Adam Haritan from Learn Your Land (Ad-Free)
Added 2025-08-26 17:24:43 +0000 UTCThis episode is a conversation with Adam Haritan from the youtube channel Learn Your Land, which covres a diverse variety of topics related to the ecology of Eastern North American Forests - Fungi, Plants, Insects, & more. In this episode we talk about how fire suppression has caused an explosion in tick populations, along with a multitude of other factors. We also discuss medicinal mushrooms of Eastern North America, surviving stands of American Chestnuts, the importance of geology, and how Paw Paw trees might be neurotoxic. We also talk about how humans having a connection to (and knowledge of) the land that they live on is a matter of existential health, almost more so than anything else.
Adam's been producing the Learn Your Land youtube channel for ten years and has an extensive library of videos about a diversity of topics, and unlike me, he doesn't curse like a madman so his videos are appropriate for all ages. Please check the youtube (especially the tick episode!) and go down a wormhole. Also check out www.learnyourland.com for more info on what he does, a link to his onlince courses, and a list of the videos he's done.
Comments
I watch your videos with my kids around. Idk if it makes me a bad parent or not, but I don't believe in shielding my kids from too much. There certainly are things to shield them from, but swearing isn't it. The way I see it, they're likely going to hear it and much worse throughout their lives, and I would feel like I'm doing them a disservice if I raise them to be completely shocked or offended by swearing. George Carlin had the right philosophy about it. It's okay to swear, but you need to know your audience.
Tony
2025-09-05 22:58:40 +0000 UTCIf I had my own kids, I doubt I'd think twice about letting them watch your videos. Kids don't always need things to be sanitized or dumbed down. What I have instead, though, is a super-smart and curious neighbour kid who will knock on my door to ask questions about the plants in my yard. I know he's watching plant videos on YouTube. I haven't dared to directly suggest your channel to him (enough neighbours already hate us), but if he doesn't find you himself, or hasn't already Googled my t-shirt, you're still educating kids through an intermediary over here. But I'm gonna bet that the kids are already watching.
Candice
2025-09-03 07:00:38 +0000 UTCI second that Hell Yeahπ€π½
Spooner
2025-08-27 20:20:26 +0000 UTCWhen I come back from the woods I put clothes in the washer right away and also take a shower and scrub myself down especially in tick prone areas. Never got Lime disease yet. Fortunately I don't actually live in an area with ticks. This guy is both knowledgeable and a great communicator. But tbh, I only want to learn what I need at the moment. No interest in learning for leaning's sake. To traumatized by school is my excuse. Or perhaps because just I'm a very slow learner. For example, tree identification. Simply not going to happen for me at any scale, but I enjoy knowing a few trees and I remember who taught me each one and when. I remember watching his American Chestnut video. Very exciting. I wasn't aware he had taken a break. I'll make sure I'm subscribed.
Edward Felsenthal
2025-08-27 03:28:07 +0000 UTC
