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Stepping into Alicia N. Ponzio's North Beach, San Francisco studio is a little like time traveling to a renaissance European workshop. With daylight streaming in through high windows, paintings on easels are punctuated everywhere by sculptures, both finished and in progress.

Loren Poncia discovered the powers of carbon sequestration after partnering with the Marin Carbon Project a decade ago. After learning from the environmental stewardship program, Poncia has continued to implement carbon farming practices at Stemple Creek Ranch.


Originally Broadcast - Wednesday, November 10, 2021
NorCal Public Media, in partnership with Sonoma Water, presented a live interactive special program that explores the continuing drought in the Bay Area. Despite recent record breaking rainfall, the Bay Area still has a long way to go before we are safely out of the danger of drought. Our guest is Grant Davis, General Manager of Sonoma Water. How long will it be before our reservoirs are filled up? What water conservation measures can we take at home? What is the future of water saving mandates from the State of California? Learn more about continuing drought and hear viewer questions being answered.
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Dr. Sajeemas "Mint" Pasakdee is a University of California Cooperative Extension master gardener. Her passion is studying the amazing microscopic world of the soil food web: the complex interaction of plants and animals that are the foundation of rich soil that healthy plants depend on.

Kevin Lunny founded West Marin Compost after realizing the local need to recycle organic materials from the area into nutrient-rich and biologically active soil amendments which could be placed right back into the land in Marin County.
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