Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey

By Petey MesquiteySociety & Culture Education

Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey episodes

January 06, 2014 I am Andropogon
Petey jabbers on and on about some native bunch grasses. Fall is certainly the time to get out and visit…
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December 20, 2013 Hear Heart Beating
A few days of traipsing and hunting deer in the hills and all Petey can talk about is hearing his…
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December 09, 2013 Nature Cures
Petey seems to think that traipsing around in the wild borderlands of southeastern Arizona is good for children and…
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December 02, 2013 Stinging Serpent
Peter jabbers about cool winged grasshoppers and a plant called Stinging Serpent. Cevallia sinuata or Stinging Serpent is found…
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December 02, 2013 Darkness Comes Too Quickly
Petey laments the loss of light. Rubber Rabbitbrush is a wonderful native shrub of the uplands. The golden yellow…
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November 25, 2013 Casa de Desert Broom
Petey thinks folks should be planting Desert Broom in pollinator gardens. What?! Explain yourself Petey. Bacharris sarothroides is truly hated…
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November 12, 2013 Desert Dreamscapes
Petey has wild dreams if he stays in bed too long in the morning. Get up Petey! Amoreuxia palmatifida…
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November 05, 2013 Passiflora mexicana
Mister Mesquitey tip toes out of work and gets in some botanizing on a micro-vacation in the Dragoon Mountains. Mexican…
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October 30, 2013 The Seasons of Autumn
I have said it ad nauseam, but I just love autumn and I love it because in southeastern Arizona it…
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October 28, 2013 Dusty Calligraphy
Crotalaria pumila or Rattle Box is a sweet little legume found out in the grassland and up slope as well.…
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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…