Dr. Rachel Spaeth

Rachel Spaeth, Ph.D.  has been the Garden Curator at the Luther Burbank Home & Gardens in Santa Rosa, California since 2008.  She has a Ph.D. in Horticulture & Agronomy from UC Davis, focusing on the reconstruction of pedigree records from leaf tissue samples of Burbank’s Plum (Prunus sp.).  She teaches Plant Propagation and Landscape Maintenance at SRJC. In her spare time, she enjoys grafting fruit trees with the Redwood Empire Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers.