SVTAGS - Middlebrook GardensSilicon Valley Technology, Art, Green & Sustainability talk show with host and Executive Producer Heather Durham. Episode guest Alrie Middlebrook, founder of Middlebrook Gardens, an award winning design/build firm specializing in California native gardening and sustainable landscaping. She is a leading voice in the rising native gardening and sustainability movement. This show could have been hours as we covered so much information on: Sustainable gardens, Native California plants, cooking with native plants, the educational faculty for children and adults at Middlebrook. Alrie has been working as an Architectural Landscaper for over 30 years. She started to incorporate the educational element in the past 10 years. She speaks all over the worked on sustainable gardening. Her book has been reprinted many times and is used as a text book in some schools. From hydroponics to vertical gardens this show packed a lot of information.