{"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":"Gardening for Comfort & Tea: Golden Feather Tea, Mike Fritts","slug":"gardening-for-comfort-tea-golden-feather-tea-mike-fritts","published_at":"2026-02-12T17:24:08+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cultivating-place-836884/gardening-for-comfort-tea-golden-feather-tea-mike-fritts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cultivating-place-836884","url":"https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17275281/gardening-for-comfort-tea-golden-feather-mike-fritts","audio_url":"https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17275282/2265368882-user-179107226-gardening-for-comfort-tea-golden-feather-mike-fritts.mp3","summary":"In these dark, cold days of February, when too much rain or snow, and WAY TO MUCH ICE, or not enough rain or snow, might be getting you down, we take this week, just in time for Valentine’s Day, to embrace, lean into, and love, the comforts of tea. We're in conversation with Michael Fritts, founder of Golden Feather Tea in Concow, CA, exploring some of the history and cultivation, the rituals, and the rewards (which are many) of tea. After more than 15 years at it, and despite massive losses to his garden and farm from the Camp Fire of 2018, Mike joins us to share the ecological, cultural, economic, and personal joys of a traditional Camellia sinensis tea garden in California’s North State. Join us! 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":"In these dark, cold days of February, when too much rain or snow, and WAY TO MUCH ICE, or not enough rain or snow, might be getting you down, we take this…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3485,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cultivating-place-836884/episodes/gardening-for-comfort-tea-golden-feather-tea-mike-fritts/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/gardening-for-comfort-tea-golden-feather-tea-mike-fritts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}