My Favorite Trees

Ep. 100-The Rest of My Favorite Trees

Send a text In the final episode of this podcast, I take you through a medley of trees I wanted to make sure got some airtime before the very end. Some of these are topi

Q&A 2

Send a text Before the podcast reaches its conclusion, I wanted to make sure listeners had a chance to be involved with what I end up talking about. Today, I answer ques

Ep. 99-The Elderberry

Send a text For the final topic episode of My Favorite Trees, we take one last look at the Celtic Ogham Tree Calendar. All the way at the end is a large shrub lauded for

Ep. 98-The Spruce Revisited

Send a text For quite some time now, I've been wanting to go back and re-record my Sitka Spruce episode and add more stories I've learned since living in Alask

Ep. 97-The Sacred Trees of Kiso

Send a text I teased the idea of this episode a few months ago when I covered the Arborvitae, mentioning that the Japanese Arborvitae belonged to a group of species held

Ep. 96-The Mulberry

Send a text Many children around the world grow up singing the nursery rhyme, "Here we go 'round the Mulberry bush." But what is a Mulberry bush? And have you ever

Ep. 95-The Tupelo (ft. Doug Still)

Send a text On this special field trip of an episode, I join arborist and host of the podcast, "This Old Tree," Doug Still on a hike through some Tupelo groves on Cape C

Ep. 94-The Myrtle

Send a text The Myrtle is a small Mediterranean tree with significance tied to just about every culture of that region--due in large part to how fragrant the plant is. I

Ep. 93-Forester Spotlight: Richard St. Barbe Baker

Send a text Happy New Year, tree fans! For the first episode of 2024, I present to you another story of a historical figure that helped reshape our modern relationship w

Ep. 92-The Fir

Send a text While there are many holidays that coincide with the Winter season, there are few that involve traditions I love so much as the Christmas Tree. And while the

Ep. 91-The Arborvitae

Send a text Depending on where you live, you may know this tree better as Cedar. There's the Northern White-Cedar, the Western Redcedar, and a few others. But these

Ep. 90-The African Marula

Send a text On this rare trip to the African continent, we look at a keystone savanna species: the Marula. These trees reflect the movement of the great Bantu Migration,

Ep. 89-The Pinyon Pine

Send a text Of the many Pine species in the world, only a few yield seeds that we know as Pine Nuts. That's right, we're not done with nuts quite yet. In the U

Ep. 88-The Macadamia Tree

Send a text For the conclusion of this second Nut Tree Miniseries, I present you with the Macadamia Nut. An exotic snack with an absurdly hard shell that many associate

Ep. 87-The Pistachio Tree

Send a text The Pistachio is considered the most successful plant introduction to the United States in the 20th century. Up until then, they were a staple part of a diet

Ep.86-The Cashew Tree

Send a text Welcome to the start of my second Nut Trees miniseries! Last year, I covered in sequence the trees that give us Almonds, Walnuts, and Pecans--but I've r

Ep. 85-The Pawpaw

Send a text The Pawpaw tree is a mysterious one, somehow being both my most requested topic and one many are likely to not have heard of. This tree species produces the

Ep. 84-Forester Spotlight: Gifford Pinchot

Send a text This is the first of a new episode type I'll be sprinkling into the mix, where I dive into the life of notable individuals who helped shape the professi

Ep. 83-The Peruvian Peppertree

Send a text Admittedly, I was drawn to this tree because I assumed it served as the inspiration for the Peruvian Puff Pepper that was mentioned in Season 3, Episode 2 of

Ep. 82-The Candlenut

Send a text Hawaii's upcoming Statehood Day has historically been a controversial holiday for its people. With this in mind, I have chosen this occasion to take a c