Episode 44 – Landscape Planning
Joining me is Jessi Burg, Founder and Head Gardener of Pears To Perennials. Some people garden as a hobby, but for Jessi it is a way of life. As a native of Pennsylvania, she had to learn new ways to maximize her garden production when she moved to Colorado. After years of gardening in the challenging, alkaline soil common to Colorado, she is now an expert. After getting her M.A. in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University, she turned her gardening passion into a business. Her goal is to advance sustainable practices while helping others build and maintain outside spaces. Jessi grows, cans, and preserves her own food, so she can eat out of the garden year round. Now, she can feed three adults for the year on her 150 square foot…