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Updates, Photo Albums, Etc

Hey all, 

I don't have any travel planned for the next six months, as I'm in the process of writing two books, a process that is both daunting and maddening. As such, I've taken it easy on posting to instagram and making videos (for the most part) for the next month or two. We've been recording voice-overs for Kill Your Lawn season 2, which should be released on EArthX in April (though of course, nobody can watch since the network sold the show to cable. Become proficient in downlo...

Thornscrub Sanctuary Draft Action Plan

Aside from serving as a research station, base of operations and waypoint for botanist and field researchers in the area, we hope to serve as an education center for the endangered plant community that occupies this habitat as well.

The majority of our focus will be on our 37 acre land project. The focus will be on :

- building and establishing trails,
-removing invasive species such as buffelgrass and guinea grass and continuing to maintain their eradication,
-...

Thornscrub Sanctuary Land Project

Attached are some photos from the 40 acre parcel we are moving towards purchasing in March. It has a number of rare plants on it including Asclepias prostrata and Physaria thamnophila. It also has a ton of buffel grass which we will need to remove. I am extremely excited about this, as it gives us an opportunity not just to restore a piece of degraded land (half of it was root-plowed 20 years ago), but it gives us a chance to eventually share this land with others. We've had many hiccups, nam...

Campos Rupestres

The Only Native Agave in South Texas

Growing Cacti from Seed #2

Brazilian Bromeliad Savior

Tell one man in Nova Friburgo, Brazil turned his urban backyard into a bromeliad conservation station.

Cholla S€x Podcast Ad-Free

A great, two hour long conversation about the meanest cactus genus in the West (well, anywhere really), polyploidy and why deserts are so great for studying Botany.

Going to Jail for Botany podcast, Ad-free

This was a fun episode. Tons of good cactus info here, as well explanations of DNA sequencing and cactus taxonomy, clarification about the lumping  of Pelecyphora, etc. 

Texas Prairie Plant Rescue

Leo Mercado podcast ad-free

Arizona's Only Native Palm

Peyote Propagation for the Native American Church

Dallas Plant Rescue Podcast ad-free

Link to October/November Ad-Free Podcasts

Here's a link to a good drive folder where you can download all 8 podcasts from October and November, Ad-free. 

Sorry it's taken me so long to get around to this. Headed to Tucson to film Sonoran Desert plants and a massive cactus growing operation and restoration initiative.

Salvia ballotiflora

New link for Livestream Disaster

Patreon-Only Livestream

Hey everyone, sorry I've been MIA lately from the Patreon. We've been shooting another 4 episodes of season 2 of Kill Your Lawn for the past 16 days straight. We're done Wednesday. 

As a thank you I'm doing a Patreon-Only Livestream tomorrow, Sunday at 8 pm Eastern Time. It'll be done through YouTube via an unlisted link and chat will be enabled so any questions you all have or anything you guys wanna talk about, throw them at me.

Patreon-Only Livestream Tomorrow, Sunday 8PM EST

Tomorrow, Sunday 8 pm EST/ 7 pm Central/5 pm Pacific I'll be hosting a Patreon-only Livestream.

sorry I've been MIA lately.We've been shooting another 4 episodes of season 2 of Kill Your Lawn (our TV show that nobody can watch cause it's on cable ) for the past 16 days straight. As a thank you I'm doing this YouTube Livestream. The link will be posted here at 755 pm EST. Chatll be enabled and you'll be able to ask questions, tell me what you wanna talk about, etc.

Ethnobotany & Weird Plants Ad-Free Podcast

Anthony Basil Rodriguez is an ethnobotanist from the Bronx, New York 

Succulent Trees and Bat-Pollinated Flowers

A Cactus Grows in Brooklyn

Shale Barrens Botany

Herbarium Rants, Brooklyn Cactus Podcast Ad Free

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Floral Scents Podcast Ad-free

A conversation with Rob Rugoso of Cornell University 

Botany of New York City

Pizzo Wholesale Native Nursery

Gerould Wilhelm Podcast Ad-free

Gerry Wilhelm is one of the two authors of Flora of the Chicago Region.

2 Greaseballs and a Side of Ogden

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Paleobotany Podcast Ad-free

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