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Issues & Ideas: Fire resistant landscapes, Camp SLO and See Canyon apricots

On this week's episode of Issues & Ideas: Do you want to make your home wildfire resistant? A landscape design expert says much of the conventional wisdom about native landscapes and fire is wrong. Greg Rubin, president and founder of California's Own Native Landscape Design, is coming to San Luis Obispo on August 1 to share techniques he has developed to create sustainable, ecologically responsible, fire-resistant landscapes. 

Also, we get to know more about the role Camp San Luis Obispo plays as a California Army National Guard training base. The garrison commander, who is also a Cal Poly grad, tells us about the base's state-of-the-art training facilities, used by federal and state military and civilian agencies. In our regular Playing With Food segment, the apricots in See Canyon are ripe for the picking, and Father Ian learns the ingredients needed to produce the best crop ever. Finally, we’ll hear from a multi-generational farming family in Santa Barbara County that is taking on California’s so-call “Green Rush:” moving from avocados to cannabis.

Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
Fr. Ian Delinger currently serves as Rector at St Stephen's Episcopal Church in San Luis Obispo. He was born on the Central Coast, and was raised in both rural western Nebraska and on the Central Coast. He studied Chemistry at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Then, he moved to the Silicon Valley where he was as a project manager in a consulting firm which specializes in environmental, health and safety issues for the semiconductor manufacturing industry and other high technology industries, followed by a couple of stints in corporate events management and marketing.
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