"it’s actually about our tending to one another."

January 9, 2021 9:45 AM

Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden, a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring how and why we garden. Episodes feature the founder of the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library, Vivien Sansour; author Jamaica Kincaid on Botany, Geography, History & Power; poet Ross Gay on Structures of Care and so many more.
posted by spamandkimchi (5 comments total)

Oh, this looks (sounds) really wonderful.

I especially want to check out the recent episode with Duron Chavis.

And I quite like their update from this week:

Happy new year gardeners, it was a long - really long - 2020 and it will not be a short 2021 by all forseeable measures. Especially after yesterday. And that’s OK, we are Gardeners we can work with determination, patience, and faith

Lovely.

Thanks so much for posting this, spamandkimchi - I've just subscribed.
posted by kristi at 3:32 PM on January 9, 2021

Yes thanks for sharing. Looks wonderful. Have subscribed.
posted by Zumbador at 4:49 AM on January 10, 2021

For a while I've dreamed of participating in a community garden. At my new place in central Mexico, the owner of the building was planning a rooftop garden just as I moved in.

I'm not a great gardener, but my contribution of a compost tumbler is most welcome... and guess what, I get to know my Mexican and gring@ neighbors a little bit better into the bargain.

Tl;dr: this is highly relevant to my interests.
posted by Sheydem-tants at 2:20 PM on January 10, 2021

Thanks! This looks great, I'm off to give it a listen.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 1:39 PM on January 11, 2021

Ooooh! PS - the October 22nd episode is about a friend of mine, Judith Phillips.
posted by WalkerWestridge at 1:44 PM on January 11, 2021