Nov 03, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Heuchera is found in the saxifrage family, Saxifracaceae, with 80 other genera that includes the genus Saxifraga and its 400 species. Yikes!
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:06
The glossary in the back of a flora is full of wonderful words that you may never had heard or seen before, especially if you’re not a botanist. I ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:13
The photos are mine of a chiltepin at our our home. It’s one of several we have in pots. They are great in the ground too, but I love the way they ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 04:52
Wandering through a woodland.
- Added: Nov 01, 2021
- Length: 05:16
