The Rustbelt Prairie (& Abandoned Quest To Spread Feral Paht Seeds)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- In this episode, we turn what was initially a quest to spread a few dozen Paht Seeds in a degraded rustbelt area - an assessment based on a few individuals of feral Paht that we saw at the same site five years ago - into a discovery of what is now a very robust prairie restoration next to a railroad yard and neighborhood. The Paht Seeds didn't end up getting sown, but we did end up finding a host of cool Illinois prairie plants, including Vernonia missurica, Desmanthus illinoensis, Elymus canadensis, Liatris spicata, Lobelia cardinalis and many more.
This site is being actively restored and many of the invasive species are in the process of slowly being eradicated, increasing the native diversity and habitat for native insects and vertebrates. It's crazy to think that this prairie is next to a train yard on the south side of Chicago. Kudos to those who are actively restoring it.
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Marian Byrnes, who the park is named after, lived in the adjacent neighborhood called Jeffrey Manor. She, along with her neighbors, saved that prairie (Van Vlissingen Prairie) from becoming a CTA bus barn. She was also instrumental in shutting down a nearby hazardous waste incinerator.
What a hero!
As someone who did invasive plant species removal on the east coast for a few years I finally feel after watching this video it wasn’t just fighting a losing battle, thank you.
Seeing this video pop up is a great joy. My 18year old cat who i grew up with is dying and my gf and I are sitting with him. Need some sort of postiive distraction so thank you 😊
Sincere condolences my friend, it's so hard to lose them. Sending love 💕
RIP Mr. Kitty
May the memories of your beloved companion give you solace in this difficult time. ❤🙏
Sorry about stuff. But I have dyslexia and for a split second, you were dating an 18 year old deceased cat.
No judgement!
Near Dixon Illinois.
Was talking to my mom, and for what ever reason we were talking about hemp.
I made the statement that it grew locally.
Mostly on the edges of corn fields.
That use to be hemp fields.
She said no way, and she had never seen it growing.
Middle of the summer driving down a gravel road.
I spotted some, and decided to grab one so I could show her.
I had to drive through Dixon to get to my parent's.
But the closer I got, the more nervous I got.
Because of the 6 foot hemp plant in my back seat.
So just before I got to town.
I threw it out the window instead.
Then proceeded on.
When I got to my parents.
That's when I realized the plant I threw out.
Had actually wrapped around my antenna, and I ended up driving all the way through Dixon with a 6 foot pot plant hanging off the side of my car.
No good, considering it was 2001
😂
😂😂😂
now there's a tale
OMG! 😱🤣🤣🤣
I'm SO GLAD everything worked out okay lol
Hahaha I definitely thought this story was going nowhere but that was a great twist at the end.
It's funny how his spidey sense for managed habitat continued to go off.
Al Scorch's yuppy impression is a riot 😂😂😂
positively revitalizing
"Graffito" 💀
He’s a genius!
I don’t know, I’d take “oh what a guy“ over yuppie developer any day! I feel like the yuppie developer is going to haunt me in my dreams now 😬
I have liatris spicata ALL OVER my family 40. It didn’t really show up until we burned the place and kept the cattle off. We also got a good bit of young Yucca campestris, penstemon cobaea, Baptisia australis, and Silphium integrifolium.
It is amazing what a burn will do!!!
It's a testament to how homogeneous habitats become when dominated by invasive species that I know all the invasives featured in the video, but almost none of the natives. Chicago's invasive plants are the same as Québec's apparently
Poor snake. I can feel Al's grief. I, too, love snakes. Whenever I see a snake on my property I say, "Hey! It's Sam the snake!" Then I leave it alone.
Thank you. I love our reptilian friends😢
@@KOKO-uu7yd uploaded this just for yall, tiny horned lizard next to my car, also left alone 🤘th-cam.com/video/H21qYe4HGT4/w-d-xo.html
What if it's Jake The Snake?
God bless Al, and a tear for our snake brothers.
If you’re ever in southern Indiana, be sure to stop by Miller Showers Park in Bloomington. It’s a great example of what urban landscaping could be. It’s a major storm drain for the city surrounded by dense prairie plants between two roads. They mow it all down every fall to imitate burning.
My prairie dock is blooming for the first time! Other natives I put in are doing well. May the seed spread far!
When do we get another road trip video with Al?
I need another "red iron ore" moment. I've cried with laughter every time I re watch it.
What video is that from? I want to cry with laughter too!
Joey Pahtseed spreading the goodness.
been spreading paht seeds around southern IL for the last few years, love ya buddy
I think it's beneficial to wildlife. I know birds love the seeds,. I've had cats that I've caught chewing on the leaves of a branch when I was manicuring buds after a harvest. Now I close up the boxes when I walk away to use the restroom. 😂
Al makes these videos even better!
These rustbelt videos are very relatable to my hometown environment. Also, Al Scorch is Cool!
I like the singing👍
I was just photographing Lythrum salicaria yesterday! Fortunately, in a place where it is native; they were planted by a warden for a local nature reserve. Beautiful plant that our insects love
Good afternoon ya legends.
So nice to see you back in the midwest!. I can relate to those because many are in my own yard. Have fun out here. If your ever passing through Toledo let me know. I live in the oak openings region( an historic oak savanna) its home to the most diversity and rare plants in ohio. I could show you around
Love ya Joey! A few years back a local vagrant who I have since dubbed “Jonny Cannabis-seed” left our local biz parking strip planted with some budding buddies. Several months later as the sprouts grew next to the sidewalk, I rescued a few out of curiosity and the impending summer. It turned out they were all females and they all did well in pots in my yard being fertilized and taken care of . I learned a lot about plant health, trimming, and curing. I don’t partake much, but I have you to thank for teaching me about identifying, and suburban chaos. Please come to the Pacific Northwest!
Who is this guy with you 😆 turn the candid camera on him more often 🤣
That be the incomparable Al Scorch.
That's the first nice thing I've ever seen in Gary Indiana. Thanks for sharing!
You're a treasure Al.
We do love dat AL.
Whatta nice surprise to see the natives coming back. Way to go, Chicago
Really nice to see the amount of Milkweed observed! helping out the Monarchs! : )
The Legend of Johnny Appleweed is born
I love this road trip with Al. It’s solid.
I'm so happy yt recommended you to me. Your attitude, your rants, your humour, and education Ah-mazing 👏🏿
i love this channel for the science and commentary, but al's presence is always a highlight
The cicada was a nice catch, love their high-summer droning. I live in an area that does not have periodic cicadas, but saw them while visiting my daughter in Kansas- was a bit overwhelming.
Thanks for the breakdown of Ironweed, always thought it was a thistle!
Living in Southern New England, one would think that invasives would've long ago overtaken native plants but, thankfully, other than the vast marshes of purple loosetrife many miles to the north, and the unfortunate incursion of phragmites, bull briar, plantains, and Chinese bittersweet, we're doing mostly ok with the native species.
Glad you decided not to plant the paht!
Ay! Love your vids and it's always a treat to see Al in the video.
I've managed to establish two good clumps of Lobelia in the damp spot by my porch. They're just the right height to watch the Hummers hitting it. So easy from seed, I do water if we have a dry spell. I must have 10+ Helianthus from self seeding this year. I keep the county from mowing my corner down, so much cool shit if they just don't kill it! Gotta keep the Goldenrod from taking over, it's a bit of a beast. Gfys gents 😊
yooooo midwest babeyyy!!!! Thanks for showing people this stuff Joey. I have worked seasonal habitat restoration jobs the past like 6 years in the central and eastern Lake Erie basin regions and I always get so jazzed seeing people talk about the shit I work with. We have such cool plants and ecosystems in this part of the country that are overlooked and are unfortunately constantly being threatened by the likes of the walmart parking lot and similar predators. I hope more people realize how much cool stuff is just hanging out in the fields and wetlands and forests and stuff!!
I live in the far eastern Lake Erie area, Buffalo, I'm always wandering around old industrial sites, shorelines and creeks checking out the natives and invasives. Habitat restoration would be dream job for me! Or pretty much anything working with plants. I've done a lot of volunteer work for community gardens in the area the last 20 years or so but it's not like being out in natural habitat making a difference for the ecology. Couldn't imagine getting paid for something I'd do for free. I'm sure it has its ups and downs too but you're fortunate. I love the area and this video hit home too.
Al for president. And he can sing at the inaugural ball.
missed Al's spot on commentary , like "That's a mighty thicket" , it's poetic!
I enjoy hearing Illinois voices. My Ma came from Wheaton and Pops came from LaGrange park.
Let's all goto Wisconsin Dells for a vacation, maybe visit Baraboo for some circus acts 😂
I’m actually trying to grow much of what you feature here, including red lobelia, liatris and Asclepias.
I'm always thrilled to see your videos in the Midwest/rust belt because I recognize more of my favorite plant friends. Thanks for sharing the beautiful sights of home.
Al, you find yourself in WI near the "big city", I'll buy ya lunch/a beer/what have ya!
You do a LOT for others, it'll be good if some "others" can do something for you.😊
OH WHAT A GUYYYYYY🎶
It's cool that you're doing some shows in the Midwest. I was out at Elephant Rock state park in Missouri about 75 miles south of St. Louis. I took pictures of some interesting plants I saw but I don't know what they are. I'll have to read some books about native and non native plants in Missouri.
Liatris, aka “Gayfeather”, it’s common name, at least here in Missouri, aka blazing star. You were trying to remember the common name on your podcast recently, I couldn’t believe you forgot it! Who doesn’t need a bit of gayfeather now and again? Little ball-tickler on the prairie!
I have most of those native plants in my backyard. :-) Shrubby St. John's Wort is still on my wish list. RIP lil garter snake.
You are honestly one of my favourite random plant people.
Looks like the Marian R. Byrnes Park and Natural Area. I'm from the Chicago area and it's just a guess. Nice place guys!
Thank you Tony and Al for this episode.
Best wishes.
you gotta look for the dogbane leaf beetle (Chrysochus auratus) on the apocynum cannabium. they're real pretty. 10/10 bug right there
Lobelia cardinalis is one of my favorites where I live
This turned out to be one of your best prairie episode yet!
The editing at 13:15 could teach children, great job brother
Love the Bonus Footage! Great Video!
Shrubby St Johns Wort is native, crazy-popular with the bees, grows rly well, worth looking at for native restoration work
Ratibida pinnata, nice for the bees and then for the goldfinches
I read up on the snail 14:16 (Monacha cartusiana) and discovered sure enough that it was accidentally introduced to the states. Sure has a cozy home, lucky guy. Definitely going to try and get some of these natives around my home. Having a blast transforming my yard patches into more of these stunners thanks to your motivating words. Kind of wished they sprayed the buckthorn too lol. Hoping you give my canna seeds a proper home whether you guys threw em in a yogurt or in an embankment somewhere safe on the South Side. Thanks for sharing this incredible ancient-like landscape with all the plant peeps.
I didn’t label the seeds I planted this year by species, but now I know that I have 2 Asclepias verticillata in pots 🥳
Genius.
Come visit Oregon. So many native plant nurseries.
Hangin with Al all day lucky you !
""SQWASHED EM""😂all jokes aside, R.I.P. Snake
Fucking love Al 🤣
He should be in every CPBBD video!
So lovely to find a site that’s being managed and restored properly. Makes my heart happy.
Love your work. I recently interviewed Dr. Leme of Southern Illinois University over his work with cannabis. I'd personally love to explore bioremediation more using paht, we shall see.
Fuckin Al 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 classic the Revitalization !!!!!!
Sin palabras, muy buen video, hermosas plantas, espectacular sus flores.
You are the kool est dude!
@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt. I’d bet you’d make a terrific herbalist for many reasons ❤😊 Wonderful video as always!!!!
What a great prank! You're either going to get a wicked headache or find some top notch 👌.
Great episode. I was wandering around my wetland property and saw some of that same lobelia. It's stunningly red. The hummingbirds are all over it too. That was a few weeks ago. This weekend I found some verbena I've never seen before, and the eupatorium is is full bloom. Vernonia too but mine is the gigantea variety.
Niiice Lobelia! Ahhhh! I feel better already!
I have a 12x12 space ready for your ideas. There used to be a tree there 25-30 years ago and the ground is sunken in. I have been filling it with mulch for about 12 years so I did not break my ankle walking through the yard. Been watching and writing down ideas of what seeds to scatter.
Good ol' Al! Hope he's doing well and thriving.
At 10:25
That is why these episodes are my favorite!
15:37
Bro that was an ambush bug!
They’re super cool, fairly common but rarely seen… I was hoping Al would get to see that but he was over there geekin on some snails on a reed… that’s good times too, especially after blasting off with “a LOT OF HASH”
Cheers boys
I love this episode, I was waiting for you to find desmanthus illinoensis
4:50 that was beauteeful 😆
“Slag and Glass” …good name for a band, post industrial
Doin gawds work.
I don't do pot. It makes me hungry. I get angry when I'm hungry, and getting hungry makes me angry.
Ikr!
Sometimes I can really enjoy a meal when I smoke but most of the time it makes me less hungry actually
I used to smoke a ton of weed growing up lol, but nowadays this stuff is so damn strong it instantly sends me into panic attacks. Sucks cause I miss it, but I just can't do it anymore.
I've seen it out around a pigshit pond and the hemp was the only thing growing around the edges. It grows all over Kansas.
Aww I will feed you some good food
Who cares about pot. We need to discuss the ANTS. Skip to 22:53 to see ants going nuts over Eupatorium perfoliatum -- this plant also attracts bees and many other insects. Those ants aren't Lasius (wrong gaster shape ... a little too small)... The gasters don't seem pointed enough for Tapinoma. Head shape is wrong for Tetramorium... It's hard to judge the size of their eyes due to the contrast so I'm limited in identifying these ants. Prenolepis imparis is possible. Although, they tend to be more light brown than black... this could just be the lighting. But they do gather on plants like this for farm aphids... though they hate hot weather.
I am STUMPED by these ants. But it was still nice to see so many of them being so busy! Highlight of the video!
I also like when you explain what isn and isn't a flower. I think I almost get it...
Fn awesome, as usual!
I grew up in the O'Fallon, Missouri area and in the 80s we found out about "pot" growing by the railroad tracks not far from our highschool. The plants were on the north side of the tracks. In a 4x4 square inch area there was probably 5 to 7 plants growing in that space. There were plants from telephone pole to telephone pole. We went back and the plants had been brushhogged over. The next year i went back and they weren't there. I believe the county workers applied herbicide there. It was off on hwy 79 by Interstate 70 between St Peters and O'Fallon. About a mile or so north of 70. I'm sure the roads have all changed since the 80s around there. I moved away years ago
Fortunately the north east still has pockets of wildflowers that were logged but never plowed. I know ur not big on woodlands but you should see our spring ephemerals in places that never got plowed. Some incredible species with really interesting evolutionary histories.
Though it may be a bit of over dramatization, I really appreciate your commemoration of the dead snake. Humans undervalue the lives of their fellow travelers on this planet to their own detriment. And compassion is what makes us civilized.
love the lobelia!!!! it was worth the troop
Pot is great for juicing. It's also great as element of kombucha.
two of the coolest guys on the tube. probably a forever fan, the content just kills. thanks fellas!
There's a "new" public park planted near me in Nebraska about a year and a half ago and it was landscaped with prairie plants. Really has grown in this summer. Sure everything is in neat little rows and clumps instead of a naturalistic mix, but I still prefer that to most public landscaping that's more mulch than plant.
Monarda fistulosa tastes amazing! Very similar to to oregano, but a bit stronger flavor. One of the best tasting north American native herbs.
I love your friend!
The area you were looking for the paht reminds me of where teenagers might grow some bagseed plants. They might start them in Styrofoam cups then carry those to the grow location. Other locations I recall kids planting are near abandoned quarries, in the river bottoms, abandoned property, along creeks, etc. Places that look like people never go usually have people through a few to several times a year. You find beer cans and other trash in very secluded or remote places.
Great to see Al join an episode!
My towns been restoring a city park to prairie. They planted some native plums that are fruiting for the first time this year
Just discovered your channel. You guys are great! I volunteer at an organization that is restoring a native habitat in south east Michigan city urban park. Buckthorn and turf grass is the worse
Here in CT, I grew alot of E. serotinum from seed this year for my front yard micro meadow. The seed I got for E. Altissimum never grew even though it was stratified - winter sowed.
Al Scorch is a national treasure
Hemp was grown on BEBE Farms in south Berrien County Michigan still wild out there.
I am in Ontario and liatris spicata is common in proper garden centres (not home depot etc.) where i live. I just ripped out day lilly patch from the previous owner and i am planting another liatris. I have a small garden and have also crammed purple coneflower, rudbeckia, butterfly and milkweed (syriaca i think from around here), monarda and it has been a bumblebee buffet. I saw monarch as well as other butterflies which i havent seen before and FIREFLIES for the first time in a long time. I have spread solidago canadensis seeds around the neighbourhood and they have started coming up. There is a gardening show on cbc radio that emphasizes planting natives and if non-natives, to make sure they are not invasive. So tide may be starting to turn, but if it has, will it turn in time is a different matter.
What kind of grass is mixed in with the lobelia in the wooded area? This vid gave me a great appreciation of Al.
Little Bluestem is dominant
K thanks. My little bluestem would rot if planted by my cardinal flower; didn’t know it could look so healthy in a moist shaded wooded area. 14:14 prolly the difference of undisturbed natural growth vs. my amended soil on top of scraped clay from suburbia.
@@marjieestivill oh sorry I didn't see that first part of your message. The little Bluestem was with the Liatris. There was Elymus canadensis by the Lobelia and whatever else I'm not sure, I didn't look
@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt hey thanks! I need to space some of my cardinal flower and others in the moist area so i think that shorter grass would cover the ground yet help the taller stuff stay packed in and upright. Thanks again.
Back in early 70's I took 50lbs of cannabis seeds to a isolated place in Nebraska that had wild cannabis growing , my three brothers and myself planted the seed by hand in an area that had very good soil , I never went back to area so I couldn't say whether they grew or not