KILL YOUR LAWN... & MAKE IT THE LAW.
This episode is an interview with Jeff & Janet Crouch, who sued their Maryland HOA in 2019 and ended up changing state law. Legislation that was enacted in 2021 now makes it illegal for HOAs in the st...
16 Okt 20231h 3min
Ethnobotany & Plants You've Never Heard of w/ Anthony Basil Rodriguez
Anthony Basil Rodriguez is an ethnobotanist from the Bronx, New York that has traveled the world studying wild bananas. In this episode we talked about his travels all over the world and other notable...
9 Okt 20232h 4min
Butterflies and Border Walls
Marianna Wright is the director of the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, which provides critical habitat for wildlife in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The National Butterfly Center ...
7 Okt 20231h 47min
Cornell Herbarium, Brooklyn Cactus, VA Buckwheat
This episode consists of a 90 minute rant about the wonders of Cornell University Herbarium (1 million specimens you schmuck), how a cactus came to grow in Brooklyn, Botanizing a filthy industrial cre...
29 Sep 20231h 34min
Floral Scents & Pollination Systems w/ Dr. Rob Rugoso, Cornell University
In this episode with Dr. Rob Rugoso from Cornell University we discuss the chemistry of floral scents, how scent evolves (ie Clarkia breweri), night pollination, flowers that trap their pollinators, f...
27 Sep 20231h 52min
Prairie Rants & the Herbaceous Perennial Habit
A rant about how prairie soils get built, what exactly a "herbaceous perennial" is and why this habit is so relevant and important to remember when talking about the prairie, how important prairie gra...
16 Sep 202357min
Setting Fire to Suburbia w/ Gerould Wilhelm
Gerould Wilhelm is one of the two authors of Flora of the Chicago Region - A Floristic & Ecological Synthesis. In this episode we talk about a number of topics, from prairie hydrology, native American...
13 Sep 20232h 30min
Paleobotany with Fabiany Herrera
Fabiany Herrera is a paleobotanist specializing on a diverse array of time periods and paleofloras, including the Mazon Creek Flora from the Carboniferous when Lycopods were friggin' trees, as well as...
6 Sep 20231h 6min
