Jennifer and the Cultivating Place team explore the power of gardens to affect positive change through the lens of a fiber artist, Sandy Fisher, and her husband, Durl Van Alstyne, living in Interior Northern California and now cultivating a regenerative no-till and habitat-rich flax farm in order to regenerate our fiber industry into one that is good for people, good for planet, and good for place! The conversation makes visible and tangible the power of gardeners to grow the world better.

This Cultivating Place Live podcast episode focuses on the paradigm-shifting landscape work of Leslie Bennett, who is dedicated to beautifully designed, edible-plant-rich, culturally rooted gardens for all people and centers Black Women in the American Landscape.

Produced by Myriam Nicodemus

Senior Producer Josh Long

Producer Kevin DeCloedt

Associate Producer Fr. Brendan McAleer

Associate Producer Jane O’Connor

Graphics by Becky Rodgers

Photography by Myriam Nicodemus