Firescaping, with Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger

Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden · Aug 10, 2023 · 1h 2m

In the throes of fire season, especially in the western regions of North America, this week, we turn to the idea of not only gardening for beauty, food, and/or habitat but also fire preparedness. We’re speaking this week with Dr. Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger, biologists, botanists, gardeners, and authors of the new book Firescaping Your Home, a manual for readiness in wildfire country – including 640 resilient native plant recommendations with a focus on native plants of California, Oregon and Washington but widely applicable across wildfire-prone region. Join us! Cultivating Place…