episode 019: Jasmine and Silver Maple

05/10/22 • 32 min

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This is not the chocolate episode. Then Max talks about the connection between a flower and family. Steve tells about backyard syrup experiments. The episode closes with a song about jasmine and a train ride in the Swiss mountains.

Show Notes!
Lindt Home of Chocolate
Blog about Indonesian jasmine by Lois
Video about jasmine tea scenting Silver Maple vs Sugar Maple
Matt’s Habitats - DC area foraging walks
How to collect sap and make syrup
Melati Dik Melati
Visuals by Maximilian de Vree

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episode 018: Crape Myrtle and Goosefoot

Robots that sing! Then Shaun plants a tree and Steve eats more weeds. Later, things get avant-garde when Steve creates a song with Shaun and a few robots.
Show Notes!
Daisy Bell
Daisy Bell by an IBM 704 computer
Daisy Bell by HAL 9000 from 2001 a space odyssey
wikipedia on Carl Linnaeus
Lagerstroemia on Wikipedia
Crape Myrtle from Arbor Day Foundation
John Denver Plant a Tree PSA
Lambsquarters wiki
the Eastern Agricultural Complex
Huaozontle, a pre-Hispanic delicacy you must try
Make your own AI music
Listen and Download Daisy II

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Record scratch! Vivaldi! This is a special spring episode of rootbound. Steve, Karla, Anwesha and Sinchan talk about spring and how it applies to plants while gazing at the Matterhorn. They also drink whisky.

Show Notes!
The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons Sonnets
The Matterhorn on Wikipedia
Location of Riffelalp
Tussilago (Coltsfoot) on Wiki
The Difference between Corms, Bulbs, Tubers and Rhizomes
Wikipedia on seed stratification
The Rise of the State Machines
Switzerland offers an unexpected trove of rare whiskies