Growing in Mind explores the spectrum of landscape experience, documenting how we relate to place as individuals and societies. On Growing in Mind, Caleb Melchior and Preston Montague speak with people about the culture of landscape - how we both change and are changed by the environments we inhabit.
Welcome
Preston and Caleb introduce Growing in Mind with Brandon George of Horticulture Rising, a podcast dedicated to the future of Horticulture and those taking us there.
Kathryn Aalto
Welcome to our first full episode - with Kathryn Aalto. Kathryn is an American landscape designer, teacher, and historian living in Exeter, England. Her 2015 book, The Natural World of Winnie the Pooh, was a New York Times bestseller. Her most recent publication, Writing Wild: Women Poets, Ramblers, and Mavericks Who Shape How We See the Natural World, celebrates the lives, literature, and landscapes of 25 diverse women who have changed the way humans perceive and experience the natural world. Kathryn is also highly in demand as a speaker with regular lecture tours throughout the United States and Europe. On Twitter and Instagram, she is @kathrynaalto.
Robert Champion
Robert Champion is a landscape designer and writer from New Zealand. He's based in Sydney, Australia, where he runs his own practice, TARN, and teaches at the University of Technology Sydney. We discovered him through his work for The Planthunter, especially “The Value of Front Gardens in a Pandemic, and Always”. Read more about Robert’s work on the TARN website and follow him on Instagram.
Chantal Aida Gordon
Chantal Aida Gordon is a writer, editor and style consultant currently living in Los Angeles. She is especially known for her work on the garden lifestyle site The Horticult, as well as having a book How to Window Box published through Clarkson Potter and a novella published in Issue 64 of published in Issue 64 of American Short Fiction. Follow her personal Instagram, as well as her writing on The Horticult.
Leah Edwards
Leah Edwards is a Historical Landscape Architect with the Cultural Resource Division at the Midwest Regional Office of the National Park Service (in Omaha, Nebraska). She has a Masters of Landscape Architecture from Kansas State University. Her crowning achievement, however, is her performance as an angel in an interfaith educational skit - where Caleb first encountered her. Follow the Cultural Landscapes Program of the National Park Service on Instagram.
Kat Claar
Kat Claar is a flower artist in Philadelphia, PA. She uses cut paper to enhance the qualities of the flowers she loves. You can follow her work on Instagram @fromblossoms.
Matthew Wimberley
Matthew Wimberley is rooted in the southern Appalachians of rural North Carolina. His first book of poems, “All the Great Territories”, explores the grieving process following his father’s death. His work has been published in Best New Poets, Missouri Review, Orion, diode, Pleiades, and others. Buy his book from your local shop and follow him on Instagram.
