Cultivation as Connection: Jennifer Jewell on the Human Impulse to Garden

Gardening is often portrayed as a pastime, an optional extra woven around daily life. Yet across history and across cultures, people have shaped land for reasons that reach far beyond necessity. Jennifer Jewell, host of the acclaimed show Cultivating Place, has spent decades listening closely to gardeners and land tenders. Through those stories, she uncovers a pattern: cultivation is one of the most enduring ways humans connect to place, and its impact reaches well beyond the edge of the gar...