click this link and download them all before it gets taken down...
Thanks to D for uploading these. This link contains the entirety of Season 2. As many of you know, the show that Al and I made is nearly impossible to watch because EarthX (the failed tv network) sold it to cable...a show with a built-in audience...
2025-11-18 03:28:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The Andropogon diversity is outta control in this episode on Kissimmee Prairie in Central Florida. We also see the pine lily, Lilium catesbaei, blooming it's incredible blooms in the middle of this hot, fire-dependent sand prairie. Later, we ponder why the hell so many plants from central and south Florida seem to converge on...
2025-11-16 08:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
in this video we start off at lower elevations in the Mojave Desert, scoping out smoke bush (Psorothamnus spinosus) then slowly ascend past the 80,000 year old Amboy Crater stopping to check out some halophytes along the way. The video ends at the junction of limestone and igneous rock, where a buckwheat species+genus Eriogon...
2025-11-16 08:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostReed Booth and his assistant Hosh are killer bee removal specialists based out of Bisbee, Arizona. In this episode we talk about the ferocity of the scutellata hybrid (aka "killer bees"), the fact that this hybrid doesn't occur in nature ANYWHERE, why most feral honeybee colonies end up being dominated or taken over...
2025-11-12 18:23:22 +0000 UTC View PostKrystle Hickman is a biologist, native bee researcher, and conservationist from Los Angeles, California and author of the book "The ABCs of California's Native Bees".
In this 2-hour conversation we talk about how to identify bees to genus, different groups of native bees (IE longhorn bees, cactus bees, leaf cutter bees...
2025-11-11 19:13:34 +0000 UTC View PostA 2 hour conversation with Alexis Nicole Nelson aka Black Forager about connecting with the living world, ethnobotany, lawn-killing, native plants, hopefulness and humility, using native plants for fibers, and a sh*t ton more.
2025-11-06 18:51:53 +0000 UTC View PostCyrus Harp is an ethnobotanist, ethnobiologist and author based out of Cetral Texas. In this episode we talk about a number of different plant species, chipping chert, using Agave & Yucca for fiber, Agarita (Berberis trifoliolata) as dye, Mescal Beans and the history of pre-European human settlement and botany in...
2025-10-28 21:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostEthan Tapper is a forester, author and ecologist out of Vermont, USA. He advocates for a practice called "Ecological Forestry", as opposed to the short-term-gain/long-term-loss management style that has seemingly dominated the lumber industry for decades (centuries). He is the author of a book called "How to Love a Forest", ...
2025-10-27 19:15:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Dicerandra modesta is the focus of this episode. it is an extremely rare and critically endangered species only known from this single site in Polk County Florida, where coincidentally there are plans to try to build another dreaded toll road.
Fire-suppression, land clearance and invasive species are the three ma...
2025-10-25 00:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Split Oak Forest near Orlando is on the chopping block to have a toll road built through the middle of it due to some sleaze bag developers that need a way to shuttle human cattle between the depressing cul-de-sac community they built and the airport. As a result, the entirety of this remaining crumb of habitat could one day ...
2025-10-18 13:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we return to Missouri Botanical Garden to hang out with Peter Bernhardt in the herbarium and nit-pick herbarium Labels. Then we get a brief look at a greenhouse full of horticultural atrocities, which is then remedied by a glance at some cool Euphorbia from the Horn of Africa and how to grow Cheilanthoid Ferns...
2025-10-10 00:50:36 +0000 UTC View PostA live recording of the KYL show at the Hideout, September 14th, 2025.
2025-10-09 20:59:41 +0000 UTC View PostRants about KILL YOUR LAWN tour in the Midwest, River Geography, Hemp Farms in Wisconsin, Prairies, Bison, upset affluent suburban ladies in St Paul, horticultural atrocities, Lincoln vs Omaha Nebraska, Feral Paht and more.
Thanks to the all the venues that put us up and thanks to everyone who came out for the shows/pr...
The Loess Hills are deposits of wind-blown "glacial flour" hills that line the Little Sioux and Missouri River near the Iowa/South Dakota border. In this episode we take a look at the bison herd on the Broken Kettle Grasslands, the ocean of Indiangrass (Sorghastrum nutans) and Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii 2025-09-23 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
in this episode we follow up with a lawn that was originally killed in 2023, and what we find is a dense assortment of highly diverse prairie plants thriving and producing metric fck tons of seed.
The homeowner does very little maintenance (which is kind of the point), but even a small amount of trimming with so...
2025-09-23 15:56:58 +0000 UTC View PostAd-free version of today's podcast episode.
2025-09-21 03:34:57 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode consists of a 20 minute visit to a hemp farm in Central Wisconsin.
2025-09-20 23:48:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I did four videos on this habitat but each video highlights different species, some of which are almost impossible to find any information about online, such as Malacomeles paniculata and Abies vejarii, both of which are featured here.
2025-09-17 05:25:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We combine two different episodes in one here. The first one takes us to the higher elevations of southwestern Utah in Iron County to check out Cedar Breaks National monument and the bristlecone pines. We see Physaria hitchcockii growing matted as hell on the edge of a steep cliff at 10,000' elevation. Then we expound on how ...
2025-09-16 17:31:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Salvia darcyi has become common and cultivation due to how easy it is to root cuttings of Salvia and to the fact that plants are self fertile, yet no photos of it exist in habitat. Imagine how stoked I was to come across growing in a remote limestone canyon of the Sierra Madre in Nuevo León at 6,000 feet (1800 meters) with p...
2025-09-13 00:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a folder full of textbooks that you should find immediately useful as well as useful for the next 10 years. If you have questions about any of the material please comment below or message me directly.
2025-09-09 01:38:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhy is there such a strong correlation between invasion biology denial, anthropocentrism, ecological illiteracy and permaculture? How can permaculture move forward while at the same time acknowledging the functionality of native plant ecosystems and why the designation of "native" is not some frivolous, arbitrary, or puritani...
2025-09-05 20:52:15 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we slowly ascend to the 7,000 foot elevation Oak Forests of Nuevo Leon. Presenting abundant fungal diversity and draped in Spanish moss, these calm peaceful oak forests feel like going back in time 100 years, and the floristic diversity that they hold is almost unimaginable. Agave montana, Quercus mexicana, Ta...
2025-09-05 14:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostIn this episode (after a 30 minute societal rant) we talk about Dioon edule and cycads of the foothills of the Sierra Madre, why hemiparasitic members of the paintbrush family frequently have red leaves, Mexican Oak Diversity, Tillandsia usneoides in Oak woodlands, Calochortus marcellae, Malacomeles denticul...
2025-09-03 20:28:34 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we chase a number of species, including a blue staining new species of bolete that associates with blue spruce at 9000 ft in the mountains outside of Ruidoso New Mexico. We we also see numerous cases of moth pollination as well as a flock of angry Rufus hummingbirds.
2025-09-02 05:24:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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,...
2025-08-26 17:24:43 +0000 UTC View PostToday's episode consists of rants about compensation point, idiotic spelling mistakes, C3 and C4 photosynthesis, why nighttime temperatures prevent growing some plants in some areas, public land grab in Florida by sleazebag developers embedded in state government, Kill Your Lawn Tour 2025, calcareous shale exposures of ...
2025-08-20 19:14:55 +0000 UTC View Post
VeIn this episode we check out the Capitan Range of Lincoln County, New Mexico, documenting the flora as we ascend to an elevation of 9200' fe
In this episode we check out the Capitan Range of Lincoln County, New Mexico, documenting the flora as we ascend to an elevation of 9200' feet where we find Monotropa hypopitys a...
2025-08-16 23:38:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe first 20 minutes (as read by me) of my book Concrete Botany, due out for publication in April and available now for pre-order at : https://geni.us/ConcreteBotany
2025-08-13 17:48:33 +0000 UTC View Post
