Please welcome Lau Hodges, the latest victim of our all-too-infrequent series, Get a Job. What do you do for a living? I have the greatest job ever! I am the Director of Operations and Exhibitions at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers. I will be the first to admit that the operations [...]
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Body: Posted by Bert CreggLast week I posted about some horticultural disasters I witnessed in the Czech Republic. This week the chamber of horrors. […]
Biodiverse Lawn by Coalition Member Thomas Christopher Like other members of this group, I believe that the contemporary model of lawn has got to go.. […]
Body: Posted by Linda Chalker-Scott If you've been following us for a while, you might remember a post from August 2009 when I got cranky about a pot. […]
Please welcome Chad Smiley to the latest in our Get a Job series, in which we explore the many strange and wonderful careers in horticulture. Chad works for Friend of Rant Genevieve Schmidt. If you’d like to nominate someone to be interviewed in this series, please post a comment!...
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Next up in our semi-regular Get a Job series is Sharon Stolen, coordinator of the Master Gardener program and all-round incredible resource for all things horticultural in southern California. She’s an incredibly smart, friendly, talented woman who works harder than anyone I know, and remains incredibly generous with her...
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Next up in our semi-irregular ‘Get a Job‘ series: GardenRant reader and winemaker, Anne Lerch of Hood River Vineyards. What do you do for a living? My husband and I own and operate a small orchard, vineyard and winery in Oregon. We grow cherries, pears, and winegrapes, plus some...
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Next up in our ongoing “Get a Job” series: Jeff Gillman, horticulture professor and author. What do you do for a living? I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of Horticultural Science at the University of Minnesota. How’d you get started in this job, or what...
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Next up in our ongoing “Get a Job” series is the delightful Emma Alpaugh, senior publicist at Timber Press. Here she is looking surprisingly unharried. Don’t let that fool you! What do you do for a living? I am Senior Publicist at Timber Press, a Portland, Oregon, publisher of...
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Ever dream of quitting your day job and pursuing your passion for plants? Do what you love and the money will follow, that sort of thing? Well. We here at GardenRant World Headquarters know quite a few people who have done just that. So we called them up...
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