Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

To me it is always a part of muggy monsoon days and magical the way it appears out of nowhere on the land that surrounds our place near the banks of the ol’ Guajolote.

But listen, the Emory oak acorn is quite sweet and ready to eat when ripe and falling from the tree and so why wouldn’t you gather as many as you could to eat immediately or dry to use in stews or for making acorn meal for brea

Here are photos of some of the plants I was jabbering about: Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), esperanza or Arizona yellow…

Sometimes native plant nurseries will have this euphorb in stock, so it’s well worth asking your favorite nursery person if they grow it....what am I thinking?...I think we'll start growing this cool plant at Spadefoot! Go native my friends.

I wrote this song about Lycium fremontii when I was managing the native plant nursery of Desert Survivors on West…

The little rant at the beginning of this show was spontaneous and was prompted by the trial of Scott Warren,…

I revealed most of my personal chicken history in this show. It is an ongoing saga, though I am much…

I know that being in the moment or being here now is important, but I confess to spending a lot of time wanting to be there now and I’ll be happy to be here now once I get there now or very soon.

Apacheria plume as a common name won’t get any traction. I thought it would be cool to have the plant named for a region, but there is already a plant in the Chiricahua Mtns called Apacheria chiricahuensis, so dumb idea Petey and Apache plume it is!

Oh my goodness, there are beetles, bees and moths that visit the open flowers of Calylophus harwegii from late afternoon…