Doug Gosling, the Garden Manager and Director of the Mother Garden Biodiversity Program at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC), has been managing the seed and plant collection at OAEC for 30 years and has a special interest in preserving food and medicinal crop biodiversity. Doug teaches Seed Saving and Biointensive Gardening; created OAEC’s famously diverse “Mother of all Plant Sales” and the garden and edible landscape project at Food for Thought, the Sonoma County AIDS Food Bank; is a founding member of Project Africa, which serves people with HIV and AIDS in Africa; and established an organic garden and orchard at Hope Initiatives, a soup kitchen for AIDS orphans in Namibia. Doug is also an authority on contemporary African music and hosts an African music show on KRCB, Sonoma public radio. (www.oaec.org)
