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The 2017 Garden Blogger's Fling is being held in the Washington DC Metro area.  Tammy Schmitt from Casa Mariposa drops by to talk abut the beautiful gardens people can expect to see.

James Brown, owner of New Moon Nursery and fellow native plant enthusiast sits down with us to talk about some of his favorite native plants

Mike is off this week get caught up from not being at home for a week, so John & Jesse sit down with 2016 Cullowhee Native Plant Conference Director Pete Schubert and give a review of how this year's conference was.

Larry Weiner has been designing sustainable landscapes since the 70’s.  He and co-author Thomas Christopher have put together an outstanding book about how our landscapes can be sources of environmental change.

Hometown Habitat is a new film created by Catherine Zimmerman and her team at the Meadow Project.  Catherine stops by to talk with John & Mike about some of her inspirations and latest projects.

We've let Jesse out of the NPP basement again to talk native plants for the summer garden.  Have a listen and hopefully we'll learn ya somethin'.  :)

An interview with Phil Rutter of Badgersett Research Corporation.

We talk about why perennial based woody agriculture is important and how chestnuts and hazelnuts fit into that. We also talk a lot about plant breed and using mass selection to find genotypes that have the traits that you are looking for.

This episode is pretty dense and has a ton of information in it for anyone looking to breed plants. Phil is brilliant and I think I learned more about plant breeding my conversations with him than I ever have anywhere else. Given how much information is in this epsidoe and how long this episode is, I have split it into two parts. This is part 1 of 2.With the second part dropping this Friday, July 11 as episode 58.

Take it all in, enjoy it, and most imporantly do something with this information.

Show Notes: www.permaculturevoices.com/57

Welcome to my bedroom closet!

Today, my guest of honor is a photograph of the San Francisco Polytechnic High School cornerstone, which dedicated Polytechnic alumni are working to return to where the school once stood.

Included in this podcast is a reading of a short story by Marianne Eichenbaum: "I am the Polytechnic High School Cornerstone and this is my journey."  The music used in the podcast is the Our Director march, composed by Frederick Ellsworth Bigelow in 1892 and recorded by the Victor Military Band in 1911.  The recording was furnished by the Library of Congress and is being used for this podcast project with the permission of Sony Music.  Thank you!

For more information about donating to the Polytechnic Cornerstone Project, go to:  http://www.perennialparrot.com.

Warm wishes,

Laurel Anne Hill (Author of "Heroes Arise")
http://www.laurelannehill.com