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Growing Greener

by Tom Christopher

Your weekly half-hour program about environmentally informed gardening. Each week we bring you a different expert, a leading voice on gardening in partnership with Nature. Our goal is to make your landscape healthier, more beautiful, more sustainable, and more fun.

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Growing Greener features Shawn Maestretti, principal of Studio Petrichor, a landscape design firm in Altadena, California, discussing a counterintuitive approach to pocket gophers—typically viewed as garden pests in western regions. Rather than advocating for extermination or exclusion, Maestretti presents a…

Worth it if you garden in the western US, struggle with gophers, and are open to philosophical reframing of pest management rather than seeking tactical solutions.

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