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BONUS: Lord of the Tree Rings Marathon
Episode 120
What's up, Middle-Earthlings! Casey and I are taking a much-needed break this week, and so we present to you a hilariously massive extended edition e…
9 months ago
Inside Sprout: Joy (Money Tree)
Episode 120
What makes you happy? Is it money? Or maybe it’s the money tree (Pachira aquatica). This famous houseplant is also a forest tree, so why did it becom…
9 months, 1 week ago
Inside Sprout: Sadness (Weeping Cherry)
Episode 119
What makes trees weep? Perhaps the answer lies in the aptly named weeping cherry (Prunus x subhirtella 'Pendula'). Today we talk gravitropism and why…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside Sprout: Anger (Jeffrey Pine)
Episode 118
What makes you angry? Is it the Jeffrey pine (𝘗𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘫𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘺𝘪)? Perhaps it’s the smell, a controversial topic among tree lovers that causes all sorts …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Inside Sprout: Fear (Silver Maple)
Episode 117
Why are we so afraid of the silver maple (Acer saccharinum)? Perhaps because of the risk involved. In today’s episode of Inside Sprout, we discuss tr…
10 months ago
Inside Sprout: Disgust (Black Locust)
Episode 116
Welcome to Inside Sprout, a 5 part mini-series on trees that best embody and illicit our most basic human emotions. Today we start with disgust and t…
10 months, 1 week ago
Ball is Life (Rubber)
Episode 115
Take me out to the ball game… the one where they bounce a solid rubber (Castilla elastica) ball between their hips. Today we take it way back for a …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Little Kid (Balsa)
Episode 114
The lightest wood there is, the balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) is one excited little kid. It grows fast, has ice cream cone flowers, and you can even car…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Chipko Movement (Banj Oak)
Episode 113
In the second part of our eco-feminism series, we discuss the Chipko movement, a practical manifestation of eco-feminist ideologies out of India. Aut…
11 months ago
Parent Earth (Sitka Spruce)
Episode 112
What makes a tree innately "feminine"? We can't explain it, but we can roughly explain eco-feminism, and how it affects our opinions of, and behavior…
11 months, 1 week ago