Welcome to episode 208 of Growers Daily!

We cover: dogs and bears and people throughout history (oh my); microplastics in compost and landscape fabric, and Napa cabbage deserves love too.

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My Friend Ayla's Visit: https://youtu.be/I9UbEqX8iK0?si=QAlepNDbdflRRxVh

rails to trails: https://www.railstotrails.org

Bears and dogs article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/montana-grizzly-bears-guard-dogs.html

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Constitution https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/09/the-haudenosaunee-confederacy-and-the-constitution/

Indigenous use of Dogs in North America: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.1142

Dog Colonization: https://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/european-breeds-wiped-out-native-american-dogs.htm

Microplastics and Fabric case study: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2021.739775/full

Compost and Microplastics: https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jeq2.20450

Compst and MPS a review: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590123024018826

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