Native Plants: Why They’re Important & Where to Get Them

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Welcoming David Mizejewski with the National Wildlife Federation on he podcast this week! In this episode we talk about Native plants and some of the conversation surrounding them. What is a native plant? What is an invasive plant? Connect With David Mizejewski: David Mizejewski is a naturalist, author and television presenter with the National Wildlife Federation. He holds a degree in Human and Natural Ecology from Emory University and has hosted television series on both Animal Planet and NatGeo WILD. He's dedicated to helping others understand and protect the natural world, especially by restoring wildlife habitat where people live—which is the subject of his bestselling garden how-to book “Attracting Birds, Butterflies and Other Backyard Wildlife.” David’s Social Media: Instagram YouTube Twitter Website Linkedin National Wildlife Federation Social Media: Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is Wildlife Week here on the Epic Gardening podcast, my friends.
0:16.6	I am joined today by David, Mr. Juski, who's a naturalist, and he's with the National Wildlife
0:22.4	Federation, who we've spoken to a few folks from the NWF before, but I haven't spoken
0:27.4	to you yet, David, so I'm really excited to have you on the show.
0:30.1	I'm glad to be here.
0:31.7	Yeah, so I found you on the great grow-along event that we both were recently participants
0:36.7	on or presenters on, and I don't know, just I'm always trying to learn more.
0:42.5	We had Dr. Gordon Walker on the show recently about fungi, really dove deep into that, and
0:48.4	I feel like every little piece of knowledge I can get, I round out something I can apply,
0:53.1	to my chosen field of gardening, and so I know we're starting today off with native
0:57.4	plants.
0:58.4	We talk about this a good bit here on the podcast, but everyone brings like their own angle
1:02.3	to it.
1:03.3	Sure.
1:04.3	So I'm curious, what's your take?
1:06.9	Well, first I just want to say what you just described is actually what a naturalist
1:11.7	is.
1:12.7	It's somebody who has an interest in nature, and wants to learn about it, and then kind
1:16.5	of apply it to their own life in some way, and in my case, as a naturalist, my job at
1:22.0	the National Wildlife Federation is to communicate that out to everybody else out there, and hopefully
1:26.0	inspire them to want to get involved in the conservation efforts, not only for wild
1:30.4	animals, but also plants too.
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