HeyJaredPlant Connection: A Plant Podcast to Reconnect You With Nature, One Plant At A Time
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Sharp Boundaries: The Honey Locust (opens the original)
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Honey locusts combine menacingly long thorns with sweet fruit and medicinal bark, a wise example of offering our gifts to the world while maintaining healthy boundaries to protect ourselves. People have been enjoying the wisdom of this relationship in myriad ways for centuries. In This Episode George Washington’s honey locust hedge The sweet pulp of the seed pods Thorns have their uses The thornless variety What we can learn from this wise tree If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe to Plan
Keeper of Memory: The Beech Tree (opens the original)
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Beech trees have been recording human history for centuries, from Daniel Boone's famous "bar tree" carving in 1760 to family names etched above a mountain cemetery. In this episode, we explore the American beech ( Fagus grandifolia ) and its European cousin ( Fagus sylvatica ), tracing the tree's ties to storytelling, food, medicine, and craftsmanship. In This Episode Daniel Boone’s bear tree A family tradition around a beech tree Arborglyphs The beech tree and the written word A forgotten food
Jewelweed: A Friend in Need (opens the original)
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Do you have a friend who is there for you when you are in pain? I’d argue that jewelweed symbolizes that relationship. In this episode, we look at jewelweed (Impatiens capensis), a plant you embodies the old maxim that the cure is found near the problem. In This Episode A cure for skin irritations like poison ivy and insect bites The childhood joy of touch me not seeds What jewelweed has to teach us Growing jewelweed If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe to Plant Connection on your favorit
A Tree of Protection and Thin Places: The Juniper (opens the original)
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From liquid courage on the battlefield to cemetery meditation spots, this episode traces the many lives of one small, tenacious tree. In This Episode We start with a story from the Thirty Years' War, where Dutch soldiers reportedly sipped genever, a juniper flavored liqueur, before battle, possibly giving rise to the phrase "Dutch courage." From there, the episode follows juniper across centuries and continents: The genever connection — how this juniper spirit became the ancestor of gin, and why
A Sting that Heals: Learning from Stinging Nettle (opens the original)
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What if the cure for a paralyzed arm was... more pain? In this episode, we dig into the strange 1821 case of a young woman treated for paralysis with urtification (deliberate flogging with stinging nettle) and use it as a doorway into everything nettle has meant to humans across history: medicine, food, fiber, folklore, and a surprising lesson about boundaries and reciprocity with nature. In This Episode A 19th-century medical mystery — Surgeon's assistant John Piper treats a young woman's five-
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