May 23, 2024
A Class on Working and Living Sustainably With White Sage
Time: 2 pm PST
Presenter:
Antonio Sanchez
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Webinar Summary
Overharvesting white sage Salvia apiana in California poses a significant threat to its sustainability. To mitigate this, individuals both within and outside California can contribute by cultivating white sage themselves, thereby reducing the pressure on wild populations and aiding in conservation efforts. To cultivate white sage various methods are available. Firstly, growing from seed involves special treatments to enhance germination rates. Additionally, propagation from cuttings is effective, with specific tips for success. Once established, maintaining white sage in a container or garden requires attention to its needs for sunlight, soil type, and watering frequency.
Biography
Antonio Sanchez is the nursery manager and restoration volunteer outreach coordinator for SAMOFund in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, and has been working around native plants for nearly 2 decades. He is co-founder and lead singer of the native plant band Sage Against the Machine, and was lead organizer for the California Native Food Symposium, the Southern California Monarch and Milkweed Conference, the first Ventura County Native Plant Symposium, and the California Native Sage Festival.
Antonio has worked at various native plant institutions around the state, and has managed the nurseries at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, worked as a landscaper at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, worked as a nursery technician at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Native Plants, and co-founded and ran Nopalito Native Plant Nursery in Ventura, CA, with a good friend and a cousin, for nearly 4 years.
He believes in making native plants fun and approachable to all, learning about and teaching old and new ways with native plants, and that Hummingbird Sage is probably the prettiest California native sage, but Salvia pachyphylla is a close second.
