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100 Episodes of Hort Culture: Reflections on the Stories of Plants and People So Far
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Celebrate 100 episodes of the Hort Culture Podcast with us! We'll journey through our favorite moments, highlight some of the most impactful conversations, and share our gratitude for our amazing community of listeners.
Questions/Comments/Feedback/Suggestions for Topics: hortculturepodcast@l.uky.edu
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Celebrating 100 Episodes
00:00:19
Alexis
100th episode. I wish I had like some really cool things to play there, but you got my version of that.
00:00:21
Brett
one hundred what what what one hundred like a jock like a DJ yeah crazy Ira
00:00:21
Plant People
A lot of energy.
00:00:28
Jessica
Yeah, I knew what you were doing. Yeah.
00:00:30
Plant People
You were your own soundboard. I appreciate that.
00:00:32
Alexis
but p
00:00:32
Plant People
Yeah, you were the you were the soundboard. I kind of got a parks and rec vibe a little bit to it there when you were making your own soundboard.
00:00:37
Jessica
Oh yeah, Leslie, nope.
00:00:39
Plant People
Yeah. Yeah.
00:00:41
Alexis
I'm here for it. And ah some of you who are maybe used to listening to this podcast via YouTube are noticing that our beautiful faces are now on for the 100th episode.
00:00:42
Plant People
Love it.
00:00:50
Jessica
You can actually see us.
00:00:52
Alexis
You can see us.
00:00:53
Brett
Yes,
Corgi Pot and Plant Passion
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Brett
you can watch as well as listen.
00:00:54
Alexis
These are the ridiculous hand movements that we make during this process.
00:00:56
Brett
Lucky you.
00:00:58
Alexis
For those of you who are listening in the in the old traditional way, ah you know, we promise to make sure to remember that this is a ah audio Uh, thing mostly and not as much visual, but that being said, I want to show you my plan.
00:01:08
Brett
Right.
00:01:13
Brett
Yeah, show them off.
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Alexis
and Okay.
00:01:13
Alexis
All right. This is in a Corgi pod.
00:01:15
Jessica
Oh.
00:01:18
Alexis
So I'll ah'll give some description. Uh, this is a Corgi pod, uh, as, as.
00:01:22
Brett
Ceramic?
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Alexis
you
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Brett
Ceramic corgi?
00:01:24
Alexis
ceramic corgi ah that was given to me. I now have three of them ah because people see them, not all from the same person, all different people, who they see them and they think, this is a pot that is a corgi.
00:01:35
Alexis
Obviously, Alexis needs it. and I'm quite flattered by that. so um I love the fact that I yeah see.
00:01:39
Jessica
Guilty.
00:01:40
Plant People
Winter, winter.
00:01:41
Alexis
um In it is a dragon fruit plant that I started from seed and I'm real proud of it.
00:01:42
Jessica
but
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Alexis
so ah This thing in theory should get huge, but right now it's just little and pokey and it sits in my office. And I have like a bunch more at home because I can't let them die.
00:02:01
Alexis
So they just aren't pokey.
00:02:01
Plant People
Is that its name, Pokey, or is that just like a coincidence?
00:02:04
Alexis
No dragon, obviously.
00:02:06
Plant People
Okay. How about Pokey dragon?
00:02:08
Alexis
So anyways, this is my plant and it is the Hort Culture, ah you know, podcast. So that felt and like an appropriate first thing on our first video for the hundredth episode.
00:02:19
Plant People
It's good quality content.
00:02:20
Jessica
Very nice.
00:02:21
Plant People
It's good quality content.
00:02:21
Brett
to to adapt Descartes Corgito ergo es.
00:02:29
Brett
vito area
00:02:29
Alexis
Yes.
00:02:30
Plant People
What he said
00:02:30
Brett
that cogite you think I think therefore I am, you Corgi, therefore you are.
00:02:31
Alexis
Si señor.
00:02:32
Jessica
Yes. Okay.
00:02:38
Brett
I think that's why the that would be the translation from the Latin.
00:02:39
Alexis
Where's the lie?
00:02:41
Brett
So for the 3% of people who liked what I just said, thank you very much.
Encouraging Listener Reviews
00:02:46
Brett
but I'm going to break a little bit of our ah normal flow here and put this at the beginning to say, if you have if you've been listening for a while or you're relatively new, if you haven't already taken the time to go to Apple Podcasts or Spotify or whatever format, whatever place you're listening and give us a ideally a five-star review and leave a comment in the case of Apple Podcasts or wherever you might be.
00:03:13
Brett
It really does help us to justify keep doing justify the keeping doing this to people that we work with and it makes us feel good too as a side benefit.
00:03:22
Alexis
and We also appreciate it.
00:03:24
Brett
um Yeah, yeah. and So we we put it at the end. And i I know sometimes I tend to just once the content is over, I skip past all that stuff. And so this one time, you know, we don't, we know you know, we don't front load asks for, like, subscribe, hit the bell icon, for example, you know, if this were a YouTube channel.
00:03:41
Brett
Oh, wait, it is.
00:03:42
Plant People
Oh, yeah.
00:03:42
Alexis
Oh, wait.
00:03:42
Brett
um But yeah, any any of that feedback, it really does actually help us to keep doing this.
00:03:43
Plant People
Yeah. yeah
00:03:49
Alexis
We do brag about it and how awesome all of you people are and all the places that you're listening from. So ah thank you
00:03:56
Jessica
Mm hmm.
00:03:56
Brett
Yeah.
Food, Horticulture, and Cheese
00:03:57
Brett
And so you you mentioned, you mentioned we're coming up on a hundred.
00:03:57
Alexis
for giving that to us.
00:04:01
Alexis
We are at a hundred not coming up. We are this is.
00:04:03
Jessica
This is 100.
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Plant People
ah
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Brett
We've arrived on it.
00:04:06
Plant People
Another, it's a the hundredth episode of the food podcast. It feels like I know to some of you guys, we love introing with food.
00:04:13
Jessica
Do you love talking about food?
00:04:15
Plant People
Yes, I love eating food and I love talking about it.
00:04:16
Alexis
Well, I mean, part of horticulture is food. It's a lot of other things too, but food is part of the culture.
00:04:20
Plant People
That is part of the culture. I like it, Alexis. Yes. Yeah, a big part of it.
00:04:25
Alexis
Duh. That's why I bring it up.
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Plant People
with
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Alexis
Also, I like cheese. So what? Come at me.
00:04:30
Plant People
you You always have to the s slide into the fact of something with cheese.
00:04:34
Brett
Yeah, it is a theme.
00:04:34
Alexis
Yeah.
00:04:34
Plant People
I mean, cheese is always in season is why I enjoy that. Cheese is always in season. It is.
00:04:39
Alexis
I am so good with that being something people relate to me. She always talks about cheese. Like if that's, that's the vibe, I'm okay with it.
00:04:46
Jessica
That's what I'm known for. I'm fine with that, right?
00:04:47
Plant People
that that's That's pretty strong.
00:04:47
Alexis
That's fine.
00:04:48
Brett
um Some would argue that value and ah one of our former our former host, Josh Knight would would be among this group would argue that value added dairy is perhaps the highest form of human achievement because it's Yeah, it's amazing.
00:05:03
Brett
It's this the opportunity to to capture all of this energy and flavor and delicious stuff, and you can also store it like for a while.
00:05:04
Jessica
It lasts a long time.
00:05:12
Brett
Amazing.
00:05:12
Alexis
I just heard Josh go off in my head all about that. Like I just heard his voice.
00:05:15
Brett
Yeah, yeah. Well, speaking of old Josh, Um, we've obviously kept up with him. He's, he's relocated up to the new England areas.
00:05:26
Brett
We're still working in agriculture up there.
Jessica Joins as Full-Time Host
00:05:28
Brett
Uh, do it seemingly doing well, just drinking his weight in maple syrup, I assume.
00:05:34
Alexis
We know, I personally know a lot more about maple syrup now that he is in that area than I used to, so.
00:05:35
Jessica
as one does up there.
00:05:35
Brett
Uh,
00:05:42
Brett
but this 2024. We celebrated by adding a new, she converted from true leaf and guest to full host.
00:05:49
Jessica
Woo hoo.
00:05:54
Jessica
I did. And it was, ah it's okay.
00:05:56
Brett
Makes it sound like a parasite or something, but it's, you know.
00:05:56
Plant People
You.
00:05:59
Jessica
You know, I'm a bug person, so.
00:05:59
Plant People
She kind of fell for it. she but we We invited her on as a guest, and she did, of course, a great job talking about some things. And we were like, yes, that was the gateway.
00:06:10
Alexis
She's kind of like the only person we thought of.
00:06:10
Plant People
That was the gateway.
00:06:11
Jessica
Well.
00:06:12
Alexis
We were like, Hey, we need a new host. Who do you think would be interested? Like, who would we enjoy? And all of us were gonna like suggest like, suggest that.
00:06:18
Jessica
Oh, they're like gonna make me cry now that like we're being filmed.
00:06:18
Brett
at the exact same time.
00:06:20
Alexis
Yeah.
00:06:20
Brett
We all said Jessica.
Podcast Mission and Energy
00:06:23
Jessica
Well, thank you.
00:06:23
Brett
Cry for the camera Jessica, it's good for views.
00:06:24
Jessica
I've enjoyed being on here. Right?
00:06:27
Plant People
but But you know, I questioned it. i was um I was the one. I said, but does she like cheese? And the answer was, of course, yes. So it was a lock, 100%.
00:06:33
Jessica
Yes. I do like cheese.
00:06:34
Plant People
It was a lock.
00:06:35
Jessica
Yeah.
00:06:35
Alexis
Obviously in.
00:06:35
Plant People
so
00:06:35
Jessica
That was like the final like interview process. I had to list off a bunch of cheeses that I like and how to prepare them to get onto this.
00:06:38
Alexis
Yeah.
00:06:43
Alexis
cheese advent calendar.
00:06:44
Jessica
Yes. Oh yeah. Cheese advent calendar.
00:06:46
Alexis
ah Those are things.
00:06:47
Jessica
So.
00:06:48
Alexis
And Jessica got me one for Christmas and it was incredible. ah
00:06:52
Jessica
And we would text each day about what cheese did you open today?
00:06:54
Alexis
It was a vibe.
00:06:55
Jessica
And do you like it or not?
00:06:57
Alexis
Yeah. It was, I had pocket cheese because it was like individually wrapped.
00:06:59
Plant People
and
00:07:02
Alexis
So it would go in my pocket and then pocket cheese.
00:07:02
Jessica
Mm hmm.
00:07:03
Plant People
That's like, is it the cheeses that need to be served at room temperature or slightly above?
00:07:03
Jessica
Wonderful.
00:07:08
Alexis
Sure.
00:07:08
Plant People
You put it in your pocket and you want it?
00:07:08
Alexis
We'll say yes.
00:07:08
Jessica
Yeah, they were fine.
00:07:09
Alexis
I was never ill, so that's what matters.
00:07:10
Plant People
Okay. Okay. Yeah.
00:07:12
Jessica
They were good either way.
00:07:12
Brett
Cheese is a dish best served cold.
00:07:14
Alexis
Sorry, I brought it back to cheese. My bad.
00:07:15
Jessica
Back to cheese again.
00:07:15
Brett
Yeah, we can't we can't escape it.
00:07:17
Plant People
It's.
00:07:17
Alexis
This is a plant podcast, I understand.
00:07:20
Brett
Tis the season for cheesin'.
00:07:20
Jessica
Well, I can say that I felt very honored to be asked your podcast because, you know, everybody had talked about how cool you guys were and how cool the podcast was.
00:07:31
Plant People
That's us telling people that we were like, they're so cool.
00:07:31
Jessica
So it should, it was just, it was just, and I would hang out with like the three of you and then you all would just tell me about how cool you were.
00:07:32
Alexis
Yeah.
00:07:32
Brett
Yeah, I'm glad those marketing materials are getting out.
00:07:34
Alexis
It's just, I'll give you five bucks.
00:07:35
Plant People
yeah
00:07:39
Jessica
So I was influenced.
00:07:40
Alexis
like We're like awesome. So you're welcome for being here. um
00:07:44
Plant People
We, we, we've had a truly, we've had a good time with the podcast.
00:07:44
Brett
Yeah.
00:07:47
Plant People
And when you guys say that it's like Alexis, you said it's the a hundredth episode. I really ah can't believe it because it feels like, you know, when we're preparing the show and going over show notes and things we're going to talk about.
00:07:54
Alexis
him
00:07:59
Plant People
You know, during recording sessions, uh, we get to hang out with one another and I enjoy everyone's company
Blending Information with Fun
00:08:05
Plant People
here. And I think there's always been this kind of, you know, when we were first conceptualizing this and wondering if we should do it or not, we knew that it had to be something that built our energy up rather than took it down because it does take a lot of time.
00:08:17
Plant People
It takes dedication. I know we're only 100 episodes in, but it's a weekly podcast and and it's on top of all of our regular ah duties that we do otherwise, but this is it's the kind of show that it's been for me.
00:08:24
Brett
Right.
00:08:26
Alexis
Right.
00:08:29
Plant People
it's ah It sort of builds me up to kind of hang out with these folks and and we goof off and then the mic comes on and then we goof off some more. And we talk about really cool things with really cool guests and we do ah you know all these things that that sometimes feels like plant therapy.
00:08:36
Jessica
Yes.
00:08:37
Brett
Right.
00:08:44
Plant People
So it's it's been a really cool experience.
00:08:45
Brett
Yeah.
00:08:45
Jessica
Right.
00:08:46
Plant People
And I just can't believe it's been 100 episodes.
00:08:48
Jessica
You have to learn a lot of things too, right?
00:08:48
Plant People
I really can't.
00:08:50
Alexis
Mm hmm.
00:08:50
Plant People
Yes, I love hearing from you.
00:08:50
Jessica
It was just our guests and from each other and it's been good.
00:08:53
Plant People
Yeah.
00:08:56
Brett
Yeah, I think, I think for me, you know, the, like any job, the more you do it, the more you get into it, the more that the bureaucracy and everything develops, you start to lose pieces of the reason you got into it, the like actual core of why you were doing it in the first place.
00:08:57
Jessica
So.
00:09:11
Alexis
And.
00:09:12
Brett
Sometimes, especially, you know, other things in life come up. And so for me, this is like, yeah talking about this stuff is at one of the cores of why I got into extension, why I'm interested in this stuff to begin with is,
00:09:26
Brett
this human connection, it's the mission, it's the ideas, it's the things we wanna share with people while also having a good time and ah celebrating just being human and interacting with plants, which is that the culture of horticulture.
00:09:41
Brett
It's just this weird little, weird large group of people who just, they just can't get enough of these photosynthic photosynthetic friends.
00:09:46
Alexis
It's the difference between horticulture and botany because like I think sometimes that people don't grasp.
00:09:49
Jessica
We love plants.
00:09:53
Brett
Yeah.
00:09:55
Alexis
It's like, no, I'm not a botanist. I'm a horticulturist and botanist will say the same thing.
00:09:58
Brett
and Oh, man.
00:09:59
Alexis
And I think it's the the
Top 10 Episode Reflections
00:10:01
Alexis
human interaction and the social, yeah, the social and economic side of botany added in.
00:10:02
Plant People
Botany is a science and horticulture is a social way. I mean, I know it's not clear cut like that. Yeah, maybe so.
00:10:08
Brett
You think we could like start a beef with botanists?
00:10:08
Plant People
I like it.
00:10:11
Alexis
Ooh, fight.
00:10:11
Plant People
I think, yeah.
00:10:12
Jessica
Probably.
00:10:13
Alexis
at me. Maybe we should have a botan maybe we should just have a botanist on and then we can bridge those differences.
00:10:15
Jessica
Just
00:10:19
Brett
We can.
00:10:19
Jessica
Look, I, I could start it cause you're just going to give me like plant names that I can't pronounce.
00:10:20
Plant People
We could have like a sing off.
00:10:20
Brett
Okay. Well, I guess.
00:10:24
Jessica
Right.
00:10:25
Brett
Yeah.
00:10:25
Jessica
And then that's going to set some people off like right there.
00:10:28
Brett
Yeah, like Tomato.
00:10:28
Alexis
Listen, as a reminder, Latin is a dead language so who's gonna tell you you're wrong?
00:10:30
Brett
Am I saying that right?
00:10:31
Jessica
Po-tay-toe.
00:10:34
Brett
Ooh.
00:10:35
Jessica
Oh, there you go.
00:10:36
Brett
I did open with Korgito Ergo S, so I might be the one who tells you.
00:10:41
Plant People
we just took his word for it we're like
00:10:43
Alexis
I might be the one offending everyone else, yeah.
00:10:45
Brett
That is an example of something that if I heard it, it would make me chuckle. So I have a feeling it won't make anyone else laugh, which is which is great. what what if what if So we've we've done a lot of episodes in our time here.
00:10:58
Brett
um How many?
00:10:58
Alexis
One would say almost 100.
00:11:00
Brett
Yeah, 99 up till today, and then 100 as of today, just to catch you up to do some quick math.
00:11:01
Alexis
99, previously.
00:11:07
Brett
I did some more math. went but I went back through all of our episodes and I created a strange little methodology for determining which ones were our most popular while trying to control for the fact that some of these episodes have been out in the ether for a hundred weeks and people can go and they can start from the beginning or they can find it.
00:11:27
Brett
Some of them have been out in the ether for ah you know less than ah less than a week.
00:11:31
Jessica
Mm-hmm.
00:11:31
Brett
And so I tried to control for that using a methodology I'm publishing in podcasts, dorks monthly coming out next month. Uh, and I thought maybe, maybe we could run down a top 10 list here, uh, of, of our most popular episodes and see what we can remember, if we can remember anything from them.
00:11:46
Plant People
Sure.
00:11:47
Jessica
right
00:11:47
Plant People
Awesome.
00:11:48
Alexis
Cool.
00:11:52
Brett
Yeah. And so these are, these are so across the gamut all the way ah through 2023 and 2024. We're now in 2025. So none of those are are included. So number 10, like a drum roll, or I need a drum roll or something.
Fall Planting Discussions
00:12:06
Brett
Fall from from October 23rd, 2023. Fall is for planting.
00:12:14
Alexis
Yeah, that was like a reminder that fall could be a time for planting.
00:12:15
Plant People
ah feel like I feel like anything with the title, I don't know, it's something about Ottoman. I know we've talked a lot about seasonality on this podcast and and how we love the changing of the seasons, it seems like.
00:12:30
Plant People
And everything associated with that, but I think it's an unfair leg up that it's a fall topic because those fall topics, they seem to do pretty well um because that's a fairly, you know, generalized.
00:12:38
Alexis
o
00:12:41
Plant People
That's a, that's a general name for that podcast and people find these things and discover them, you know, multitude of different ways, but.
00:12:47
Alexis
Oh, you're saying the word fall is like like a tag.
00:12:49
Plant People
Yeah, just fall. I mean, so do people search autumn?
00:12:51
Jessica
I feel like it's first fall.
00:12:52
Plant People
Do they search fall? ah Do they search planting? Yeah. I mean, how did how did did it get to the top?
00:12:56
Alexis
Well, yeah, it depends where they're located at.
00:12:59
Plant People
Yeah, but exactly.
00:12:59
Jessica
Yeah.
00:13:00
Plant People
So you bring into geography into that and it kind of confounds it even more, but I feel like those fall episodes, I love them. ah It's a real turning of the seasons here in Kentucky where we're at, you know, zone six and seven or whatever the latest song is going to be in the future.
00:13:14
Plant People
Uh, but, uh, I do love those fall episodes. So it's no surprise to me that that, did you say that was number 10 out of the top 10?
00:13:20
Brett
Number 10. Yeah. And good it's a good ah good ah good observation, Ray, that ah five out of these top 10 were either it were in September, October, or November of one year or the other.
00:13:21
Plant People
Okay. Doesn't that not surprising.
00:13:30
Plant People
You know, we're in a seasonal business. we If we're talking with producers and homeowners, and as yeah I guess that's not surprising. Also, I think about the seasonality and all the discussions we've had, you know, we're going into longer nights, shorter days, maybe people, I don't know, maybe they have more time to do things like listen to podcasts. What do you guys think?
00:13:49
Brett
Could be, could be that. Yeah, I don't know it that maybe we maybe we are on our game then because we've we have shared our summer on we and.
00:13:52
Plant People
I don't know.
00:13:52
Alexis
Could be they just didn't yeah, could be they didn't know
00:13:54
Plant People
I could be.
00:13:59
Plant People
Maybe they sense that energy that we bring when we're talking about fall and the day's getting cooler and we've been sweating out of every open pore in our body.
00:14:07
Brett
Mm hmm.
00:14:07
Plant People
ah For those of you guys, especially those of you guys, I mean, the host here that that produce, you know, food and fiber and fun other fun things ah for the world.
00:14:07
Alexis
dont know
00:14:17
Plant People
ah Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:18
Brett
Yeah.
Organic Matter Episode Success
00:14:19
Brett
Well, number nine, organic matter, the unsung hero of healthy soil from October 20th, 2024.
00:14:19
Alexis
What's number nine? Yeah.
00:14:23
Jessica
Hmm.
00:14:28
Plant People
OK.
00:14:28
Alexis
Okay, so that one's not been out very long to be in the top ten.
00:14:29
Jessica
That one hasn't been long.
00:14:29
Plant People
That was a good one. That was a really fun one.
00:14:31
Jessica
Yeah.
00:14:32
Plant People
that one's that That one was a fun one and organic matter can be pretty simple to talk about or you can take a super deep dive into organic matter and I think I remember that from that episode that it can be a it can get into complex science, botany level science even if you will.
00:14:41
Jessica
Yeah.
00:14:48
Alexis
Wah!
00:14:50
Plant People
Yeah, that was a good one.
00:14:50
Brett
Hmm.
00:14:51
Plant People
That was a fun episode ah talking about organic matter because it's so critically important to so much of what we talk about and what we do in the field of horticulture.
00:14:59
Brett
The botany discrepancy, it feels like it could be like the parks and rec ah parks department versus libraries, or it's like the botanists like, okay.
00:14:59
Plant People
no then it and and
00:15:05
Plant People
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:15:06
Jessica
Yeah.
00:15:07
Plant People
This but this is where the subdivisions happen, people who were cultivars and you guys are just like natively occurring.
00:15:10
Brett
You know.
00:15:13
Jessica
Straight
00:15:14
Alexis
Straight species.
00:15:16
Plant People
Yeah.
00:15:16
Jessica
species.
00:15:18
Brett
number eight on the list fall garden and landscape cleanup from august 27th 2023 so so far we got we got some what some that are break the break the pattern coming up but
00:15:28
Plant People
Apparently, we're just going to have to put the word fall on things.
00:15:30
Jessica
It's all all themed.
00:15:31
Plant People
ah Yeah.
00:15:36
Alexis
Well, yeah, do you think, I was wondering, do you think it's because I think people tend to know more about like summer growing a garden and like the flowers, you know, zinnias and the petunias and fall is is still a little unknown for a lot of newer gardeners, like the opportunities and what you should be doing.
00:15:43
Jessica
Right.
00:15:54
Alexis
I like to think it's because they want to learn. Not just because they're like pumpkin spice lattes, but that's okay too.
00:15:57
Plant People
yeah Yeah, probably so, Lexus. That's what I was thinking. ah People are you know getting ready to shut things down. or It's a transition period, so people want to know how to deal with that, maybe.
00:16:05
Jessica
Their gardens are already dead, so what can I do now with it?
00:16:08
Alexis
Yeah, they're like, eh, what do I do now?
00:16:08
Plant People
Yeah. What do we do with this dead garden now? Yeah.
00:16:10
Alexis
By August, yeah.
00:16:10
Plant People
yeah
00:16:11
Jessica
Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:13
Brett
Yeah, I mean, again, and I guess fall is the kind of beginning of the dreaming of the next round.
00:16:18
Jessica
yeah
00:16:18
Brett
I don't know. I don't know. I mean, some of this is again, this isn't like a hardcore methodology. It was just trying to attempt to see episodes that stood out relative to their time peers like around the same time peers like this was most these are the most you know, from their era.
00:16:24
Plant People
No.
00:16:32
Jessica
Mm-hmm.
00:16:35
Brett
These are the most ah most popular episodes. So Next one here from, from January 28th.
Economic Insights in Horticulture
00:16:41
Brett
So breaking the cycle, 2024, Kentucky horticulture economic situation and outlook 2024, which featured Dr.
00:16:49
Alexis
so Did we have Tim on that one?
00:16:49
Jessica
Wow.
00:16:51
Alexis
Yeah.
00:16:52
Brett
Tim woods of agricultural economics at the university of Kentucky.
00:16:54
Alexis
Have we told him he's in top 10 yet?
00:16:54
Jessica
Aw.
00:16:56
Brett
I haven't told him I'm trying to, you know, we're trying to do some ego management. Uh, just, uh, no, I'm just kidding.
00:17:00
Alexis
Oh. He's gonna watch that this and be like, excuse me?
00:17:02
Brett
if You know, Tim, you know, Tim, that's kind of a funny thing.
00:17:05
Alexis
Yeah.
00:17:05
Brett
Yeah.
00:17:06
Jessica
hey
00:17:06
Brett
Uh,
00:17:07
Plant People
that This was great discussion on this one. I mean, ab I particularly like this because I love the econ outlooks and current analysis of the current situation, but it kind of surprised me that it was so high on the list, but I guess that speaks maybe to the fact of the commercial listeners that are on here.
00:17:09
Brett
Yeah.
00:17:23
Plant People
I mean, it's an economic outlook.
00:17:23
Brett
i I think it's also possible that that Tim got very excited about it and like sent it to a bunch of people and then they listened to it because he was on it.
00:17:24
Plant People
It usually doesn't evoke really strong passion, econ, but maybe it did in this case. so
00:17:36
Plant People
Oh.
00:17:37
Jessica
Yeah.
00:17:38
Plant People
Yeah, very well.
00:17:39
Brett
I think that's entirely possible.
00:17:40
Jessica
That's sweet.
00:17:41
Plant People
yeah Are you saying he spammed his entire mailing list?
00:17:43
Jessica
And hopefully, you know, that is.
00:17:43
Alexis
I was supposed to say, that's adorable.
00:17:43
Plant People
Yeah.
00:17:45
Brett
No, I think it's cool.
00:17:45
Alexis
I hope he did.
00:17:46
Brett
yeah i'm i'm not just as if it's It's a funny idea.
00:17:46
Jessica
Yeah.
00:17:46
Plant People
Yeah.
00:17:48
Brett
of tip well and it's part of it's that tim Tim and I have worked together for 10 years, and so we know each other very well, and so I'm just teasing.
00:17:51
Plant People
Yeah.
00:17:55
Brett
and But I do think he was like he was into it, and it was cool, and it was this fun, different thing, which is what we're trying to do with this podcast, ah is is we don't want this to feel like,
00:18:06
Brett
a really dry university output, you know, that we want it to be something that's listenable and fun, but also has some some substance to it.
00:18:10
Jessica
Right.
00:18:14
Brett
and And hopefully that comes through in these topics.
00:18:16
Alexis
worth Worth your time that you might get a giggle out of.
00:18:18
Jessica
Right.
00:18:19
Alexis
That's the goal. That's my goal.
00:18:20
Brett
Yes, exactly. Um, so number, let's see, what am I on seven?
00:18:22
Alexis
Giggles.
00:18:23
Plant People
Great episode.
00:18:25
Alexis
Seven.
00:18:26
Brett
Number seven, let's see, 10, nine, eight, no, number six.
Urban and Community Gardens
00:18:31
Brett
Sorry. That number seven was the economic situation, cultivating community, urban and community gardens with Bethany Pratt.
00:18:34
Alexis
Okay.
00:18:38
Brett
That is our most recently featured episode on the list from a November 3rd, 2024.
00:18:40
Jessica
That was... Yeah.
00:18:46
Alexis
top notch.
00:18:47
Jessica
Yeah.
00:18:48
Brett
Yeah.
00:18:48
Alexis
And a cool, yeah, something different to think about like that.
00:18:49
Jessica
Really cool. Yeah.
00:18:49
Plant People
and
00:18:52
Alexis
Well, it just like, you know, if people who maybe aren't involved in like urban community gardens, you know, what is that like, or people who are wanting to start them, you know, certain maybe the search for community garden that popped up and
00:19:02
Plant People
Yeah, the keyword community garden, I mean, yeah.
00:19:03
Jessica
Yeah. Cause she had such a great perspective well you were from where she's been doing it for years, like great perspective on it and all the things that can go right.
00:19:13
Jessica
All the things that can go wrong. You know, um, she could probably talk for another hour about, um, Management and yes.
00:19:17
Plant People
And the complexity behind it, yeah.
00:19:19
Alexis
Yeah, and it's like so much less about the actual garden itself. It's all the rags behind it, too, just like to be able to use a space.
00:19:29
Jessica
Yeah.
00:19:29
Alexis
It's interesting.
00:19:29
Jessica
It's a very,
00:19:30
Brett
You wouldn't, you wouldn't want a botanist in charge of the community garden. You would want a horticulturist, a person who's able to bridge that gap.
00:19:34
Jessica
No, you would.
00:19:37
Alexis
or Or a lawyer who's really good at paperwork.
00:19:37
Plant People
Can work with culture.
00:19:39
Brett
I'm going to just wear that bit out for the rest of the episode. Just so everyone gets strapped in.
00:19:42
Plant People
You're going to ride that pony into the sunset, Brett.
00:19:42
Jessica
Yeah.
00:19:44
Alexis
I'm gonna have like every botanist that is known like emailing me ferociously.
00:19:44
Plant People
Yeah.
00:19:44
Brett
Yeah.
00:19:48
Alexis
ah How dare you?
00:19:50
Brett
Yeah. at At me, go ahead. At me botanist at horticulture podcast.
00:19:56
Plant People
That just means they're listening.
00:19:57
Jessica
We're just getting us more listens, right?
00:19:57
Brett
Hit me up.
00:19:58
Plant People
I like it.
00:19:58
Brett
I'm in the DMs.
00:19:59
Alexis
Specifically Brett.
00:20:00
Brett
Let me know what's up. I could square off with grafting knives or something. oh Yeah.
00:20:05
Plant People
Oh, those are sharp.
00:20:06
Jessica
Oh, those, yeah, those are, so yes.
00:20:06
Plant People
Be careful.
00:20:06
Alexis
I have those in a lot of places.
00:20:07
Brett
ah Yeah. You don't even feel it.
00:20:09
Alexis
Yeah.
00:20:10
Jessica
Remember, we must always take them out of our bags before we get on an airplane, Alexis, right?
00:20:11
Plant People
Zero.
00:20:11
Alexis
um no
00:20:14
Jessica
We must always do that.
00:20:14
Alexis
there
00:20:14
Plant People
Oh gosh.
00:20:14
Brett
o Oh, wow.
00:20:15
Alexis
They're like they' in a lot of spaces.
00:20:15
Brett
That sounds like a podcast episode.
00:20:16
Plant People
There's a, not only do you have a knife, you have several knives.
00:20:18
Alexis
isn
00:20:20
Jessica
We just have a lot of grafting knives in different places.
00:20:23
Plant People
Okay.
00:20:23
Brett
TSA, the TSA violations of a horticulturalist.
00:20:23
Alexis
I have like one in my car, one in one in my desk.
00:20:28
Alexis
want You never know when you might need to graph something, okay?
00:20:30
Jessica
Right.
00:20:31
Brett
Yeah, well, something you might graft potentially would be a pawpaw tree.
00:20:33
Jessica
Or, you know.
00:20:37
Brett
And number five on our list is the pawpaw primer, which featured Dr.
Pawpaw Trees Episode Celebration
00:20:42
Brett
ah Kirk, I forgot his first name, Kirk Pomper.
00:20:43
Plant People
Kirk the Pumper, yeah.
00:20:44
Alexis
pomper.
00:20:45
Jessica
However,
00:20:46
Plant People
I had to think myself. Yeah, I was like, what was it?
00:20:47
Brett
I was like, Dr.
00:20:48
Plant People
What was the name?
00:20:48
Brett
Pomper, what?
00:20:49
Plant People
He's committed.
00:20:50
Brett
dr Dr.
00:20:50
Plant People
What was the name?
00:20:51
Brett
Kirk Pomper sat down with us and pawpaws are always a big draw.
00:20:52
Plant People
Yeah.
00:20:53
Brett
This was another another relatively recent episode from September 8th, 2024.
00:20:54
Plant People
Yeah.
00:20:59
Plant People
Yeah, that's a unique program.
00:20:59
Brett
And just talking about the amazing pawpaw program that they have at KSU, ah nationally and internationally known for pawpaw genetic research and yeah.
00:21:09
Alexis
and Literally bred pawpaws that people buy now. Like those are KSU pawpaws, which is so cool.
00:21:13
Plant People
Yeah.
00:21:13
Jessica
yeah, so cool.
00:21:14
Plant People
It was such a great, great discussion and learned so much myself personally from hearing from someone like him that is involved on an international level and on a genetics level.
00:21:17
Jessica
Mm hmm.
00:21:25
Plant People
It was so cool. That was a really super cool episode.
00:21:27
Alexis
Literally writing the book.
00:21:27
Jessica
Same.
00:21:29
Plant People
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:29
Jessica
It's really.
00:21:29
Brett
it's also It's also fun to bring, so so Dr. Pompers, Kirk is another person we've known and worked with for as long as I've been here, and it's fun to bring people you know in these other contexts into this environment.
00:21:30
Plant People
So good.
00:21:43
Alexis
mmm informal yeah oh to be guess yeah
00:21:44
Brett
Where we're like, it's like, this is a little, it's a little more wacky than you're used to.
00:21:48
Jessica
Yes, a little laid back, right?
00:21:48
Brett
Yeah. Informal. Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:50
Jessica
Yeah.
00:21:51
Brett
Like this is chill, man. And I saw us telling, I was, we were at a, at a, at a conference recently, I was trying to explain to people who clearly weren't listeners. Otherwise they would know that we're how we are. Um, but I was trying to try to, try to tell them like, it's pretty chill, but they were all real nervous and they want to know, you know, how to prepare.
00:22:08
Brett
And I was like, well, okay. To be guests. Yeah.
00:22:11
Jessica
Yeah.
00:22:11
Brett
So there'll be some more guests coming up.
00:22:12
Plant People
What do you know about food and cheese?
00:22:13
Brett
Um, but yeah, it's, it's always just fun to be like, yeah.
00:22:16
Plant People
Yeah.
00:22:16
Brett
And our, the way that we are with, with him was fun.
00:22:19
Jessica
it I could say that from, you know, being a guest the first time I was like, what do you ask me to talk about bees? And then I was like, I know nothing about bees. How many years have I had bees, right?
00:22:29
Alexis
I was like, Jessica, you know lots of things about bees.
00:22:31
Brett
Yeah.
00:22:31
Plant People
What is your formal training in Jessica again?
00:22:32
Brett
In all of my years of having bees, I've not learned anything.
00:22:32
Jessica
that was like And was like, I need to read everything I know about bees, you know, before I got on here.
00:22:33
Plant People
Yeah.
00:22:35
Alexis
I know nothing.
00:22:38
Alexis
I was like, you
00:22:40
Jessica
And then of course, once I got on here, it was like, super chill.
00:22:43
Alexis
like oh yeah, kind of some bees, some stuff about bees.
00:22:45
Plant People
We luck, honey.
00:22:45
Jessica
And then like, Yeah. And then, you know, it just flows easily and good conversation.
00:22:50
Plant People
Nice. wellde Well played.
00:22:51
Brett
i I think for me for me this this format or this the way that we do this, it feels like the best version of having an after meeting conversation after extension meeting conversation.
00:22:52
Plant People
Well played.
00:23:05
Alexis
The meeting after the meeting, yeah.
00:23:07
Jessica
and so
00:23:07
Brett
Yeah. with like like you go and do like I'll go and do a program about farmer's market prices. and then afterward people come up to me and they ask questions and i'm just myself very similar to the how i am on the podcast social interacting same me with eight with agents like it's just like the best version of that in this podcast form where there's information but it's friendly it's the people or it matters who the people are that are sharing i think that to me is what i really enjoy the most about the vibe that we are able have been able to create is it feels like going into an extension office or going into ah and and talking to somebody about someone who that somebody who cares about this maybe as much as you do, ah maybe more in the case of some of you crazy people.
00:23:44
Jessica
What was that?
00:23:46
Alexis
Spotness.
00:23:50
Brett
Now you're the one.
00:23:51
Plant People
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:52
Brett
Okay, so number number four on the list. About to crack the top three here in a second. ah From the day before Halloween, August 30th, 2023, Fall Vibes.
00:24:02
Alexis
August, September, October.
00:24:06
Brett
What?
00:24:07
Alexis
Did you say August?
Fall Themes and Plant Folklore
00:24:08
Alexis
You said August 30th, the day before Halloween.
00:24:08
Jessica
I guess...
00:24:09
Brett
It's also called October. I mean, it depends on which, you know, if you're on a Gregorian calendar or...
00:24:11
Alexis
but Also known as ah October.
00:24:12
Jessica
I was like, that is not close to Halloween.
00:24:14
Plant People
That's Latin, Alexis. That's Latin. Come on.
00:24:17
Brett
I'll actually listen.
00:24:17
Alexis
My i bet.
00:24:17
Plant People
Nobody's going to know. Nobody's going to know.
00:24:19
Alexis
My bet.
00:24:20
Brett
You listen to me more than I listen to myself, because I...
00:24:20
Plant People
Nobody's going to know.
00:24:21
Jessica
ah just Just let him keep talking, OK?
00:24:23
Alexis
Yeah.
00:24:23
Jessica
Let's just keep going.
00:24:24
Brett
They kind of both start with that ah, that ah sound, you know?
00:24:24
Alexis
My bet. I'm sorry. I threw you off.
00:24:27
Brett
And I i just sound it out on the font, Child of Phonics.
00:24:28
Plant People
Phonetically, it's yeah, it's tough. That was a good one.
00:24:31
Brett
October.
00:24:31
Plant People
I love the spooky vibes of that one. It was kind of of you.
00:24:34
Alexis
Did you say the name?
00:24:35
Brett
Fall vibes in plant folklore.
00:24:35
Jessica
Yeah, what was the name?
00:24:37
Brett
Fall vibes in plant folklore.
00:24:37
Jessica
Ray's just looking at his own list over there.
00:24:37
Alexis
Yeah.
00:24:40
Plant People
Yeah, I'm looking at my own.
00:24:40
Alexis
He's like, I remember the folklore.
00:24:42
Plant People
I print, I print everything, but I liked that because it was a little different and plants are, you know, that's one of those things we came up with the ideal, however, and we got to thinking, well, could we have enough material for that?
00:24:53
Plant People
But it turns out we did because plants being a part of culture and culture having its own ethos and kind of its own folklore was not a terribly hard one to do, but it was a terribly fun one to do.
00:25:04
Plant People
So that was a good one.
00:25:05
Brett
Yeah, do you all do you remember offhand any like I think we talked maybe about the turnip to but ah turn up the pumpkin jack-o'-lantern pipeline?
00:25:09
Plant People
that Like.
00:25:12
Plant People
Yeah, we talked about divining for water on that one.
00:25:12
Jessica
Ooh!
00:25:15
Plant People
we Yeah, we talked, a very interesting discussion on that one.
00:25:15
Brett
Oh, yeah, the divining rods. Oh, man, that was so fun.
00:25:21
Plant People
Yeah, there was a lot of a discussion like you know that was regional based.
00:25:24
Brett
Is there another word besides divining?
00:25:28
Plant People
Well, I guess I've heard it called many, like the water witching, or there's several different terms I've heard it called, so.
00:25:28
Brett
Like a more folksy word?
00:25:29
Alexis
yeah uh water witching i've heard what is that word uh something rod like isn't it like yeah but there's another we all need to go back and listen to them so
00:25:37
Brett
It's a word.
00:25:37
Plant People
Yeah, yeah Alexis needs to look that up for us.
00:25:38
Brett
There's another word that.
00:25:39
Plant People
and
00:25:41
Brett
What the divining rod, but I thought I would have to go back and listen to that episode and and see if we.
00:25:43
Plant People
Yeah, that's the stakes.
00:25:48
Brett
many of women should to shouldn't Yeah,
00:25:49
Plant People
yeah Yeah, that was a fun one though. I mean, it had that creepy plant vibe and know that was really, really good stuff. And we talked about creepy plants, I believe like not shade and some of the ones that have a well-deserved reputation for you know nefarious thing reasons.
00:26:01
Brett
Mm hmm.
00:26:03
Plant People
So yeah, was that that was ah that was a fun one.
00:26:05
Brett
yeah Yeah, I think in general, we've done we've done some episodes that have a little more of a cult cultural human cultural flavor than the the plant side. Some of those you know performed okay. as as far as i mean they All of them do ah do fine and we really appreciate all of our listeners, but as far as pulling out what we do, this was one of them that had that porch that culture of horticulture feel, I thought, a which was really fun.
00:26:31
Brett
I'm glad it was in and this top little bit.
00:26:33
Plant People
Yeah.
00:26:33
Brett
So number three on our list comes from the third month of the year, May, ah no, sorry, March.
Podcast Evolution Reflection
00:26:40
Alexis
I was like, May is not.
00:26:40
Jessica
I was like, uh, my birthday's in March.
00:26:41
Alexis
Oh, they're in my ear. Brett, get it together!
00:26:42
Brett
ah you didn't call the call Call the gas company, my house, call help.
00:26:48
Jessica
Yeah.
00:26:49
Plant People
Oxygen's being depleted.
00:26:50
Brett
March 10th, 2023, so you bought a farm.
00:26:54
Plant People
Was that our very first episode?
00:26:56
Brett
It was our very first episode.
00:26:57
Plant People
Yeah, I thought so, yeah.
00:26:57
Alexis
Aww!
00:26:58
Jessica
Oh.
00:26:59
Brett
March 10th, 2023.
00:26:59
Alexis
The very first episode, pop three.
00:27:02
Plant People
You can tell because we didn't talk about a food as much on the intro.
00:27:05
Brett
Yeah.
00:27:05
Plant People
You can tell it was the first episode.
00:27:06
Brett
I actually do kind of want to go back and listen to that one and just hear how so how stiff and nervous we might've been.
00:27:06
Alexis
There was no cheese involved.
00:27:11
Alexis
no
00:27:13
Brett
And just like, ah.
00:27:14
Alexis
We had like um like, I still have ah my um ah notebook that I wrote a bunch of stuff down in and like the the intro and what I was going to say on the out, which is, and you know, how I outlined every episode.
00:27:28
Alexis
I still have all those like random notes with doodles all over them.
00:27:31
Plant People
I don't even know if we had the intro jingle and the outro jingle.
00:27:31
Alexis
And yeah,
00:27:32
Jessica
Which now, yeah, now you can just like repeat that anywhere, right?
00:27:34
Plant People
I don't think we had any of that. Yeah.
00:27:38
Jessica
You're international.
00:27:38
Alexis
yes.
00:27:38
Plant People
In your sleep.
00:27:38
Brett
Burned into our brains.
00:27:39
Alexis
Just like I can still do the radio.
00:27:39
Jessica
So if you want, if you want some entertainment, listen to like the little episodes that Ray and I did for Christmas. And we were like, yeah yeah, check us out on Instagram and all the things and, and, and yeah, grow with us.
00:27:49
Plant People
We're on there and stuff and grow something with this. Yeah.
00:27:56
Jessica
Thank you.
00:27:56
Alexis
I don't always say that.
00:27:57
Alexis
Sometimes I forget.
00:27:59
Jessica
Well, we think you always say it, okay?
00:27:59
Alexis
My bad.
00:27:59
Brett
yeah
00:28:01
Jessica
Just let it live like that in our heads that you always say it.
00:28:01
Plant People
Yeah. if you But that that that was something that sort of developed and then Alexa standardized it by actually recording it. We were able to inject that into the podcast program and it became our thing, our intro and our exit jingle is just the jingle.
00:28:18
Plant People
But yeah, things like that you pick up over time, you pick up a rhythm and that's part of getting to know you guys and knowing, you know, what we can talk about and kind of, you know, kind of our vibe.
00:28:28
Alexis
And apparently, a lot of people have bought a farm and they don't know what to do with it.
00:28:31
Plant People
yeah And that was a really good discussion.
00:28:32
Brett
Yes.
00:28:33
Plant People
We talked about some of our classic tools.
00:28:34
Jessica
there are lots of people
00:28:35
Plant People
Yeah. I mean, because that that's one of the biggest questions we get is, you know, folks that are new to farming, they're like, well, what's the practicality?
00:28:39
Jessica
um so
00:28:42
Plant People
We have 10-tilibor acres, you know, and then they start from scratch. And that's a common scenario we have. And that's why I enjoyed that discussion so much. And hearing, you know, your guys take Uh, at that time it was, uh, Josh, Brett and Alexis, but hearing everyone's take on things that you need to focus on first when you're answering that question.
00:28:58
Jessica
There are lots of people.
00:29:03
Plant People
So what do I do now that I have a farm and thinking there is so that it was a really great structured discussion. So is the base ground.
00:29:11
Jessica
Oh, that's right.
00:29:12
Alexis
.EDU.
00:29:13
Jessica
I was going to say go through the CCD website, take the work quiz, or I can't say it the best quiz.
00:29:17
Brett
hord mithqui
00:29:18
Alexis
but m quiz It's just fun to say.
00:29:22
Brett
Yeah, see.
00:29:22
Jessica
Yeah.
00:29:22
Alexis
What's number two?
00:29:22
Jessica
Never to. Yeah.
00:29:25
Brett
I somehow closed out. Ray, do you have number two over there?
00:29:27
Alexis
Oh, my gosh.
00:29:29
Plant People
Uh, I think that was, uh, yeah, we are up to number two, how to grow more in less space. The secrets of interplanting and companion planting.
00:29:37
Alexis
and
00:29:39
Jessica
Wow.
00:29:39
Plant People
So ah basically intensive growing in small spaces, sort of a, we talked ah about like raised raised bed garden spaces and interplanting and a lot of the, a lot of the concepts of intensive planning.
00:29:48
Alexis
The nuances, and that was from April of 23, so only about a month after we first got started.
00:29:50
Plant People
Yeah.
00:29:56
Plant People
Yeah.
00:29:56
Brett
Yeah, we hit our stride early it seems.
00:29:58
Alexis
Just downhill from there, baby.
00:29:59
Plant People
We did. But yeah and but that once again, that's a common question we get is ah these intensive gardening or intensive space, small space gardening, all of these things are are super common things that we see on a weekly basis in county offices, especially during like April, May and June, the you know the growing months and the getting started months of growing things.
00:30:19
Alexis
And just like the, uh, I think companion planting, if you're new can be like a super hyped up thing, but kind of being realistic about what that means and what benefits are there versus what people think are there, uh, is an important distinction that hopefully those of you who listen, learn.
00:30:34
Plant People
yeah
00:30:34
Jessica
Right.
00:30:40
Brett
So before before we reveal number one, I wanted to just invite you all to if you had one that we haven't talked about that jumps out in your mind or that you remember that you enjoyed and and really liked.
00:30:41
Plant People
This is a good one.
00:30:53
Brett
Yeah, do you have do you have one and if the answer is no, that's okay.
00:30:59
Alexis
Well, Jessica has less to pick from unless she wants to talk about one she wasn't on.
00:31:00
Brett
I'll go.
00:31:04
Brett
Well, and I'll let I'll give you guys a chance to think and I'll go ahead and share.
00:31:04
Alexis
She just loved.
00:31:07
Alexis
Yeah.
00:31:09
Brett
So mine, which happens to be the very worst performing episode that we have done.
00:31:18
Brett
Is reasons we grow other than money, which was from June 4th, 2023.
00:31:22
Plant People
I enjoyed that one. That was one of my favorites. Yeah.
00:31:25
Brett
Yeah. And when I would not say worst, the gap between first and worst is not like so big that it's, you know, forget about it altogether. But um I just really liked that because it just, I think it is an example of how our podcast is maybe a little bit different.
00:31:25
Alexis
Yeah, that was a good one to record.
00:31:40
Alexis
Mm hmm.
00:31:41
Brett
that we have this range all the way from companion planting and interplanting and soil ah you know organic soil or sorry organic matter soil all the way through to inspiration and folklore and and all that kind of stuff.
00:31:53
Alexis
Mm hmm.
00:31:54
Jessica
Is it on?
00:31:54
Brett
That that range it it and and has underscored to me how much of human activity in life is impacted by plants and our interactions and relationships with them.
00:32:06
Brett
And it was cool because at that point you know this was again three months into us doing the podcast and I think all of you all were a little bit like. What is this idea for this episode like what can we talk about we can just you know should we just talk about like being human with plants and of course now we've leaned in that into that altogether but we were just figuring it out.
00:32:25
Brett
So yeah, absolutely dead last. um And just to add insult to injury, the second to worst was one of the early episodes, Strategies for Pricing Your Hort Crops, which was another one that was featured in stuff that I'm interested in.
00:32:38
Jessica
you I don't...
00:32:40
Plant People
Well, it's probably because we laid in with the term strategies and people were like, no, no, thank you.
00:32:41
Brett
We have fun. Yeah. but
00:32:45
Plant People
No, thank you.
00:32:45
Alexis
out.
00:32:45
Brett
a
00:32:46
Plant People
We are not, we're not here to strategize. We're here for the culture. Maybe that's what it was, Brad.
00:32:50
Brett
we like We like the other people. Shut that Brett guy up.
00:32:53
Jessica
i I don't know my exact favorite one because it's hard for me to think about like how many I've done with you all already. like like Earlier I was like, when did I officially start? Because I did the beekeeping one and I did one with like right after the beekeeping one with you all. and um But just like when I look back at the list, like I don't know why this pops up my head. When we did the like terrarium one, I just remember Brett and that episode being like, wow,
00:33:20
Jessica
You all are like plant, plant people. Like, and I don't know why that sticks out to me that moment when he was just like, like, I realized like, you're just like on a different.
00:33:27
Alexis
It took all those episodes for you to figure that out.
00:33:30
Jessica
Like now that we're on a different level, cause I mean, you're a bonsai master.
00:33:33
Alexis
Just different type of plant people.
00:33:33
Jessica
Like. That is so cool that you are a bonsai master. I had a bonsai once and I killed it instantly. Um, but it was just, I don't know that comment when you were like, you all like really love plants.
00:33:41
Plant People
More of a kamikaze.
00:33:46
Jessica
Cause we just like, yeah, we just said like deep dive and we're like naming off all these things.
00:33:46
Alexis
Oh, plants in general. Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:52
Jessica
And yeah.
00:33:52
Alexis
We're just like na name it and we're, yeah, we're into it.
00:33:52
Plant People
these niche topics,
00:33:55
Brett
I think it's like if it's a plant, you all are going to love it.
00:33:55
Jessica
And I've had other episodes.
00:33:58
Brett
And for me, I'm like, there's some of them that y'all could just keep.
00:33:59
Jessica
Yeah. Yeah. It was like kind of that. I know.
00:34:02
Alexis
No.
00:34:03
Plant People
Poison Ivy and places, we don't like those itches. Yeah, yeah.
00:34:08
Jessica
But I've had, you know, there's been quite a few that I've really enjoyed. And then like other ones, like the Paw Paw one we mentioned, that was like one of the first ones where people were like, Hey, I listened to you on, you know, those podcasts or like firefighters at my husband's station, like said that they had started like listening.
00:34:15
Brett
Oh.
00:34:19
Brett
ah
00:34:27
Jessica
And I was like, Oh, and I was like, well better not talk bad about my husband on here.
00:34:28
Brett
Oh man, that's awesome.
00:34:32
Jessica
like
00:34:33
Alexis
like
00:34:35
Jessica
yeah she
00:34:36
Plant People
People are listening.
00:34:36
Alexis
Trash.
00:34:37
Plant People
People are listening.
00:34:37
Jessica
people are listening.
00:34:37
Brett
Yeah, so do you feel that that do you feel that fame has changed you, Jessica?
00:34:38
Jessica
Yeah.
00:34:42
Jessica
I mean, I do already do local radio. So yeah, for the local area, this is all, you know, boosted me up.
00:34:46
Brett
So you kind of had already made it before we found you late in your career. I gotcha. So we're we're sort of like rejuvenating your career.
00:34:54
Plant People
We're a bid market.
00:34:55
Brett
This is your stuck yeah second I gotcha.
00:34:55
Jessica
Right, right.
00:34:55
Alexis
We're just adding to her, yeah, to her market.
00:34:57
Jessica
yeah
00:35:00
Jessica
To my resume of radio podcasting.
00:35:05
Alexis
I think it's obvious I probably like all of the ah like in-depth production style ones where we get like sciency on
Debunking Plant Myths
00:35:15
Alexis
you. I get really excited about talking about soil and know me.
00:35:18
Jessica
No you don't.
00:35:22
Alexis
And of course like flowers, we have a couple flower focused episodes which are always fun and makes me feel like I know a bunch of things. ah but I think beyond those obvious ones, I like really liked the myth busting one we did where we kind of each came up with, you know, a few myths that we've heard, ah you know, come into the office or we see on social media all the time where people are like, oh, if a bell pepper has four lobes on the bottom, it has no seeds.
00:35:35
Jessica
Oh.
00:35:49
Alexis
And you're like, that's not that's.
00:35:52
Brett
If you if you get water on the leaves of a plant in the sunshine, it will act as a magnifying glass that will blast the laser through it.
00:35:53
Alexis
Mm hmm.
00:35:58
Plant People
burn it up, never going to happen.
00:35:59
Alexis
Yeah.
00:36:00
Brett
Yeah.
00:36:00
Alexis
So, so that was fun.
00:36:01
Jessica
That's a good one.
00:36:02
Alexis
Oh, we're like, if you plan to marry gold, but never, ever.
00:36:03
Jessica
Yeah.
00:36:03
Brett
Hope it doesn't rain during the daytime. Ever.
00:36:08
Alexis
Yeah, that wasn't pre-programmed into nature. Uh, so that one, that one was pretty fun just because we see so many of these and we're like, who came up with this?
00:36:15
Jessica
Alright.
00:36:17
Alexis
Who, what?
00:36:19
Jessica
all the things on Facebook that are just so, it's like, I say that.
00:36:19
Brett
Yeah.
00:36:21
Alexis
the My dev like the ones that my dad will randomly call me he'd be like hey So I saw and I'm like no the answers. No, no, no, no, you you're not doing that.
00:36:29
Jessica
Yeah.
00:36:30
Brett
Let's stop you right there.
00:36:30
Alexis
No Let me stop you right there Yeah, yeah
00:36:32
Jessica
Yeah.
00:36:32
Plant People
but's ah Let's cut this conversation short.
00:36:35
Brett
What about you, Ray?
00:36:36
Plant People
I guess ah not ah not so much a favorite episode, but a favorite type of episode. And it's one you've already mentioned. is it's the And I realize that episodes where we do self-reflections, I really enjoy those.
00:36:49
Plant People
I like episodes where we acknowledge the changing of seasons, you know leaves dropping.
00:36:54
Alexis
Ray wants therapy when he comes here.
00:36:55
Plant People
its I do.
00:36:56
Brett
Yeah.
00:36:56
Jessica
Yeah.
00:36:57
Plant People
I come for the garden therapy.
00:36:57
Brett
Human connection.
00:36:57
Alexis
I'm good with that.
00:36:58
Plant People
I want a therapy garden you know when I retire.
00:37:00
Jessica
You share stories from the yield and days.
00:37:03
Plant People
Ye olden days, yeah.
00:37:03
Alexis
From the 1800s.
00:37:05
Plant People
But I enjoy those, ah even though it's a different sort of thing, it's just sort of not on the opposite end of what Alexis just mentioned, but instead of like conveying a certain subject matter topic, it's more looking inward, ah you know, while we do things, who we are, you know, while we do what we do.
00:37:22
Plant People
sort of reflection pieces in some cases but i really like those and i particularly like all of those episodes whatever episodes we're doing in the fall it's my favorite time of the year uh whatever topic even lawns i know that we don't always have lawn fans on here but even lawn episodes even lawn topic i heard somebody groan i heard that i heard that but no yeah even those but i have clover in
00:37:32
Alexis
pumpkin spice latte season.
00:37:36
Alexis
but
00:37:37
Jessica
Uh That's me
00:37:44
Brett
um I support you Ray.
Cultural Reflections in Horticulture
00:37:48
Plant People
my backyard okay i seeded that in the fall i'm gonna send you
00:37:48
Brett
Yeah.
00:37:48
Alexis
I don't like the other guys.
00:37:50
Jessica
It's fine it's fine it's green
00:37:52
Brett
Yeah.
00:37:52
Plant People
It's not, it's it's white clover, it's pure clover.
00:37:53
Brett
Yeah. yeah
00:37:55
Alexis
Yeah.
00:37:56
Plant People
But yeah, I like the fall topics and the reflection pieces. All the topics are great, whether we're talking about the hardcore econ subject matter stuff, or you know we're talking about you know organic matter deep dives or the reflection pieces, but I tend to like the fall themed topics, yeah.
00:38:12
Brett
Yeah, well, I think you each of each of you all bring this, their shared experience, but there's such a different ah vantage point of how all this stuff works, and and how you interact with it, that I think
00:38:25
Alexis
Mm.
00:38:26
Brett
To me, is really it's really awesome that, like for instance, like Jessica has both the agent perspective, but also has has been doing this farming thing with mixed vegetables as well as as livestock and then entomology background and all the other, and then Alexis being kind of like, I think, just this pure plant person who's like the most passionate about plants, if anyone that I know.
00:38:49
Jessica
yeah
00:38:49
Plant People
Don't call it dirt.
00:38:51
Brett
And then, and then Ray, like, I mean, it I don't choose favorites and you know, you all know how much I love myself just so to say that you might be my favorite hort culture host is really saying, I mean, it's close between me and you, but I'm just teasing.
00:39:00
Jessica
It's
00:39:03
Alexis
honestly fair
00:39:04
Jessica
true.
00:39:04
Plant People
That's honestly a little shocking, but yeah.
00:39:06
Brett
But the the you have had a very Kentucky agricultural life, I feel. like You have these things that you talk about that are just perspectives that I would never have thought of.
00:39:14
Jessica
Mm hmm.
00:39:21
Brett
I've already talked about it many times, but what you introduced me to the term blue side of the mountain was like a formative moment in my life, ah just as a beautiful like experiencing beautiful things in ways of same beautiful things.
00:39:28
Alexis
Fair. It's honestly fair.
00:39:32
Brett
so I don't know, it's just been really fun to work through these, these things together and and share and just have these different, yeah, different human, weird human experiences that we bring together and mash together and call it a podcast.
00:39:45
Plant People
Yeah we have a theme and you know we each have our own culture culture that we you know kind of surrounded us when we grew up and that's one of the absolute coolest things you know no matter where you go.
00:39:56
Alexis
Well, so when you leave a review, make sure you put who your favorite host is.
00:39:56
Brett
So
00:39:59
Brett
Yeah.
00:40:00
Plant People
Oh yeah we'll put us yeah that's right wolf w oh yeah yeah and
00:40:00
Brett
It's Brett with two T's.
00:40:01
Alexis
and one
00:40:03
Brett
Brett with two T's.
00:40:07
Alexis
There's two F's, two, two F's.
00:40:07
Brett
o two Brett with two T's, Wolf with two F's.
00:40:09
Plant People
oh It's hard to compete with a game, with it with a name like Brett Wolf.
00:40:10
Brett
No eating.
00:40:13
Plant People
I'm just going to say that's unfair.
00:40:14
Alexis
Honestly, you know?
00:40:15
Jessica
That's true Leave me alone
00:40:16
Plant People
I mean, we had before, I feel like two names that were so good, they sounded fake. Josh Knight, which superhero status name, and Brett Wolf, another superhero status name. Not fair.
00:40:26
Plant People
How are you going to compete with that?
00:40:27
Brett
when when i When I was a child, someone said, you sound like you were an author. I was like, I'm a child, okay?
00:40:31
Plant People
Yes. like Yes, Virginia Wolf.
00:40:33
Alexis
I am a child.
00:40:33
Brett
A child author.
00:40:35
Plant People
Yes, child author.
00:40:36
Brett
Well, so we got one more left here on here, and I think it's an appropriate connection point for all of us, actually, for different in different ways.
Art and Science in Garden Design
00:40:44
Brett
From January 19th, 2024, almost exactly a year ago, from when we're recording at least, it was garden layout and design.
00:40:56
Brett
And isn't that what we're all really doing here?
00:40:59
Alexis
Has little pieces of all of us in it, that's true.
00:41:01
Jessica
Yep.
00:41:01
Plant People
It's the junction of art and science, and because that is landscaping in a nutshell. You've got the art on one side, the science on the other, and it kind of is that Venn diagram that blends somewhere in the middle, so love it.
00:41:12
Brett
It's the Thomas Jefferson, I am an old man, but I am but a young gardener.
00:41:16
Plant People
The young gardener, yeah, I've got that on my refrigerator, yeah.
00:41:19
Brett
Oh.
00:41:19
Alexis
Oh, Jessica and I throw in like, like a production at you.
00:41:19
Plant People
Love it, love it.
00:41:24
Alexis
We're like, okay, but like, make sure your peppers, make sure tomatoes are trellis.
00:41:26
Plant People
But how are we making money off this?
00:41:26
Jessica
Yes.
00:41:27
Plant People
How are we making them dollars?
00:41:29
Alexis
All right.
00:41:29
Jessica
Yes. Yep.
00:41:30
Alexis
Like that's good.
00:41:31
Jessica
Yep.
00:41:32
Brett
Well, yeah, I think it's been a crazy hundred episodes. Pretty fun. i It has been so much more fun than I even expected. I knew with interacting with you all would be fun, but the actual doing of the podcast and bringing in the guests has been.
00:41:46
Alexis
Fills my bucket.
00:41:47
Brett
Yeah, it's just been awesome.
00:41:48
Jessica
Yeah.
00:41:48
Brett
I like actually look forward to recording and I think it comes across from from all of us. I think we feel that way. It comes across in the in the product.
00:41:55
Plant People
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
00:42:00
Plant People
The radio boy.
00:42:00
Brett
Well, do you have any other any other thoughts about 100 episodes? Anything to...
00:42:05
Plant People
Cheers to 100 more.
00:42:06
Alexis
I what literally was going to say that word for word, right?
00:42:07
Jessica
yeah
00:42:07
Brett
Oh, wow.
00:42:09
Alexis
Like I can't, you took it right out of my brain.
00:42:12
Brett
On second thought, maybe we're hanging out too much.
00:42:12
Jessica
Yeah.
00:42:14
Plant People
Maybe this could be an indicator.
00:42:15
Alexis
um i see I see Brett a lot these days, guys. When we first started this episode, it was like an occasional Brett moment, which was cool, you know? And now I see and talk to him legitimately, I think, every day.
00:42:25
Plant People
Wolf sighting daily.
00:42:27
Jessica
Hey, Lou, right?
00:42:27
Brett
Yeah, which is terrible.
00:42:27
Alexis
that it is it's It's a vibe.
00:42:30
Jessica
Yeah.
00:42:31
Plant People
and
00:42:31
Brett
For her, not for me. For me, it's wonderful. Every day every day is a new blessing.
00:42:35
Plant People
I'm glad you clarified, Brett. That could have went terribly sideways.
00:42:36
Brett
Yeah.
00:42:39
Brett
I was completing her her statement.
00:42:40
Alexis
iron
00:42:41
Plant People
You're filling her bucket or something.
00:42:42
Brett
You think used to get just a little taste, and that was that was good. and It's not something I would want every day.
00:42:47
Alexis
Listen, you all hired me. All right, so.
00:42:49
Brett
Yeah.
00:42:51
Alexis
Well, cool. We hope you enjoy. I mean, I think if you've made it this far to in this type of episode, you probably enjoy hearing from us um because, you know, there wasn't a whole lot of content today other than we think we're great.
00:43:04
Alexis
and We think you all are great. So.
00:43:06
Jessica
reflecting.
00:43:06
Brett
But I do hope, maybe you bookmarked a couple of the episodes that we mentioned to go back and check out because it is easy.
00:43:09
Alexis
Yeah, yeah.
00:43:10
Jessica
Yeah.
00:43:12
Brett
I know it's easy to, you if you don't if you aren't a completionist that wants to start at one and listen all the way through, there might be some in between that are of note for you and yeah, you can go back and check them out.
00:43:14
Alexis
Just start.
00:43:18
Alexis
Mm hmm.
00:43:24
Alexis
There's 99 out there for you.
00:43:24
Plant People
And also there's a lot of good content. And also keep in mind that was mentioned earlier that this is the first time that we are trying ah the addition of the video format over on YouTube.
00:43:36
Plant People
So you just simply go to YouTube and type in hot space culture.
00:43:36
Alexis
Mm hmm.
00:43:41
Alexis
Mm hmm.
00:43:41
Plant People
And it should be the the first hit that comes up. You'll know us by the blue logo. So look for that if you want to put a name with a face and a face with a voice.
00:43:50
Alexis
If you're like me and every time I listen to a podcast, I'm like, what do these people look like? I need to put a face to this voice.
00:43:56
Jessica
So I can picture them, yeah.
00:43:56
Plant People
Yeah.
00:43:57
Alexis
Here you go.
00:43:57
Plant People
Yeah.
00:43:59
Alexis
We don't always look this way. At least I don't. Sometimes I'm a goblin. So that's, that's fun.
00:44:04
Plant People
um Okay.
00:44:04
Brett
I am, I'm always bald.
00:44:07
Jessica
That does not change.
00:44:07
Alexis
And bald boy, singular bald boy is always bald.
00:44:07
Plant People
and I just going to say that.
00:44:07
Brett
Always, always a bald boy.
00:44:10
Alexis
Yes. Yes.
00:44:11
Brett
Sad.
00:44:11
Alexis
That is, that is true. Oh, unfortunately we'll have to have Josh back on with a video so that people can see what he looks like.
00:44:16
Plant People
Yeah.
00:44:17
Alexis
Yeah.
00:44:17
Plant People
The reunion of the ball boys.
00:44:18
Alexis
Boom. Took it from you.
00:44:19
Brett
You just get a picture of him have like over my shoulder, you know, like, ah hu Oh, yeah, it kind of feels a little like, like, like Vladimir Lenin, like ah the leader.
00:44:19
Plant People
Yeah.
00:44:21
Plant People
Perfect.
00:44:21
Jessica
I cut out.
00:44:22
Alexis
Ooh, that can be Jessica's backdrop, just like a giant Josh face, ah a fat head.
00:44:22
Plant People
Just clue the thing.
00:44:25
Jessica
ah cutout poster looking over my shoulder
00:44:28
Plant People
then yeah
00:44:33
Alexis
ah ah All right. Well, we've already talked about leaving us a review. We'd love if you did that. Tell us why you enjoy it. Tell us your favorite episode. Tell us your favorite host and why it's Ray.
00:44:45
Alexis
ah That's all good. You can check us out on Instagram. You can leave us messages there. Always shoot us an email. We put all that down in there in the show notes.
00:44:53
Plant People
Yeah.
00:44:53
Alexis
ah So it's easy for you to click on and you don't have to write it down if your hands are dirty or on a steering wheel because some of you, that is the case.
00:44:55
Plant People
Yeah.
00:45:01
Alexis
Uh, but if you've got some ideas or if you want to be featured, you want to be a guest, you got something to say, let us know. We want to hear from it. Uh, but sorry, I had to swallow there and remember that I was on video and I did a lot of weird hand things just now, but we ah hope you keep listening.
00:45:15
Brett
That was so good. Oh, that was so good.
00:45:19
Jessica
Um,
00:45:21
Alexis
We're thankful for you, true leaves out there. And then we hope you will join us next time. Have a good one.