Horticulturist Jan Busco has worked with western native plants for thirty years and is active in the local foods movement. She serves as Vegetation Program lead for the recovery of the Endangered plant, sentry milk-vetch, and for several large native plant restoration and landscape projects at Grand Canyon National Park. She was horticulturist at the Arboretum at Flagstaff for eight years, and nursery manager of Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants in Southern California for seven years. She has written three books on western native plants; Native Plants for high-elevation western gardens (Fulcrum Press 2010, 2004), First Garden: How to get started in Southwestern Gardening (Cool Springs Press 2005) and First Garden: How to get started in California Gardening (pending). Jan lives with her family in Flagstaff, where she grows native plants and edibles in a home nursery, studies Italian and dreams of leading garden tours in Southern Italy and promoting native plant restoration for cultural resource sites throughout the world.