Local talks include, but are not limited to (this is a preliminary list!): Landscape Design, Community Gardens in Tyonek, Rock Gardening, Growing Fruit, Beekeeping, Urban Farming in Anchorage, Organic Gardening, and more! Schedules and Registration materials will be posted on the ABG website soon.
 
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Gary Paul Nabhan is a pioneer of the "local foods" movement and the heirloom seed saving movement. He is a proponent of conserving biodiversity and cultural diversity. A recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award, he has been honored as a "visionary" by Utne Reader, Mother Earth News, Bioneers, Saveur Magazine, and Time Magazine. As the W.K. Kellogg Endowed Chair in Sustainable Food Systems at the University of Arizona Southwest Center, Nabhan works to build more just, nutritious, sustainable and climate-resilient foodsheds. He was among the earliest promoters of the use of native foods in preventing diabetes. Gary is also an orchard-keeper, wild foods forager and pollinator habitat restorationist working from his small farm in Patagonia, Arizona near the Mexican border.

Nabhan has served as Director of Science at the Arizona-
Sonora Desert Museum and co-founded Native Seeds/SEARCH, a nonprofit conservation organization working to preserve indigenous southwestern agricultural plants and knowledge of their uses. Throughout his writings, he inspires communities to bring the local, heirloom fruits, vegetables, herbs, and other foods back into widespread cultivation.

While much of Nabhan's work has focused on the food systems, plants, and cultures of the American Southwest, his messages are far reaching, and relevant to all regions. His book Renewing Salmon Nation's Food Traditions discusses the regional plants and animal species of the Pacific Northwest region, and offers an ethnobotanical record of species that were once abundant in our "Salmon Nation".