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The genus is now Hesperocyparis, but back in the olden days, I learned the rough bark Arizona cypress of southeastern Arizona as Cupressus arizonic...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Image courtesy of Lorene Edwards Forkner, all rights reserved.
In preparation for May and Mother’s Day here in the US, this week we’re in conversation with Lorene Edwards Forkner, a gardener, a writer, a cook, ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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HEADLINES In April, not only do we get to celebrate Earth Day, but we also get to celebrate Arbor Day on April 25th. This will mark the 150th Anni...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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HEADLINES The Friends of Lake Monroe report that in response to a suit filed by Monroe County officials and other plaintiffs, a ruling by the Unite...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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HEADLINES The Hoosier chapter of the Sierra Club issued a report grading Indiana legislators according to their votes for or against various enviro...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:17
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HEADLINES Plastic, literally, has become part of us. We ingest the equivalent of one credit card of plastic a week. —Julianna Dailey

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:11
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HEADLINES Now that the legislative session is over, what was directed at the environment? The Indiana Environmental Reporter has given its assessm...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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HEADLINES Two IU groups, Concerned Scientists at IU and Advocates for Science, recently sent a letter to the university administrators asking the ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
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In honor of Earth Day on April 22nd, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation about a person who committed their career to the idea, design, ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Did you know that pesticide drift interferes with the ability of rural farmers to feed their communities? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registere...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Nitasha Manchanda is a genetic scientist, a mother, a wife, a gardener and the creator and host of a podcast series entitled The Indian Edit – expl...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The California law prohibiting unfair business practices is the basis for the 2003 lawsuit brought against the Pacific Lumber Company by the People...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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John Forti is a garden historian, historic garden horticulturist, and slow food advocate. He has put his years of experience and knowledge into The...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Image courtesy of Emily Murphy, Passthepistil.com, all rights reserved.
Emily Murphy is an ecological gardener, an educator, and an author whose two books focus on gardens of personal and communal purpose. Her 2018 book...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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We are living in stressful times and getting out of the house, if only to your back yard, is always a good idea. Native flora and fauna can cure th...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
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Encelia farinosa (brittle bush, incienso) loves rocky hillsides and gravelly desert. And though this native shrub has a large range showing up in t...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:35
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I forgot to say that the genus Crotalus comes from the Greek krotalon or krotos for rattle or rattling. (A couple favorite native plants are called...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:18
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Lisa Waud is a collaborative, large scale floral and installation artist who likes to invite people in to enjoy flowers, and from there into conver...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Image by Andrew Montgomery, all rights reserved.
Deep into the Winter season, with February’s full moon behind us, this week Cultivating Place is in conversation with British-based garden photogra...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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In the gray gloom of winter, I like to brighten up my house with a colorful bouquet of flowers. And I got to wondering, where do these pristine flo...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
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A conversation with two livestock farmers focused on treating the animals well, and nourishing the land.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: Image courtesy of the Native Plant Trust, all rights reserved.
Reports from around the globe in the last 25 years about the alarming loss of biodiversity on our planet sit heavily with every gardener I know. ...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Photo courtesy of Plantlife International, all rights reserved.
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
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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
Caption: Photo of Judith Larner Lowry by David Griggs, published in the Point Reyes Light, 2020. All rights reserved.
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