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Justin Rohner is a presenter and speaker and owner of https://agriscaping.com/ (Agriscaping)! I didn’t realize you have a restaurant. https://agriscaping.com/ () Tell us a little about yourself. Serve a number of restaurants in the Phoenix. About me and who I am which is sort of a serial entrepreneur. honed my skills to put all my eggs in one  https://agriscaping.com/ (Agriscaping) I’m all about improving local food economies strengthening families strengthening communities what I’m doing fits into one of those categories. Tell me about your first gardening experience? born in Alexandra VA just outside Washington DC, my dad was in the FBI I remember a forest, living in a forest and went back and visited it was 4 trees thick by a busy road! It was nothing but a couple of trees but I was a kid. I moved to Arizona when I was young Being in the garden with my mom little kid probably about five years old peas seeing this caterpillar rolling across the slow motion tiny thing in the garden I could be with the caterpillar infatuated by everything about how plants grew and that we could eat this stuff My mom telling me about how the butterflies oddly enough same time of year we’re doing this recording when that  whole scene played itself out. From then on you couldn’t get me back inside.  My mom would yell and I didn’t even hear here because I was just so engrossed in how life worked.  outdoors continue to expand first passionate experience to be in the garden and what it tasted like and how something that had grown I think a lot of my listeners are going to relate to that story about being kids like that and getting lost in the garden maybe even today as an adult! How did you learn how to garden organically? back then backyard gardening there really was only we had our compost piles grandpa owned a dairy farm last in Tempe Az where AZ State U resides dairy farm in the family seeing all that stuff work too normal Distracted me a lot from making this a profession is it was so normal as a kid it was just the normal thing easy stuff tech stuff hormone belittle to use methods I watched that side of the family business shift the way of all the. world that twas I always loved the organic method easier less expensive In my mind it was cheaper, I wasn’t trying to run a commercial so I didn’t need all that techy stuff grew stuff the way I knew photo by Agriscaping Agriscaping is a blend of the best of productive agriculture best of ornamental landscaping! Integrating all the things we do not just food growing production into a landscape! Easy to maintain integrating local food into the local economy foods for fodder for animals and textiles types of things we’re growing too are different then you would expect!  I’m in Pheonix, AZ where the temps get in the 120ºs winter now the temp was below freezing this morning weird but that’s how deserts work and the high today is going to be 71º Do plants like that or does it make it harder to grow? It makes it a little challenging we know we’re still headed into some freezes drop by checking out some of their trees.  Their desert gold peach is starting to bloom! I say ought oh?! We might have some freezes gonna lose all of it’s fruit damage production too early in it’s cycle In the extreme heat it’s definitely a challenge. Our break of the year is usually during June and August. That’s when we back off most of our planting and growing that’s where the major stress things sweet potatoes sunflowers jerusalem artichokes There’s a lot of cool things you can grow during that time but relatively speaking that’s when we take a break. photo curtesy of Agriscaping One thing I saw on your site was your...