Plant Conservation

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening podcast.
0:15.9	Have you ever wondered how we even have the ability to see certain plans, whether it
0:20.8	be at a garden, a botanic garden, a museum, I suppose.
0:25.0	It really all comes down to conservation of the people who do that work.
0:28.2	We have Ari Novi on the show.
0:29.6	He's the president and CEO of the San Diego Botanic Garden, which is at least my local botanic
0:34.0	garden.
0:35.0	I guess this is something I actually don't know a whole lot about the mechanics behind
0:40.0	plant conservation.
0:41.0	I learned a little bit at the house plant exhibit that I went to, but how does it even work?
0:47.2	How would you even know what to conserve?
0:48.9	That's a great question.
0:51.5	I think as botanic gardens and our allied institutions have gotten more into the work of
0:57.2	conservation over the last several hundred years, we didn't know the answers to those
1:01.8	questions either.
1:02.8	At the beginning, it was just to conserve everything.
1:05.6	Some ways you could say botanic gardens started as the attempt for an encyclopedia of
1:10.2	actual living plants or a library of living plants.
1:14.4	We recognize plants are important in our lives.
1:16.4	They bring us food and fiber and fuel and medicine and so much that's important to us.
1:21.4	We better have them at the ready.
1:25.1	After on, as we were continuing in that process, we also then became aware that human activity,
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