This is our favourite episode to date! On part one of this two-part episode we travel across continents and centuries to explore the history of apples—wild and grafted—of New York City. I am joined by Tony Sclafani, Chief Communications Officer

Environmental Diaries: Julia Sweig on Lady Bird

Sep 30th, 2021 22m 26s

While listening to her husband's Great Society speech in 1964, Lady Bird Johnson found her mission. The following year, and during a turbulent time of race riots in America, speaking at the National Council of State Garden Clubs, and the Ameri

Kelp, Forests Underwater

Aug 25th, 2021 27m 54s

Unlike the kelp forests of Chile, and South Africa’s Cape Peninsula, which are mostly stable, all of the kelp forests of the northern hemisphere are rapidly declining. Off the coast of California, kelp forests have declined more than 95%, with

Swimming in Nature

Jul 30th, 2021 21m 54s

Each year about 31% of the US population over the age of 16, swim in oceans, lakes and rivers.Yet, despite such low percentage, a quintessential image of an American summer is children swimming and playing in a lake. In fact, the top swim city

Swimming in Nature

Jul 30th, 2021 25m 6s

Botany (Music)

Jun 14th, 2021 20m 26s

Botany in Music.We talk to Texas-based music producer Spencer Stephenson about his band Botany. Stephenson was inspired to name his band after his wanderings through Fort Worth’s botanical garden in 2009.Botany is part abstract hip hop and pa

Botany (Music)

Jun 11th, 2021 20m 27s

May Flowers

May 9th, 2021 13m 59s

Botany in ArtWhy are flowers a cliché of femininity in art, when so many of them have both female and male reproductive organs? Today, we talk with Sixtine Dubly, a Paris-based journalist, author and curator, who focuses on the evolving use of

Maasai Adventures in Botany

Apr 6th, 2021 17m 58s

Botany in Safaris: Part IIAs part two of our episodes about traveling in the Mara, I am talking with Fred Ronko, a Maasai naturalist from Lemek—a village in the northern, greater Maasai Mara. For decades, Fred has been guiding photographers an

Search for Birds & Flowers, Find Lions

Mar 23rd, 2021 43m 39s

Botany in Safaris: Part IGreat discussion with Nicky Fitzgerald, owner of Angama Mara a safari lodge perched on the edge of the Rift Valley overlooking the Mara Triangle in the south of Kenya. Nicky’s experience in the safari world is unparall

Come Be Barefoot in Hawaii

Jan 29th, 2021 34m 54s

Botany in ArchitectureThe Hawaiian way of living mostly in nature, and in airy homes has attracted thousands of families who have relocated from the Continental US since the pandemic started. Right before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the tourism

...And Trees Gave Us Posters

Dec 2nd, 2020 18m 11s

Botany in CommunicationWe wouldn’t have posters without paper, and we wouldn’t have paper without trees. Posters were one the earliest forms of advertisement, and they are to this day the most cost-effective form of promotion. But we also buy

Winterise, with Dr. Meredith Ruden

Nov 19th, 2020 22m 23s

Botany in PsychologyIn 2015, 55% of the World’s population lived in urban centers, a number that will increase to 68% by 2050, according to the UN. Today, half of the World’s urban population lives in cities with more than 500,000 inhabitants,

Introducing: PALOOLA

Nov 10th, 2020 2m 18s

My name is Paula de la Cruz, or PALOOLA—to some of my friends. I explore the intersections between art and botany, but also how we incorporate the natural world into our daily lives, especially our urban lives. In my new podcast, PALOOLA, I wil

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