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Welcome to "The Amateur Naturalist".

Website:  https://theamateurnaturalist.buzzsprout.com/2032491

Your host is Tommy Fowler.  I have a biology degree from The University of Kentucky and a high passion for the outdoors.

I have been in retail management for many years, and I am currently a Human Resources Senior Field Trainer.  In this role, I teach, train, coach and develop many associates to be future leaders with our awesome company.  In this position, I speak very often one-on-one and in large meetings to associates teaching many aspects.

With my love of the outdoors and my speaking skill set, I want to talk about and hopefully educate people on nature, wild animals, and plants.

There are some ways that you can help me:

• Please hit “download “ on each of my episodes
• Please hit Follow 
• please leave this podcast a review
• please give me a rating of 5 stars (this will help me grow)
• if you would like to donate monetarily, it would help me a lot to acquire the technology tools to do this podcast
• please tell 1-2 of your friends and family about the podcast

This is Episode #2 of Season #1 and today's podcast is about "The American Paw Paw Tree".

In this episode we will discuss these topics about the Paw Paw Tree:

• Genus/Species name
• description of the tree, the leaves, the flowers and the fruit
• how people eat the fruit
• why it is so hard to grow the tree agriculturally for the market
• animals and butterflies that eat the fruit
• Ohio Paw Paw Festival
• Tiny bit of history

Thank you so very much for listening today and please give me a rating of 5 stars.

The short music intro and outro is:
"Hickory Hollow" by Dan Lebowitz.  I love his music and thanks Dan!

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Welcome to "The Amateur Naturalist".

Your host is Tommy Fowler.  I have a biology degree from The University of Kentucky and a high passion for the outdoors.

I have been in retail management for many years, and I am currently a Human Resources Senior Field Trainer.  In this role, I teach, train, coach and develop many associates to be future leaders with our awesome company.  In this position, I speak very often one-on-one and in large meetings to associates teaching many aspects.

With my love of the outdoors and my speaking skill set, I want to talk about and hopefully educate people on nature, wild animals, and plants.

There are some ways that you can help me:

• Please hit “download” on each of my episodes
• Please hit Follow
• please leave this podcast a review
• please give me a rating of 5 stars (this will help me grow)
• if you would like to donate monetarily, it would help me a lot to acquire the technology tools to do this podcast
• please tell 1-2 of your friends and family about the podcast

This is Episode #1 of Season #1 and today's podcast is about "The Eastern Box Turtle".

In this episode we will discuss these topics about the Eastern Box Turtle:

• Genus/Species name
• what they eat
• where they live
• how to differentiate males from females
• why they are declining rapidly in population

Thank you so very much for listening today and please give me a rating of 5 stars.

The short music intro and outro is:
"Hickory Hollow" by Dan Lebowitz.  I love his music and thanks Dan!

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Welcome to "The Amateur Naturalist" podcast.
Your host is Tommy Fowler, and I am the Amateur Naturalist. 

In this short episode we have the trailer to kick off Season #1.  

We will discuss wild plants and wild animals and pick a different species in each episode.

Please hit Follow 
Please hit “download” on each of my episodes Please tell 1-2 friends or family and I would truly appreciate it if you can give me a rating of 5 stars and a review.  

Thanks...I am new to this, but I hope to educate and provide some great info.

Have a great day and thank you so very much for listening.