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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
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
As we enter the season of seed saving, of easing into dormancy, beginning to consider next season through the lens of the last season, of forward p...
- Added: Oct 13, 2021
- Length: 59:00
In our second episode focusing on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them, Cultivating Place is joined this wee...
- Added: Oct 06, 2021
- Length: 59:00
In July of 2002 I produced an episode about the summer monsoon and spadefoots. It was so much fun to write and record. In July of 2013 I re-recorde...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 04:35
I grew up in Kentucky where the state flower is goldenrod. The particular species that has that honor is Solidago gigantea. I wonder how it was cho...
- Added: Sep 28, 2021
- Length: 05:21
This week Cultivating Place offers out the first in a two-part series on the sacred of the everyday in our seasonal garden lives, the first in conv...
- Added: Sep 08, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Rebecca McMackin is an ecologically focused horticulturist and garden designer. For the past decade, she has been the Director of Horticulture for ...
- Added: Aug 25, 2021
- Length: 59:00
At a time when our gardens large and small often feel more important than ever, I think our focus on exactly what our gardens contain and consist o...
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Bees are dying worldwide from pesticide use, disease, and habitat loss, which is putting our food supply at risk. One company is looking to help sa...
Bought by KUNC & The Colorado Sound and KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Aug 12, 2021
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 2
In the heat of the dog days of summer, Cultivating Place celebrates the farms and gardens striving to not draw down resources but to contribute res...
- Added: Aug 11, 2021
- Length: 59:00
This week on Cultivating Place we continue our high-elevation garden view, now in Vail, Colorado at The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, leaders in the r...
- Added: Aug 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 02:00
David Godshall is a landscape architect, gardener, and meta-garden philosopher making his way with his young family and his Terremoto Landscape Arc...
- Added: Jul 14, 2021
- Length: 59:00
What does it take to keep your lawn looking green and healthy? A lot of people say you need to use fertilizer. But do you really? And what’s the co...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 09, 2021
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 1
As our podcast series concludes and our cicada friends begin their new 17-year cycle, Dr. Gene Kritsky from Mount St. Joseph University talks about...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 24:34
- Purchases: 1
At a time in the gardening world when we're hearing the phrase "ecologically functional gardens" and "ecological landscape design" with great regul...
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 59:00
