Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

By Petey MesquiteySociety & Culture Education

Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey episodes

February 27, 2019 The Historic Ol’ Guajolote
I think what I love most about finding all the relics of the past, from old ranch trash, old military…
6 min
February 13, 2019 Amen Anemone
Those are not petals on the flowers, but the sepals. The flower has petaloid sepals!
5 min
February 03, 2019 Tyto alba
And I think I’m gonna start reading more of the field descriptions out loud, which probably means I’ll be birding by myself.
5 min
January 30, 2019 Collared Peccary
The stories speak to its adaptability to different habitats, from urban, to rural, to very wild. Habitats that can range quite a bit in elevation and topography. They are marvelous creatures.
6 min
January 23, 2019 Black Bear in the Juniper Nation
I love the stance of the bear. Look at those feet. The marvelous word plantigrade comes to mind.
5 min
January 19, 2019 A Petey Reminiscence
One day several years ago I sat down and wrote this story about growing up in Kentucky. I still sit…
6 min
January 17, 2019 Slow Moving Moisture
Snow melted and seeps, streams and creeks flowed. The Ol’ Guajolote joined in and that magical riparian corridor had slow moving water meandering through its channels. Slow moving moisture.
5 min
January 06, 2019 Road Across the Grassland
...there is a road across the grasssland...
5 min
January 01, 2019 Simmondsia chinensis
I do love the story of how jojoba’s Latinized name came about and I’m glad I finally got to tell it.
5 min
December 27, 2018 Trip to the Cascabel Fair
One of my favorite forests of chain-fruit cholla- also called jumping cholla – was in the desert on the north end of the Tortolita Mountains.
6 min

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Petey Mesquitey is KXCI’s resident storyteller. Every week since the spring of 1992 Petey has delighted KXCI listeners with slide shows and poems, stories and songs about flora, fauna, and family and…