Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. It's February 25th 2019 and I'm Kara Santa Maria. Thanks for joining me this week. In just a few minutes we're going to chat with Gary Paul

Nabhan about his brand-newiest book. But before we do that I want to thank those of

you who have made Talk Nurdy possible this

week and every week and that's because of the support that you make to the

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Thank you all so much from the bottom of my heart.

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All right guys, I'm excited about this week's chat.

It's a fascinating one.

So let me tell you a little bit about Gary

before we get started.

When he was at the University of Arizona, he co-founded Native Seeds and Search.

Those were organizations that co-hosted national conferences on community-based seed banks, nonprofit organizations,

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