Nancy's Bookshelf: In the orchard

By Nancy Wiegman,

Published June 24, 2026 at 11:04 AM PDT

Pamela Geisel Plemmons, a retired professor, specializes in sustainable landscape practices, integrated pest management, and home orchard management.

She also co-authored the publication The Home Orchard: Growing Your Own Deciduous Fruit and Nut Trees.

Episode #819

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Nancy Wiegman

Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.

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Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.

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