I’d give a kidney (not mine, someone else’s) for a tour date in Maine someday. There’s a big like-minded community here trying to restore the damage from logging and industry.
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Please do an East Coast tour! The masses of Philadelphia and Jersey need to hear your message of lawn killing and native plant propagation. Its bad out here man.
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Tour planning suggestion: you should hit up the universities and local preserves, to see if they want to be venues and flesh out several regional tours from that. for example I'm pretty sure Albany's Pinebush Preserve in Albany NY would host something like that, and so probably would Thatcher Park, in Altamont NY, both of them have both indoor and outdoor spaces. probably it you'd get larger audiences if you could get Allan on the tour with you, and if possible a third speaker from another field of study, birds maybe, or astronomy I actually just saw a new story recently about a woman fighting compliance fines from her city because of complaints from her neighbors about her "unkempt" lawn which had been of course dug up and replanted with endemics. part of the problem is that it did kind of look messy, which I know is ultimately the idea, however if you're living in suburban hell ,you're not going to win over the Joneses with something that looks like a landscaper has never touched it. so I think a better strategy is to path it up and plant in a planned way... make sure you complement colors and textures, plan for flower timing. there's a house near me that does this and it just looks amazing, not quite Better Homes & Gardens level, but definitely artfully thought out and with all local endemics
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Someone on local "nextdoor" (mostly useful for lost pets) was feeling really grouchy because here in southwestern Alameda County, some people don't water their lawns, don't they know the effect that has on the people all around them? When they let the Bermuda grass go brown? Oh my god the horror. I rarely speak up there but I had a few words for him about biodiversity wastelands and effective water use.
2 months ago (edited) | 17
Your work is so valuable! Thank you for trying to wake people up!!!💚
2 months ago | 18
come to the Bay Area! there's tons of interest in native plants recently!
2 months ago | 5
Come over to the UK too - we’ll love you here and need your passion and energy to get us going !!
1 month ago | 0
That sounds really interesting, especially the part about the disproving people. Would appreciate it if you released an online version later down the line.
2 months ago | 5
Ahhh I love that you’re going on tour!! Love your work man! Please come to Colorado 😊🙏
2 months ago | 2
Aw man. The hideout! I haven’t lived in Chicago since 2002. Miss that place. Wish I could be there. I’ll be on the lookout for LA dates. ¡ORALE!
2 months ago | 6
I would love to see you, but I cannot afford to travel to any of your scheduled cities. Please come to Los Angeles sometime! Thanks!
1 month ago | 1
Please come back to Australia mate 🦘🌏 👇🏼 Loved seeing the stuff you did here and in NZ. Thanks for all your wo
2 months ago | 10
Come on up to PNW Canada. Gulf island tour. Many rare and unique plant members of the strange and weird community of geological anomalous ecosystems.
2 months ago | 8
The way I thought I’d see Harrisburg PA on that list. Good luck out there Tony. Come find hen of the woods in PA soon
2 months ago | 5
Hell yeah, see you in Saint Paul! We're full of really dope native gardens, especially in Seward and Longfellow across the river in Minneapolis / also worth checking out Bruce Vento Trail and Indian Mounds Park in STP for cool history and native plants
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Oh my gosh come to Spokane! We have an entire city program that supports the native plant, drought resistant movement
2 months ago | 4
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't is going on tour in September!
I'll be giving a presentation on lawn killing, horticultural atrocities, modern American landscaping's disconnection from biological reality, how to establish native plant gardens on the cheap, how to maintain them once established, how to get disproving members of the square community and lawn cult off your back, what ecological succession is and how lawn killing is the first step in restoring pieces of the living machine, and more. It's like a blend of aggressive plant science education & ecological appreciation, filled with gesticulations, mild profanity, and verbal jabs thrown at wholesome polished stiffs and genteels. There'll be a Q and A at the end and we'll have plenty of merch for sale.
Da Church of Da Living World Tour dates can be viewed at www.crimepaysbbutbotanydoesnt.com.
Or at : www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/midwest-tour-sep-…
We're playing Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul, Omaha, Lincoln, Kansas City, Quad Cities and potentially Oklahoma City.
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