Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the woocommerce-jetpack domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/fw6u3/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131

Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the woocommerce domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/fw6u3/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131
E9 – Joey Santore – The Mescaline Garden
Deprecated: preg_match(): Passing null to parameter #2 ($subject) of type string is deprecated in /home/fw6u3/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wishlist-member-x/classes/class-script-translations.php on line 27

E9 – Joey Santore

Joey Santore, Creator of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t..

In this episode Liam interviews Joey Santore of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t. Joey has an impressively broad knowledge of ecology, particularly of desert in south Texas where he lives, which is the home of Peyote and many other special cacti.

This episode has a slightly different flavour – to quote Joey “psychoactives are fucking boring” and mescaline is “shitty”. We wouldn’t phrase it quite the same way, but Joey has an important message – all plants are special and play an important role, even if we don’t understand exactly what they’re up to. Kill your lawn and plant the locals. 

Humans are interwoven in the living fabric of ecology, but we don’t pay attention to plants unless they clearly benefit us somehow. Joey encourages us to pay attention to all local plants, and to spend less time obsessing over foreign species and cultivar groups.

Plants

Duboisia hopwoodii (pituri)

Stylidium graminifolium (trigger plant)

Lophophora williamsii (peyote)

Astrophytum asterias (star cactus)

Banksia species

Corypantha macromeris

Echinocereus species

Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood)

Sequoia sempervirens (coast redwood)