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Speakers
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Speaker Organization Title (Topic)
Brian Barth Live Earth Farm Permaculture: One of the Smartest Garden Arts
Learn Permaculture Design Principles and apply them in garden, farm, or public landscapes. Develop smart, simple, and productive systems to grow food, irrigate, control weeds, fertilize, and more. Design your home, garden, livelihood, and neighborhood as an interdependent system and prevent unsustainable energy use in both petroleum and human labor.
Roxanne Evans EcoCentric Design Company You Are Here: Plants that Want to Live in the Monterey Bay Area's Microclimates
Brett Graf Habitat Gardens Stepping Stones to Sustainability
Dan Harder UCSC Arboretum, University
of California, Santa Cruz		 The Light Brown Apple Moth Reconsidered
John Laird California Assemblyman,
27th Assembly District		 (California Legislation on Water Conservation)
Bobby Markowitz Earthcraft Landscape Design Rainwater Harvesting & Water-wise Plant & Irrigation Choices
Cynthia Sandberg Love Apple Farm How to Grow Better Tomatoes
Roy Sikes Soquel Creek Water District Weather-Based Irrigation Controller Installation Program
Monique Smith Lee California Bat Conservation Fund (Bats in the Garden)
Robin Stockwell Succulent Gardens Succulent Plants: Conservationists of the Plant World
Success in growing succulent plants can be better achieved with an understanding of the evolution of these plants.
Thomas Wittman
 Gophers Limited Controlling Gophers and Moles without Poison
Humane tools for control of gophers and moles. Barriers ranging from gopher baskets to under-ground fence designs. Attracting natural predators. Using gopher repellents, e.g., noisemakers, drenchs and animal urine, and trapping techniqes, live and fatal. Urban myths.