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Self-help has existed in some form since the dawn of human civilization and has grown into a robust industrial complex. But does self-help really m...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 10
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I hope we all get all of our monsoon fixes this season. One of those for me and maybe you too will be toads calling from puddles.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 04:01
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I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 04:06
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I started my nursery/horticulture career in the spring of 1980 at Desert Trees Nursery northwest of Tucson. It was and still is a wholesale nursery...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:16
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The riparian woodland Ms. Mesquitey and I were hiking in is at around 6,000 ft. in elevation. I think that may be the upper limits of the elf owls'...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:33
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Anyone who lives in groundhog country will have a woodchuck tale or two to tell. Growing up in Kentucky I sure did. At the University of Arizona in...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
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One of the most magical moments of my childhood was when I first dug up potatoes in a garden and we later had some for dinner. I was awe struck! Th...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:59
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Cactus wrens were one of the first Sonoran Desert birds I learned when I arrived in Tucson to go to the University of Arizona. They are such rascal...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:44

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 05:09
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I was reading a Christmas card from some very dear friends and in the hand written portion of the card it mentioned this season as being the “holie...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 04:53
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The genus Artemisia is found in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. W...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 05:04
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I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West Starr Pass in Tucson. The nursery...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 05:12
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So many native plants are ready for some of that monsoonal moisture and I am too. Come on summer rains!

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 04:55
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Apache plume (Fallugia paradoxa) is very common around out little homestead. There are thickets of it all along the banks of the Ol’ Guajolote. It ...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 11:28
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I suppose the thinking is that any wildflowers blooming along the side of the road will beautify that road and who cares what’s in the hydro-seed m...

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 05:09