E118: The Human Impulse to Garden with Jennifer Jewell from Cultivating Place Podcast
Episode 118: Listen here!
How we garden, why we garden, and what we mean when we garden are all questions we explore deeper in today's episode with the podcast host of Cultivating Place, Jennifer Jewell. Join us as we talk about the unique relationships gardeners have with their gardens and more on Jennifer's podcast that explores natural history and the human impulse to garden.
But first…
The theme for this week’s Favourite Thing is….Root Vegetables
Dave’s Fav Thing: Radiance Sweet Potatoes, a reliable variety for cold, Canadian climates
Maggie’s Fav Thing: Music Hardneck Garlic, a rookie friendly variety for the prairies
Read Maggie’s blog Hardneck Garlic Planting Guide for Cold Climates.
Read Dave’s blog Love the Garlic!
Listen to Episode 47 of The Grow Guide all about Planting Garlic
This week’s listener question also touches on sweetpotatoes, wondering about slips and whether they were properly grown
This week’s guest: Jennifer Jewell
Jennifer is an American gardening author and host of the NPR podcast, Cultivating Place — a weekly podcast discussing natural history and the human impulse to garden. She is based in interior Northern California where she gardens in her Zone 8 garden, which is filled with herbs, native plants and flowers.
This week’s episode covers:
Jennifer’s background and how it evolved into a career in gardening (0:23:10)
What Jennifer noticed gardening was being wrongly expressed in mainstream media (0:28:00)
The similarity she’s found all gardeners share despite our own personal reasons for planting a garden (0:34:45)
What she’s learned about the various autumnal harvest traditions and celebrations that exist around the world (0:37:00)
What her native plant landscape looks like in northern California (0:46:00)
Jennifer’s biggest takeaway from all the conversations she’s had on Cultivating Place Podcast (0:48:30)
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