Water Is Life – Mni Wičoni (song for Standing Rock)
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We’re really happy becasue we have had 2 days of rain and hopefully we will have wildflowers in the next week or so.
Wow! well we are having a blizzard her in Montana today (Feb 17, 2018)
are in Arizona, we do a lot of traveling we appreciate being on your show, I think it will tie in that we do on big blend radio
based i Tuscon
eat sleep and work her and then travel a lot because we are quest to cover all 400 National Park units!
Big national parks
gateway communities smaller parks and public
Home in Tucson about to hit the road again!
I’m excited to hear about gardens in National Parks you were telling me about. You’re mother and daughter right?
Tell us a little about yourself.
Just in a nutshell
background is from LA area
Nancy gave birth to me and right after that she gave birth to an organic garden with goats!
Lisa is allergic to just about everything ever invented!
nothing was working
time to get goats!
She could have goat milk and not cow milk and organic veggies!
Do you want to tell us about your first garden experiences? Are you from L.A. too?
Yes, I am
my frist experienc would be with my grandmother who had a victory garden
living infirst one house forever
garden at the back
as soon as we visited her we ended up in the garden
naturally an organic gardner
She never used any sprays
She used beer
Like slugs and stuff. I remember my parents putting beer out.
that’s how it was
that seems to work
spray
loved her beer.
How about you Lisa?
a little different
born about a year and a half old.
Nancy worked for Joy Adamson the movie with the lions
We went to work with Joy in kenya
the two of us went across the ocean
to Africa
be my first gardening experiences
learning how to herd cattle, they were growing vegetables.
Joy got murdered
We lived in a village called Karen after Karen Blitzen
Kenya and Nairobi
just evolved from there. Always had a garden as a young child. big fascinations
My friend Eve went to work with Joy Adamson, but she never got to work with them, she ended up working for the UN for the Environmental Fund I think.
We’re not really gonna talk about your garden because you’ve been traveling so much but your gonna share about your show and travels etc right?
always have to have plants
hummingbirds
We live on the edge of a riparian area
see the monsoon rains
- get into the garden
- either or
- traveling
going to different national parks we realize people should garden we are reclaiming the soil
- beautification
- backyard gardens
- National Parks which are gardens
Siyeh Pass Summer 2016
Glacier National Park is just one big mountain garden!
wild flowers
we will see things like the suer cactus
see the whole cycle happen
some of them you get to see individual gardens
The very first park we went to on the tour was
Cabrillo the lighthouse keepers garden
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when the lighthouse
live in lighthouse keeper
man and his family
on the coast
had his own garden to feed his family
nice coastal garden
san diego
up on a little craggy cliff
veggies are right there
I would live there
intersting to see
not only did they grow crops
artichokes
comfrey
chamomile
medicinal herbs
healed themselves as well
heritage gardens
national historical park
old mission
one Betista
national historic trail
expedition
father of font
from Spain
Mexico
took 200 people on foot from Mexico to
presidio
when our country
1776
first place
over the border
mission
two beck
tucson and the border of Mexico now
crossroads
of culture
native americans
Mexicans
spayed
afro
latinos
culmination of
crops
tortilla made
indian fry bread
tortilla came in from Spain in Mexico
grew things like quince
native plants
old roses
constilleian
Quincy apples
garden in historical parks
root stalk from way back then
t
o see it now is amazing
genetically engineered
when you go to these places
being in the
snag the rangers if were lucky and et them on the side
trail near and dear to my heart
ancestors
200 people went on foot through the desert
Alta California still under Mexico rule
no one died
one person died during childbirth at the beginning of the trail
this was t
when you go into these places
step into gardens
what it was like
this amazing expedition
parks and
demonstrations gardens
one of the oldest state park in AZ
demonstration garden of native plants
up a little bit
techasho peak
poppies in the spring
uma AZ
where the heritage
banks of the CO river where they cross over
east and west wetlands
incredible eye sore
landfill dump
restoration
colorado river
49 agencies
Mexico
az
ca
cashan
49 agenceies
you know how it is
came together restored this area
taken out the invasive
where the land
hummingbird garden
all native plants
AZ and desert plants
birds everywhere
solar garden for people to learn about
amazing place
east wetlands
beaver came back
cleaned up the area
desert
recreate and fun
homeless people
helped a community come back together
beautiful garden
a whole day walking
walking
wildlife
ramadas
picnic tables
playground
largest playground in AZ
interactive playground can do
tourism
place e
actually its interesting native plants
here we are outside
national park
at least do it organic
don’t’ put pastichedes
can affect the waterways
more you go into national parks
pristine they are
everything is abundant
literally
all on one flowers
its amazing
thriving ecosystem
grow
native plants
bees are going to float over
don’t want them taking your chemicals and polluting the park
one of the biggest problems
parks
chemicals
bringing in these seeds
walking around our gardens
other parks and places
your tires can bring it in
invasive species
park ranger on the show the other day
if we go into the caves
without cleaning our shoes
fungus that can affect a certain bat species
Nancy
cactus national monument
Southern
small historic
mining
railroad community
mine might come in
community is left there
beautiful
cactus
you can see this
community mind blowing
so pretty
one of the things I’ve noticed
lived in the states
ca
az
fl
mex
kenya
south Africa
England
all those countries I’ve learned about gardening
home gardener
you do not need these insecticides
if you are planting rows and rows of monoculture
huge rows
yuma
used to be a
crop for peanuts
can’t plant them at all
white fly come in
when you use monoculture farming ideas
home gardener have mostly native plants
same kind of vegetables
wont get the pests
birds take care of it
every country
home lethal
birds and a little bit of beer
community
we were amazed
advocate native plants
certified
national wildlife habitat
grow their own vegetables
community gardens
community farms
works together to eat
national park
you know
that barrier isn’t there
now your entering the park
everyone’s
absolutely
takes a couple of years
just like any plant
once it’s stabilized
withstand a doubt more then a
national wildlife
garden for wildlife
type in your zip code
box stores
urge against using them
box store
you will lose money
someone is into plants
knows those plants and they will
thousands of plants
this is this kind of desert
this one cactus grows everywhere
going into a park
wildlife refuge
national
that’s what you should be growing
native plant society
n
seeds too sometimes easier
make sure it goes with your zip code
other ornamentals not so much
native plant n
there is a difference
naturalized
manages to grow in your area
native plant has always been in your area
settles in quicker
one thing I would like to say
native plants
thinking they do not water
need to become established
6 months to 2 years
will ring home native plants and not water
need to give them water
get to water them less
when you buy them and plant them at the time
cooperate
plant
one thing people don’t have luck with native plants
haven’t watered
definitely go and look at some botanical gardens
native plant display
try and look for those
workshops
national wildlife federation
list of gardens you can go do
space
native plant societies
awesome work
more we connect with hem
insects and birds that help keep your gardens healthy
right kind of insects
birds to help you out
you can buy butterfly bush if you want butterflies in your garden
not natives
doesn’t give them any place to lay eggs
need butterflies to help pollinate
might do one thing
not doing the benefit
give nectar
good insects
provide shelter
places for the young
water
chemicals
rain
birds can go play in a puddle
drink that bird
then it dies
sucks
bumps and weird diseases and thing
more we plant of native plants
less seed we need to put out
really
worried about half of you
wear a lot of bird seed ends up going
ants
take it underground
food source for them
having ants
a lot of ants
bird seed
undergrand
birds need clean water sources
some places have too much water
interesting too
native plants
watch the cycles
what looks dead to us
birds are picking open
old fruit from cactus
pic warthogs of the desert
eat cactus
big bit out of it how they get their water
every body gets a little
we get the beauty
you can still have your garden as well
pollinators
native flowers native plants
good to mix them up
mix your flowers in with your
there’s a lot of alliums that are native plants
theres a wildlife refuge
Buenes ares
good air
here comes the lands
largest grasslands in the area
understanding
the good in the bad
ranch cattle
area that he shouldn’t native plants
certain areas
over abundance
ecosystem got turned off
not native to the country
decimated
117k square acres
riparian areas
ring-tailed cats
mountains lions
bighorn sheep
pronghorn back
story of the
a little bit of water
native plants
burning the old out
mind blowing
park ranges
alliums
plants you can recognize
ancestors of the plants we grow for food
blue dicks
garlic and chives and onions
native americans used to eat them
look at native american gardens
learn so much
of what we can grow
pallet to different plants
get information
storytellers
history has been passed on orally
how people got split up
haircut
moved here and
reclaim their history and heritage
native americans
working together
reclaim their language
and traditions in place for future generations
getting rid of the dead zones
one of the things we didn’t mention
to the success
test your soil
see what kind of soil of you have if it’s missing something
soil around your home
houses that
toxins
your success as a gardener
something that needs to be added to a soil
get your soil tested in different parts
g
get kids in evolved
understand science and nature
everybody needs
nothing like the practical experience
in those places
feel the history
remember this date
every bodies into selfies
photograph a plant or bug
look up the relationship
if they don’t have this one yucca plant
that entire butterfly species
which means this bird species
go out take a photograph of a plant you don’t know
that plant in its natural
habitat
replace a plant with another plant that doesn’t belong there
food or shelter
young
standing rock
absolutely
we actually did
labor day weekend
labor day we ended up doing a show with cody hall
red warrior camp
called in
right after they released the dogs on the people that had found the ancestral remains
you shouldn’t be touching this land
easement area
brought the bull dozers
their camp
interviewed him
oil
being this big black snake
understanding again m the attachment to water
or the ground
they we’ve done a lot of follow
global
cody took her out there
threw the
so many people still growing through it
can’t remember their name right now
garden gossip
want to look at what’s going
home end garden show
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