{"podcast":{"title":"Cultivating Place","slug":"cultivating-place-836884","podcast_index_feed_id":836884,"rss_url":"https://feedpress.me/cultivatingplace","website_url":"https://www.cultivatingplace.com/","image_url":"https://static.feedpress.com/logo/cultivatingplace-57c8653e140db.jpg","author":"Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place","episode_count":500,"summary":"Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden is a weekly public radio program & podcast exploring what we mean when we garden. Through thoughtful conversations with growers, gardeners, naturalists, scientists, artists and thinkers, Cultivating Place illustrates the many ways in which gardens are integral to our natural and cultural literacy. These conversations celebrate how these interconnections support the places we cultivate, how they nourish our bodies, and feed our spirits. They change the world, for the better. Take a listen.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-05T06:21:51.871113+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cultivating-place-836884"},"episode":{"title":"A Radical Plan: Village Homes in Davis, CA turns 50!","slug":"a-radical-plan-village-homes-in-davis-ca-turns-50","published_at":"2026-05-21T16:43:01+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cultivating-place-836884/a-radical-plan-village-homes-in-davis-ca-turns-50","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cultivating-place-836884","url":"https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17345831/a-radical-plan-village-homes","audio_url":"https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17345832/2325066341-user-179107226-a-radical-plan-village-homes.mp3","summary":"This week, we continue plumbing the potential of gardens and gardeners for growing a future we want to cultivate- for the benefit of all. In order to look forward, we look back to the radical plan of a 50-year-old intentionally-designed community and sustainability-oriented housing development, Village Homes, in Davis, California. Central to the intelligent design? You got it, Gardens and Green spaces at every turn, and accessible to all. With the community now celebrating its 50th year, Cultivating Place is joined by Carol Hillhouse, UC Davis Student Farm Associate Director Emeritus, and Robert Thayer, Landscape Architect, both Gardeners by nature and longtime residents of Village Homes. Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit www.cultivatingplace.com.","meta_description":"This week, we continue plumbing the potential of gardens and gardeners for growing a future we want to cultivate- for the benefit of all. In order to look…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3714,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cultivating-place-836884/episodes/a-radical-plan-village-homes-in-davis-ca-turns-50/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cultivating-place-836884/a-radical-plan-village-homes-in-davis-ca-turns-50.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}