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UC Davis greenhouse expert Garry Pearson reports back from Iraq

Mon, 12/10/2012 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan
Twice this year, Garry Pearson has gone to Iraq as part of a program to help Iraqis grow more vegetables. He oversees about 160 research greenhouses at UC Davis, and an ag project recruited him as a technical expert. On today’s Davisville he talks about what he saw. Pearson wanted to “see what’s going on [after the U.S. war] ... It’s my own natural curiosity. I know I have technical skills that can be passed on to different people, if it’s presented in the right way. On the ground my experience was just meeting the people everyday, the day-to-day folks. I got the opportunities to be out and to mix.”

He spent his time in Kurdistan, the less-violent northern part of the country, working with Kurds, Shias and Sunnis. Pearson describes both tension and reasons to hope—hotel guards with AK-47s, and a lively democracy. A few years ago he went to Bosnia-Herzegovina. Afghanistan is probably next. “Davis,” he says near the end of the show, “needs to get out and see the rest of the world.”

Mr. Completely debuts in Utah. Thanks, Phish! 7-15-2003

Sun, 12/09/2012 - 7:00pm | Radha

Don't worry, dear phans ... we skipped right through Spread It 'Round. But Mr. Completely? This four-man debut of Trey's solo song is simply dope. Hope this song makes it back in rotation ... Enjoy the show! Set 1: AC/DC Bag > Ya Mar, Theme From the Bottom, Saw It Again, Poor Heart, Two Versions of Me, Secret Smile, Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove Set 2: Mr. Completely -> Low Rider -> Big Black Furry Creature from Mars -> Buried Alive > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars > Ha Ha Ha > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars > Mr. Completely > Spread It 'Round, Walls of the Cave > Golgi Apparatus > Slave to the Traffic Light Encore: Sleeping Monkey
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