Sustainability and Stewardship – A Conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler

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 ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF Brent Figlestahler, All Rights Reserved.

You can listen to Sustainability and Stewardship – A Conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Sustainability and Stewardship – A Conversation with Brent “Fig” Figlestahler is an episode from Cultivating Place by Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place.

This episode is 01:04:32 long.

This episode was published on May 28, 2026.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Cultivating Place when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.