Welcome to Space by Stansons. Listen to raw, thought-provoking conversations with key players in the interiors industry, as we challenge conventional thinking towards aesthetics and sustainability. Most importantly our objective is to inspire designers to think holistically, creating spaces where people of today and the future, truly flourish.
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About the Idea Collective We are a community of small business owners dedicated to uniting entrepreneurs on our shared journey. Founded during the pandemic, this group has now spread nationwide and around the world. We have members in nine states and four countries. All our guests at the retreat will receive a free six-month membership to this community to benefit from its small business support. Let go of the daily rollercoaster of business ownership. Come be a part of a community that unde ...
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Is it best that our food is Local and Organic or Big and Conventional? Our view is “Both, and..” We don’t come to the table with a bias, except that good farming like good food comes in all shapes and sizes. Farm to Table Talk explores issues and the growing interest in the story of how and where the food on our tables is produced, processed and marketed. The host, Rodger Wasson is a food and agriculture veteran. Although he was the first of his family to leave the grain and livestock farm a ...
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Food Garden Life Show: Helping You Harvest More from Your Edible Garden, Vegetable Garden, and Edible Landscaping
Steven Biggs: Horticulturist and edible landscaping expert.
Want to grow your own food but need creative ideas so you can get the most from your space and your growing zone? Our passion is the edible garden. We help people grow food on balconies, in backyards, and beyond—whether it’s edible landscaping, a vegetable garden, container gardens, or a home orchard. There are many ways to approach edible landscaping. Find out how to harvest enough fruit, vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers. Get top tips for exotic crops. And learn how to garden in a way ...
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The Humble Entrepreneur - Robert Terry Welcome to the Humble Entrepreneur Podcast - my own personal take on life and business. I’ve been in business since 2005 and am co-owner of Nationwide Ventilation Ltd, installing commercial kitchen ventilation systems. We’ve worked with some of the biggest names in our industry including KFC, Gordon Ramsay and even Taylor Swift! The podcast gives you an insight in my journey and what I’ve learned along the way. #humble. Contact me on robert@kitchenextra ...
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Pillow Talk w/ Mike and His Wife is the cozy, heartfelt, and sometimes hilariously random nightly conversation you didn’t know you needed. Join Mike — lovable, talkative, and spontaneous — and his brilliant, grounded wife as they climb into bed, hit record, and share the final five minutes of their day — real, unfiltered, and filled with love, laughter, gratitude, and the occasional debate over steak, Costco chickens, or how not to bring a money tree back from the dead. In each short episode ...
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Farmers around the world are resisting industrial monoculture in favor of biodiversity and soil-first practices with practical land stewardship rooted in indigenous knowledge, community building and long-term economic resilience. Regenerating Earth: Farmers Working with Nature to Feed Our Future by Kelsey Timmerman (Patagonia Books) provides a glob…
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First Look! 👀 The Untapped Design Secret to 10x Employee Performance with Kay Sargent
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8:23Neurodivergence diagnoses are more common than ever, and yet our workplaces struggle to keep up with the needs of the very people who inhabit those spaces. In the latest episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley welcomes Kay Sargent, Senior Principal and Director of Thought Leadership, Interiors at HOK for a deep dive into the quickly evolving…
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It is 100% true that small farms can be profitable however small farms increasingly need to do further processing. Just selling vegetables to a Farmers Market may no longer be a sufficient business model. Just a single farmer by themselves faces a very hard farm life. To be the best that it can be a single farmer will be better with a group or a co…
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Small farms can be profitable farms, especially if they adapt and grow to include adding value to their production. Michael Kilpatrick is a farmer and educator who is passionate about equipping farmers with the tools and systems they need to thrive! He offers educational resources as host of the Thriving Farmer podcast and through his virtual summi…
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The Secret Sauce Behind the World’s Best Workspaces
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38:13Successful design is an offering that’s made to every one of our senses - an attempt to create an experience that evokes feeling. In the latest episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley welcomes Susan Bold, Design Director at Echospace, for an exploration into the fascinating intersection of design, culture and psychology in the interior desig…
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Although it is appealing to go solo, succeeding in the food system today requires working in cooperation with others: family, neighbors, associations, boards, committees, suppliers, or customers. Working out a partnership or agreeing to serve on a board or committee, may not be what you signed up for but good luck trying to go it alone. Blake Hurst…
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First Look! 👀 The Secret Sauce Behind the World’s Best Workspaces
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5:47Successful design is an offering that’s made to every one of our senses - an attempt to create an experience that evokes feeling. In the latest episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley welcomes Susan Bold, Design Director at Echospace, for an exploration into the fascinating intersection of design, culture and psychology in the interior desig…
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Feeding 1.4 Billion – Dr. Sat Kumar Tomer
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36:58With a growing population of 1.4 billion people to feed, farmers in India are under constant pressure to increase productivity despite diminishing resources. Nearly half the population and most rural livelihoods rely on agriculture.. With volatile weather patterns and pest infestations, crop diseases and limited natural resources , Dr. Sat Kumar To…
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The Art of Designing with Intention with Michelle Carr
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50:45What if workplace design could transform both company culture and employee well-being? In this episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley sits down with Michelle Carr, Creative Director at Habit Action, to explore the need for a shift in workspace design - from the purely aesthetic to being deeply human-centred. What You’ll Learn The "Four F's"…
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DC Central Kitchen combats hunger and poverty through job training and job creation in Washington DC, providing hands-on culinary training for individuals facing high barriers to employment while creating living wage jobs and bringing nutritious, dignified food where it is most needed. Social ventures include serving scratch-cooked farm-to-school m…
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First Look! 👀 The Art of Designing with Intention with Michelle Carr
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4:54What if workplace design could transform both company culture and employee well-being? In this episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley sits down with Michelle Carr, Creative Director at Habit Action, to explore the need for a shift in workspace design - from the purely aesthetic to being deeply human-centred. What You’ll Learn The "Four F's"…
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Ariane Daguin is the founder of D’Artagnan and the visionary behind the new All For One One For All (AOOA) Farm in New York’s Hudson Valley.Known as the “Mother of Farm-to-Table” in America, Ariane has spent decades shaping how we source, prepare, and think about our food. She introduced organic, humanely raised meat to top chefs across the U.S. an…
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Long, Skinny Garden? Hear How We Tweak This Space
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19:14Are you thinking of growing a potted olive tree? Or maybe you already have one…but you’re still waiting for olives. Olive trees are tough as nails. They can take more cold than many people realize. And they’re really beautiful, too. Put these all together, and you have a great potted plant for a cold-climate garden. In my new book, Grow Olives Wher…
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Asking is The Only Way to Get What You Want: A Playbook for Junior Designers by Ezgi Elitok
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37:59Being a wide-eyed, hopeful junior designer on the lookout for a dream job sounds lovely, but the truth about entry-level jobs in design is - unpaid internships, the Catch 22 conundrum of “lack of experience” and a serious test of perseverance. In this eye-opening episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley welcomes Ezgi Elitok to the podcast as …
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Fresh Eyes to Fix Farms – John Kempf
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1:00:37What happens when an Amish farmer in the world’s 4th largest Amish community, farming with horses, recognizes that overdosing with chemical “solutions “is killing the soil? When that Amish farmer is John Kempf it leads to fresh eyes for actions that can bring soil back to life. In Europe for hundreds of years Amish farmers were known for resuscitat…
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First Look! 👀 Asking is The Only Way to Get What You Want: A Playbook for Junior Designers by Ezgi Elitok
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6:57Being a wide-eyed, hopeful junior designer on the lookout for a dream job sounds lovely, but the truth about entry-level jobs in design is - unpaid internships, the Catch 22 conundrum of “lack of experience” and a serious test of perseverance. In this eye-opening episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley welcomes Ezgi Elitok to the podcast as …
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There is Organic and there is beyond Organic to regenerative organic, including soil health, animal welfare and social. California Certified Organic Farmers, CCOF, advances organic agriculture for a healthy world: advocating for organic policies, supporting the growth of organic through educationand grants and providing organic certification. A non…
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Want to Switch Out Your Annuals? Try These Herbs Instead
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19:11Are you thinking of growing a potted olive tree? Or maybe you already have one…but you’re still waiting for olives. Olive trees are tough as nails. They can take more cold than many people realize. And they’re really beautiful, too. Put these all together, and you have a great potted plant for a cold-climate garden. In my new book, Grow Olives Wher…
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Traditional Design Is Dead with Tracy Drury
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43:06How are natural materials, AI integration, and inclusive design reshaping the future of commercial interiors? In this revealing episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley sits down with Tracy Drury, Head of Innovation at Stansons, to explore emerging design trends, including the rise of sustainable materials like coconut-based foams, natural wo…
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Food System Fights – Stuart Gillespie
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1:00:00Food is life but our food system isn’t helping. Designed in a different century for a different purpose—to mass-produce cheap calories to prevent famine—it’s now generating obesity, ill health, and premature death. We need to transform it into one that can nourish all eight billion of us and the planet we live on. That is the story learned in Food …
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First Look! 👀 Traditional Design Is Dead with Tracy Drury
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8:46How are natural materials, AI integration, and inclusive design reshaping the future of commercial interiors? In this revealing episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley sits down with Tracy Drury, Head of Innovation at Stansons, to explore emerging design trends, including the rise of sustainable materials like coconut-based foams, natural wo…
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MAHA’s Report – Callie Eideberg & Rodger Wasson
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54:32The long-anticipated MAHA Report : “Making our children healthy again” is published. In the preamble it claims “to be a call to action, presenting the stark reality of American Children’s declining health, backed by compelling data and long-term trends.” It unpacks the potential dietary, behavioral, medical and environmental drivers behind the cris…
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Hear How We Tweak a Public Space to Keep the Aesthetic but Add Edibles
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23:00Are you thinking of growing a potted olive tree? Or maybe you already have one…but you’re still waiting for olives. Olive trees are tough as nails. They can take more cold than many people realize. And they’re really beautiful, too. Put these all together, and you have a great potted plant for a cold-climate garden. In my new book, Grow Olives Wher…
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Breaking Through Burnout with David Jackson
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41:24Burnout is an unwelcome visitor - one that we’ve all met (designers, no exception), hope to never meet again and surprisingly, stand to learn a lot from. In this revealing episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley sits down with David Jackson, Design Manager at British Land's coworking brand, Storey, for an honest exploration of professional b…
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Listen For Voice Of Agriculture – Rodger Wasson
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33:02Agriculture, from farms to tables, have voices to be heard. Farm To Table Talk host Rodger Wasson brings his own voice to the table with farmers, chefs, policy makers, innovators and dreamers with conversations that offer ideas and inspiration to the food system . The table turns in this conversation as Rodger is a guest on Capri Cafaro's Eat Your …
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In this cozy and candid episode of Pillow Talk, Mike and his wife navigate the blurry lines between casual conversation and podcast hosting. From sweet affirmations and career support to school testing fatigue and spicy late-night regrets, it's a raw, loving snapshot of life together—complete with final thoughts on sleep, love, and heartburn.…
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First Look! 👀 Breaking Through Burnout with David Jackson
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7:41Burnout is an unwelcome visitor - one that we’ve all met (designers, no exception), hope to never meet again and surprisingly, stand to learn a lot from. In this revealing episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley sits down with David Jackson, Design Manager at British Land's coworking brand, Storey, for an honest exploration of professional b…
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Pillow Talk: Scavenger Hunts, Broadway Surprises, and 12 Fish Later
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13:16This episode is a whirlwind of sweet chaos. Mike and his wife recount a packed week filled with concerts, green pool water, a surprise Broadway night, and a perfect day on the water with their nephews. From scavenger hunts in the city to quiet moments of gratitude on Mother’s Day, Episode 6 is a beautiful reminder that life’s best memories are ofte…
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Farmers Should Earn More/Work Less – Ari Memar
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55:57Farmers work too hard for what they earn. They need to earn more and work less for their way of life that should be profitable. Small farms are critical to local communities and food systems, but are especially outmatched by the resources available to larger farms — technology, equipment, sales and marketing teams, and back office staff. So in part…
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Pillow Talk: Fogged Out, Still Showing Up
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10:23Tonight’s episode is all about missed plans, deep empathy, and small moments that still matter. Mike and his wife reflect on a fogged-out boat ride, restless sleep, tough school days, and why showing up — for each other, for family, and for themselves — is what really counts. Real, relatable, and filled with the kind of love that doesn’t need a big…
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Disrupting the Design of Wellness Spaces with Alex Pellew
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47:04The space you work in, can make or break your growth as an organization. In the latest episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley welcomes Alex Pellew, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer, Until, for a riveting conversation on the intersection of wellness, healthcare, and thoughtful design; and the business strategy that drives it all. What…
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PillowTalk: I’m glad I get to wake up next to you
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16:59A weekend full of boat rides, concerts, canceled plans, and a whole lot of love. Mike and his wife reflect on the little wins, the letdowns, and the moments that made them grateful — from surprise gifts and good friends to the people they miss and the step-parenting they’re proud of. Real talk, sweet vibes, and a reminder to hold on tight to the pe…
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The food system is extremely inefficient with 237 million tons going unsold or uneaten.--becomingfood waste, which goes t to landfill, incineration, or down the drain, or simply left in the fields to rot. That’s almost 120 billion meals’ worth of food that goes unsold or uneaten each year, roughly 1.4% of U.S. GDP. The impacts on climate and enviro…
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Tonight, Mike and his wife reflect on launching the boat, sharing dinner, and surviving a sleepless night — all while recommitting to showing up daily. It’s a tired, tender, real-life recap… with love, laughter, and talk of giant dogs they’re not getting.By Mike and His Wife
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Pillow Talk: The Tuna Tartare Was Great, But You’re Better
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9:10In Night 2 of Pillow Talk, Mike and his wife reflect on surprise family visits, a perfect salmon dinner, and whether love means getting out of bed to turn on the fan. There’s no big aha moment tonight — just everyday gratitude, a little food talk, and the kind of connection that makes even a regular Tuesday feel sweet. Come wind down with us.…
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First Look! 👀 Disrupting the Design of Wellness Spaces with Alex Pellew
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9:38The space you work in, can make or break your growth as an organization. In the latest episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley welcomes Alex Pellew, Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer, Until, for a riveting conversation on the intersection of wellness, healthcare, and thoughtful design; and the business strategy that drives it all. What…
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In their very first episode, Mike and his wife climb into bed, hit record, and try to figure out what Pillow Talk is even about. From affirmations to Costco chickens, steak debates to gratitude for simple things, they share five minutes of real, spontaneous, and sweet conversation. Cozy, funny, and just a little random — it's the start of something…
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Good Farming Good Health – Camilla Petersen
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58:27To be a good Doctor and to do good health you really need to understand farming and agriculture, because good farming also equals good health and overall wellness, once said Wendell Berry. Dr. Camilla Petersen owns her own concierge medical practice in Missoula Montana where creating good health starts with what we are putting into our bodies. Cami…
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From Geranium Glut to Playful Herb Planter Box! A Container Garden Makeover
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22:36Are you thinking of growing a potted olive tree? Or maybe you already have one…but you’re still waiting for olives. Olive trees are tough as nails. They can take more cold than many people realize. And they’re really beautiful, too. Put these all together, and you have a great potted plant for a cold-climate garden. In my new book, Grow Olives Wher…
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Small Design Changes, Big Impact: The Psychology of Workplace Design with Becky Turner
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44:36In today’s day and age, workplace design is about recognising the invisible, and bringing it to life. In the latest episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley sits down with Becky Turner, Workplace Psychologist at Claremont, for an all new perspective on designing a work space. What You’ll Learn How to design workspaces that accommodate neurodi…
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Degenerative or Regenerative Ag – Mike Lessiter
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44:25Regenerative agriculture is the opposite of Degenerative agriculture. Research and innovative farmers are showing that no-till with cover crops increases net profit, organic matter, water quality, air quality and builds soil while reducing runoff. Regenerating soil allows farmers to literally gain more land and grow more crops profitably without lo…
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First Look! 👀 Small Design Changes, Big Impact: The Psychology of Workplace Design with Becky Turner
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7:18In today’s day and age, workplace design is about recognising the invisible, and bringing it to life. In the latest episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley sits down with Becky Turner, Workplace Psychologist at Claremont, for an all new perspective on designing a work space. What You’ll Learn How to design workspaces that accommodate neurodi…
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Changing what you eat is a journey that may lead to growing, preparing, and marketing before sharing and consuming your food focused dreams. When the destination of the journey is a plant based diet, it may be a challenging transition. When Heather and Reggie Donaldson were moving from LA back to Cincinnati, they knew delicious plant based cheeses …
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Bare Ground, Hard Clay, and not Much Sun: Hear How to Transform this Space
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27:59Are you thinking of growing a potted olive tree? Or maybe you already have one…but you’re still waiting for olives. Olive trees are tough as nails. They can take more cold than many people realize. And they’re really beautiful, too. Put these all together, and you have a great potted plant for a cold-climate garden. In my new book, Grow Olives Wher…
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The Playbook of A Well-Travelled Designer with Scott Malin
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52:42A new season of architecture and design is upon us as the traditional barriers that once defined the world are shifting on a dime. In the latest episode of Space by Stansons, host Guy Stanley welcomes the well-travelled, experienced and versatile Scott Malin to explore the evolution of workplace design. What You’ll Learn The pros and cons of the De…
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