Pansies! It's What's for Spring! with Brenna Estrada
From Cultivating Place by Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place
April 2, 2026 · 55 min
About this episode
Brenna Estrada discusses her book on pansies and the deeper connections between growing plants and personal growth.
Brenna Estrada is the owner and founder of Three Brothers Blooms, a flower farm located on 2.5 acres of Camano Island in the Pacific Northwest. Brenna is also the author of Pansies, How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas, published by Timber Press just over a year ago. Brenna makes a compelling case for revisiting our relationship to pansies, and her book was CP Host Ben Futa's own gateway to growing nearly 1,000 plants from seed in 2026. Their conversation this week spans many topics, with pansies as a worthy and common thread. As happens often in this work, we're reminded how this process of growing plants is just as much about cultivating ourselves as it is about cultivating our places. 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 www.cultivatingplace.com.
People in this episode
Host: Jennifer Jewell
Guest: Brenna Estrada
Topics covered
- pansies
- flower farming
- self-cultivation
- gardening
- plant growth
Keywords
- pansies
- flower farm
- gardening
- self-cultivation
- Ben Futa
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Three Brothers Blooms, Timber Press
Books & works: Pansies, How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas
Places: Camano Island, Pacific Northwest
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