Kill Your Lawn Recap
Very little botany-related content in this session with Al Scorch during an interim during the shooting of Kill Your Lawn Season 2 in College Park, Maryland
22 Loka 20231h 5min
Native Bee Ecology with Sam Droege
Sam Droege is a scientist who studies bees and bee behavior based out of Maryland. In this episode we talk bee ecology, how to attract them to your yard, their nesting and habitat requirements, why th...
18 Loka 20232h
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 Loka 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 Loka 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 Loka 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 Syys 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 Syys 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 Syys 202357min
