{"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":"Sustainability and Stewardship – A Conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler","slug":"sustainability-and-stewardship-a-conversation-with-brent-fig-figlestahler","published_at":"2026-05-28T18:27:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cultivating-place-836884/sustainability-and-stewardship-a-conversation-with-brent-fig-figlestahler","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cultivating-place-836884","url":"https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17350246/sustainability-and-stewardship","audio_url":"https://feedpress.me/link/14945/17350247/2329123058-user-179107226-sustainability-and-stewardship.mp3","summary":"This week on Cultivating Place, public gardens as living classrooms, the quiet power of trees in city life, and how tending landscapes can cultivate resilience, curiosity, and belonging. Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler, horticulturist, landscape architect, educator, and devoted steward of public green spaces from the cultivated collections and urban woodlands of Cylburn Arboretum Friends, to classrooms, community gardens, and neighborhoods across the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Fig shows what it means to care deeply for plants — and for the people and places connected to them. Listen in! 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. ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF Brent Figlestahler, All Rights Reserved.","meta_description":"This week on Cultivating Place, public gardens as living classrooms, the quiet power of trees in city life, and how tending landscapes can cultivate resil…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3872,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cultivating-place-836884/episodes/sustainability-and-stewardship-a-conversation-with-brent-fig-figlestahler/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/sustainability-and-stewardship-a-conversation-with-brent-fig-figlestahler.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}