Hey Better Babes, welcome back to Getting Better. Can you believe? It is April. It is Earth Month.

And on that note, today, we're going to go on a beautiful, gentle journey of understanding the connection between plants and nature and our history in America.

We are traveling all over the place. We're learning all about trees with someone who I love so dearly, Dr. Beronda Montgomery. Now, if that name rings

your ears, you may remember her from 2021 and 2022, where we had her on getting curious. I have not

stopped DMing her about plants and garden questions ever since. I love her so much, but today is

the first day that we're ever meeting in real life. Spoiler alert, I'm starting a rooftop garden on our building in New York. So it's just going to be some pots, but I have a lot of plant questions for Buranda today. So come on the journey. Happy Earth Month, and let's go chat with Beranda. Buranda, welcome to getting better. I am so excited to be here. You can't even imagine.

I have like the chills, but the non-sick chills. I'm just so excited to meet you in real life. I have been waiting for this moment. Because we had you on getting curious in 2022, right? Yes, I think. Well, we did. We did 2021 when the book came out and then did a second one in 2020. Oh, my God. So I think I, so just to catch you guys up, if you, if you were under a rock, we had you on in 2021.

Yes. and then did a second one in 2020. Oh, my God. So I think I, so just to catch you guys up, if you, if you were under a rock, we had you on in 2021.

And we, and we first, I was, I think it was because of my garden and I started interrogating

you about my garden.

And then I think, and then I think you maybe gave me your cell phone number and I was like,

you're going to regret this.

And then I have never regretted it. Thank God. I was... I really like... Because we went through the great squash-bore vine moth tragedy of 2021. I do remember that. It was tragic, but also it was loving to see how loving you were with your plants. But they didn't survive the great squash-bore vine mothing of 2021, 2021 which was devastating yes so basically that if you were

like a follower of my instagram back then you'll remember the great pumpkin patch of 2021 yes my pumpkins

really have never that was my most successful pumpkin year in texas that year that the squash

boar vine moss killed yes never could get him back like that.

I wonder. I had better, I had my best tomatoes last year that I'd ever had. What were really productive was our lufas, which you obviously can't eat. But we gave a lot of sponges. They're fun to watch grow, though. They are so fast. They are. But I do love to eat my food.

I love to eat my plants.

I don't know what farmer watch grow, though. They are so fast. But I do love to eat my food.

I love to eat my plants. I don't know what farmer John fucking cornfield. You're like, you want to grow for food. I do. Yes, yes. What's that about? I don't know. Some people love flowers. Like my mom loved flowers, but my dad was in your camp. It all had to be vegetables and things he could eat. I love flowers too, but I have to worry about my cats.

Because we had the great lily poisoning of 2019.

That's right.

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