WFMU: Radio Ravioli with Olivia: Playlist from February 12, 2025

Listener comments!
	9:01pm Listener Bop Monroe: came for the country and bought my own sause!
	9:01pm HyperDose: 🌲🌴so excited for this!🪴🌳
	♥ 9:01pm Deano de los Muertos: 🌳
	♥ 9:02pm Bklyn_Dutch: Hey Olivia! It's ravioli time!
	♥ 9:08pm coelacanth∅: greetings Olivia and Adriene and pastaheads
	♥ 9:08pm joe mulligan: oh trees! when I lived in Bloomfield we had an 80 foot sweetgum tree (the spikey/little sputnik balls) and I raked 50 tall home depot bags full of them every year. must have done 20-40 hours of work every year. when we sold the house, the buyers cut down the tree. I was pretty sad. talk about "phantom limbs", I kind of felt that way, that they shouldn't have done it
	♥ 9:11pm Dan S: "I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." Joyce Kilmer
	9:13pm money&pain: I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. (some jokebook I read in fifth grade)
	9:14pm Katharsis: hellos
	♥ 9:14pm Dan S: ↳ money&pain @9:13 Pretty funny.
	9:14pm Jay Wolf: What is this? My Shazam can’t figure it out. 😂
	9:15pm Listener Bop Monroe: btw greetings from Tannersville DJOlivia. just did quick walkies with Alanna and we got 1/4" invisible snow falling and yes the trees are gorgeous.
	♥ 9:15pm joe mulligan: ↳ Jay Wolf @9:14 Adriene makes her own sound collages.
	9:15pm Jay Wolf: I dig
	♥ 9:17pm brycepunk1: I always loved that line in Salem's Lot where the old guy, when asked if he believes a place can be evil, says "I've seen trees that look like tortured spirits." Cause Ive done a lot of hiking and certainly have seen trees like that.
	♥ 9:18pm Dan S: The urban tree, like the urban human, must be strong to survive.
	♥ 9:18pm joe mulligan: right now in the north bay/north of SF the magnolia and acacia trees are blooming.
	♥ 9:19pm Deano de los Muertos: I sent an email as the show began, feel free to share the photo
	9:19pm money&pain: My town is named Alna - latin plural for Alder trees. We have about a hundred trees to each person
	♥ 9:19pm Dan S: The trees were unclothed, so PG-13. :-)
	♥ 9:19pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ joe mulligan @9:08 I've got a story for you, Joe!
	♥ 9:20pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ brycepunk1 @9:17 So many great lines in that book
	9:20pm money&pain: Sometimes you need more than trees.
	♥ 9:22pm joe mulligan: ↳ Franco Twinkie @9:19 Franco! do tell!
	♥ 9:23pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 9:23pm Bklyn_Dutch: I think about specific trees often. There's a hiking trail in NorCal up in the redwood trees. Those trees are so old and large and beautiful and majestic looking up at them makes your head spill a little. That trail I believe is called Cascade, it's like being in a prehistoric time period. You can only hear the wind rustling the leaves and as you get closer to the Pacific you can hear the breaking waves. Go see it for yourself it is amazing.
	9:23pm herb.nyc: Right, trees live in a community. It was mentioned in hope jahren best seller I read. Wiki sez - Her book Lab Girl (2016) has been praised as both "a personal memoir and a paean to the natural world", a literary fusion of memoir and science writing, and "a compellingly earthy narrative"
	9:24pm Katharsis: I painted plein air landscape for years, winter trees I loved the best
	♥ 9:24pm Ken From Hyde Park: Welcome, Tree City USA — www.arborday.org... 🌳
	♥ 9:25pm Deano de los Muertos: I’d rather be surrounded by trees than people
	♥ 9:25pm coelacanth∅: ↳ joe mulligan @9:08 "prickerballs"! haven't seen one in years.
	♥ 9:25pm joe mulligan: "Redwood trees often grow in circles, called "fairy rings," because they sprout from the roots of a parent tree, creating a circular pattern around the original tree's base, especially when the parent tree dies and new sprouts emerge from its root system, effectively "cloning" themselves and forming a circle of young redwoods; this allows the new trees to benefit from the established root network of the parent tree for nutrients and support."
	♥ 9:27pm coelacanth∅: ↳ joe mulligan @9:25 - as fairy ring mushrooms. from one mycelium
	9:27pm Katharsis: “the island of missing trees’ is told mostly from the perspective of a fig tree.
	♥ 9:28pm joe mulligan: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @9:23 is that Cascade Falls in Marin or farther north?
	♥ 9:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Katharsis @9:24 and i, with photographs. just one reason i Love winter, bare trees.
	♥ 9:28pm joe mulligan: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:25 haha that's them!
	♥ 9:29pm joe mulligan: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:27 oh neet, I didn't know that
	♥ 9:29pm Deano de los Muertos: calls or not, this is turning out amazing so far
	♥ 9:30pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ joe mulligan @9:28 Cascade Falls is behind the town of Mill Valley. The Cascade Train runs from Muir Woods out to Stinson Beach, it's a hike with a lot of changing scenery as it runs around the base of Mt Tam.
	♥ 9:30pm Deano de los Muertos: climbing trees for fun is definitely a memorable period of youth
	♥ 9:31pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @9:30 *Trail not train.
	9:33pm Ashi: Justice for Adriene's dad. get him on survivor!
	♥ 9:34pm coelacanth∅: i believe it's true; as bananas. not trees.
	♥ 9:35pm Deano de los Muertos: Wow! Adriene just reminded me that my dad had built us a tree platform that had to be at least 50 ft up…definitely high enough that no one would dream of jumping into the above-ground pool below
	♥ 9:37pm coelacanth∅: without proper equipment, i pruned 5 very old apple trees a few years ago mostly by climbing to where i needed to cut. they were horribly ignored and had a zillion suckers + rotten branches - so it took weeks. ...weeks of enjoying work.
	9:37pm money&pain: When I was 4 I climbed really high into a pine tree by our house and half way down I ended up hanging from a branch and screaming my head off. My dad came to my rescue.
	9:40pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:37 Oh man. When we moved to this house the small orchard was covered in bittersweet. We spent months cutting them free and uprooting it. Finally raised pigs in the orchard and they uprooted the last of it. And enjoyed the fallen apples.
	9:41pm Wadjet37: You should read the poem “Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials Into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America" by Matthew Olzmann, it’s pretty great
	9:41pm dug: yes. bring on the info
	🍝 ♥ 9:42pm Ike: Given the Survivor player who climbed a rock and fell off and injured himself and got medically evacuated a year or two ago, I wonder if they even let them climb trees anymore. (It was too bad about him, he seemed interestingly chaotic.)
	♥ 9:43pm newton: I had 2 mango trees that I grew from seeds. I have 4 mangoes and made sorbet from then. I planted the seeds flat side up in african violet soil with some rooting hormone to keep fungus away. 2 sprouted and grew over the years to 6 ft in my nyc loft. they are amazing! the seedling sprouts are totally magical looking
	9:44pm money&pain: My son went to a school up the road that practiced place-based education. They were climbing trees constantly. Super good for coordination and spatial awareness, creative problem solving, etc..
	9:44pm Steve in bearsville: Eucalyptus trees burst into flames.
	♥ 9:44pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @9:37 wow, that sounds like this property my sister bought! asiatic bittersweet, wysteria, "tree of heaven" [hell!], poison ivy...and japanese knotweed. it took years...saved many trees, but it was too late for some.
	9:45pm money&pain: ↳ Steve in bearsville @9:44 They were planted originally because they grow fast and they thought they'd be a great lumber source, but the wood splits.
	♥ 9:46pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @9:40 my sister planted indigenous bittersweet to replace some of the invasive one but it couldn't compete, sadly.
	9:47pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:44 Yeah, wysteria and roses are both predacious bastards.
	♥ 9:47pm Bklyn_Dutch: Eucalyptus are not native to CA.
	♥ 9:47pm newton: I have some boxes I made of eucalyptus wood. Really lovely stuff, but very brittle. Full of resin
	9:48pm Katharsis: cool coel, it was a “period” of my work a long time ago. I think about returning to landscape painting however it feels over. now more interested in dancing in the landscape than representing it in paint. landscape painting in part for me was a permission to just stand out in the landscape and stare-like having a dog-I feel like we need to justify standing outside in modern society or people think one is crazy or up to no good.
	♥ 9:48pm coelacanth∅: years ago i was with a florist who brought home eucalyptus for kindling in the woodstove, and yes it violently burst into flame!
	9:48pm Ashi: more tree facts: ginko trees are some of the only plants on earth that refuse to work with subterranean fungal systems, which 99% of all plants do use!
	9:48pm money&pain: She needs to get pigs! They'll root it out.
	♥ 9:48pm newton: here upstate there is a big arboretum down the road from me, the Cary Institute
	♥ 9:49pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @9:47 oh yes, those beautiful wild roses! i have scars from dealing with those!
	♥ 9:49pm Barney Grubbs: eucalyptus also tend to drop large limbs without much notice—classic australian things that want to kill you
	9:50pm herb.nyc: Dislike a tree? Well, the ginkgo gets no respect (hi Rodney!). Because of its smelly fruit
	9:50pm money&pain: Oak trees spread so wide because they are providing shade to conserve whatever moisture falls on their shallow, widely spread roots.
	♥ 9:50pm coelacanth∅: ↳ newton @9:43 nice!
	♥ 9:50pm Deano de los Muertos: Someone talk above Mangrove trees!
	9:51pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:49 A lot of "wild roses" were planted a century or two ago, and will not die
	9:51pm Dan from PEI.: Mostly birch and maple where I am.
	9:52pm herb.nyc: ↳ Ashi @9:48 Refuse? Interesting. Someone should spk to them.
	♥ 9:52pm Bklyn_Dutch: During the El Nino period in CA about twenty years back the winds off the ocean completely crushed a grove of eucalyptus trees and flattened a homeowner's fence. I spent a good ten days cutting all that wood up and building a new fence (it was a job). The woods smells great but you can't burn it in the pot-belly heater.
	♥ 9:53pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Katharsis @9:48 take your time to gaze Lovingly at the world, and pity those who don't understand!
	♥ 9:53pm alanSixº: there was a chestnut tree on a lawn on the street in newark where i lived as a kid and me and my cousins used to get so excited when the chestnuts dropped - we would collect them in bags just to collect them - we didnt do anything with them
	♥ 9:53pm Barney Grubbs: there’s a usda paper on the history of eucalyptus in california—got widely planted in the late 1800s because native hardwood trees were being overharvested www.fs.usda.gov...
	♥ 9:54pm Deano de los Muertos: “Douglas”
	♥ 9:56pm Deano de los Muertos: I wasn’t expecting a blind tree caller, that’s cool
	9:57pm herb.nyc: ↳ alanSixº @9:53 My sis in Peekskill has two chestnut trees, and them nuts are delicious. (I once picked some in Central Park, not tasty at all)
	♥ 9:57pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @9:51 i tried to control them! -'probably stupid of me; but for a few years i'd prune them back and shape them, like a cultivated rose, let them flower then make sure to cut off all the berries as soon as they started to form, so the birds wouldn't spread the seed. but it was impossible to keep up with! duh!
	♥ 9:57pm alanSixº: ↳ herb.nyc @9:57 chestnut trees are their own kind of magic
	🍝 ♥ 9:59pm Ike: Speaking of Survivor, the best version is a foreign rendition, Australian Survivor, which premieres its new season Brains vs. Brawn II in just a few days. Unfortunately it's mysteriously not legally streaming in the U.S., but easily available if you sail the high seas -- arr, matey.
	♥ 10:00pm coelacanth∅: maybe that was a tree calling to say hi
	10:04pm AnotherJon: I've been loving these shows Olivia
	♥ 10:05pm chresti: What wood the tree do?
	10:05pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:57 It sounds like a valiant struggle. I was soft on the roses, but my wife, thankfully, was ruthess.
	♥ 10:06pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 10:06pm chresti: we are trees!
	♥ 10:07pm newton: maybe the car deserved it?
	10:08pm rhinestonedinosaur: hi olivia!!!! <3
	10:10pm wenzo: I 💙🌳
	♥ 10:13pm chresti: Broccoli is a favourite
	♥ 10:13pm alanSixº: the scariest halloween ever in NJ was when there was a rapid ice storm that made all the tree limbs real heavy and the trees were snapping like twigs!
	♥ 10:15pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	10:16pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:15 Very funny!
	10:19pm traven: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:15 That reminds me of the tree that would ""eat" Charlie Brown's kites.
	♥ 10:19pm coelacanth∅: i've read that about the eucalyptus in california. this guy knows.
	10:19pm money&pain: My poor neighbor had a driveway lined with cedars that all fell over in a windstorm a few years ago.
	♥ 10:22pm coelacanth∅: ...in any case it' more than a little obvious that humans obliterating trees as they do will increase every major climate and weather disaster, including wind patterns. when i see a house with no trees near it i feel discomfort, like looking at a raw, irritated skin condition.
	♥ 10:22pm chresti: I love cedar wood
	10:23pm Katharsis: i had ravioli for lunch
	♥ 10:24pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 10:24pm evancuts: Spruce trees are the most popular trees for Cape May Warblers. There's a Spruce at Garret Mt we all call the Cape May Tree -- sometimes there's 4 or 5 in the tree at one time.
	♥ 10:26pm coelacanth∅: ↳ traven @10:19 isn't true that kudzu can grow over 3'/day? ...extremely invasive...and then thy sell it in health food stores for 5-10 bucks for 3 ounces!
	♥ 10:28pm coelacanth∅: kudzu: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 10:29pm coelacanth∅: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:26 (correction: 1'/day)
	10:29pm traven: You may well be right on kudzu being extremely invasive. However, I never knew it's sold in health food stores.
	10:30pm Ashamed: Where do I begin. I guess the beginning is best. It was a bright, beautiful summer day in the early suxties. We were just kids. We're were sitting in our favorite spot in "the woods" talking about our fondness of girls. Two girls in particular. Johnny-Boy reached into his pocket and pulled out a pack of matches. He began striking each match and shaking them out one at a time whilst lamenting his desire for Joan. Then, to our left, we saw a fire break out. Then, further back, we saw another fire break out. We tried to stamp the fire out. We tried. I swear we tried. "The Woods" were no ordinary woods. They were, "Our Woods." This was our playground. This is where we would dream about our adventures defeating evil forces. This is where we would play war. On this day, this was a war between us and the fire that defeated us and destroyed two-thirds of "The Woods." The next day, the owner of the property, whose wife once taught my mom to drive a 3 speed on the column car, asked me why I didn't alert his family of the fire. A fire that came as close as one hundred feet to their house. I shrugged my shoulders defenseless for an explanation as my parents looked on displaying no judgment. Ironically, the owner was a Fire Department Chief / Captain. "The Woods" were destroyed of any magic that it once held. It haunts me from time to time. Now, the property holds two apartment buildings.
	♥ 10:30pm newton: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:29 still, if you plant that you need to be prepared to eat a foot of kudzu a day to keep it controlled
	10:31pm HyperDose: this is intense!
	10:31pm Faye: kudzu starch has a lot of health benefits- I make a drink with it when im sick. it helps your bloodflow get going. You can use it instead of cornstarch which means you can make all your fav unhealthy starchy food healthy >:)
	♥ 10:32pm coelacanth∅: ↳ newton @10:30 nom nom nom!
	10:33pm Faye: you guys do an amazing show btw
	♥ 10:36pm chresti: kudzu root good for quitting booze, purportedly
	10:40pm HyperDose: ↳ Faye @10:31 kudzu fries mmm!
	♥ 10:41pm coelacanth∅: Adriene, maybe they are! ...worrying about what the hell shit we're gonna pull next! (like so many people are right now constantly thinking about those other people)
	10:43pm JEM99: my favorite trees are willow tress
	10:43pm HyperDose: the weepies are pretty cool
	10:44pm Katharsis: wow ashamed what an experience to carry as a young person. hugs
	10:47pm JEM99: love agnes varda
	🍝 ♥ 10:48pm Ike: In NJ, Norvin Green State Forest is cool.
	10:50pm money&pain: ↳ chresti @10:22 My neighbor across the street who turns bowls and other woodworking helped us clear our trees from the drive in exchange for pies to work with. When we bought this house, it had a linen closet lined with cedar to keep the moths away. Sam with the linen closet in our apartment in Greenwood Bk.
	10:51pm money&pain: pieces
	10:52pm wenzo: I heard crystal meth time instead of crystal nap time lol
	♥ 10:52pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ money&pain @10:50 Those used to be pretty common, cedar lined closets for keeping moths off your clothing. I grew up in Bklyn, we had those in our place when I was a kid.
	10:53pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:22 At the same time, and sorry to be a real drag, but the extreme weather is leading people to cut down trees so they won't fall on their houses.
	10:55pm money&pain: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @10:52 People would put their clothes in cedar chests in the summer. too.
	♥ 10:56pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @10:53 i know... it's a sort of vicious cycle
	10:56pm DJ MF: I’m an Eastern Hemlock fan. They grow under the forest canopy and can thrive without a lot of light, which is unique among conifers. They are also under siege from the Hemlock woolly adelgid. We need to care for them. Thanks for the show!
	♥ 10:58pm coelacanth∅: (actually aspirin was originally from white willow bark)
	11:03pm traven: Back in the 1890s a German chemist working for Bayer formulated aspirin. Several months later he also formulated heroin.
	♥ 11:05pm coelacanth∅: ah -that makes sense. magnolia petals are thick...sturdy.
	11:12pm Richard S: One of the most famous trees in the world: en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 11:15pm Spatulator (formerly elwyn5150): IIRC, the cane toads were brought to Queensland to protect the sugar cane crops from some insect. There's currently a TV series on Australian (ABC) called "Eat the Invaders" which is about trying to make invasive species into edible dishes by humans.
	11:16pm Patty: Favorite trees are Linden, Beech Willow and Chewy trees! Going to plant these trees in mt yard-when in Spring is it good to plant trees?
	11:23pm KWilde: When Europeans first arrived in the Eastern US they began clearing the hardwood forests and most of the trees were cut down. Supposedly in the early 18th century a squirrel could travel from what is now Florida to Maine without ever touching the ground
	11:26pm Chris from Brooklyn: All you need maple syrup wise en.m.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 11:30pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Patty @11:16 it depends on the species, and your location. most often it's early spring in the northeast u.s. - often early autumn is also acceptable
	♥ 11:31pm coelacanth∅: i tried to think of a favorite tree, but there're too many! so many different reasons to like a tree
	♥ 11:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: I have a childhood memory of climbing up into a maple tree and sending little seed helicopters spinning to the ground below.
	11:34pm Jon: Yeah he did lol
	11:37pm eric from lake hiawatha: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
	11:37pm nos: The dark woods…….unconsciousness
	11:39pm Antipodean: let's hear some crown shyness talk man
	♥ 11:39pm coelacanth∅: many trees will do it though. -and you can embed something in certain trees (like tamaracks) for it to grow around...
	♥ 11:42pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 11:44pm coelacanth∅: (maybe better) external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	11:52pm ranjit: Thank you for the tree talk!
	♥ 11:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Olivia & Adriene. As they say, I must now make like a tree and leave.
	♥ 11:57pm coelacanth∅: i learned about the ginkgo soon after graduating high school, got a job as a groundskeeper... kept thinking someone was allowing their dog to shit there! until a coworker told me it was the berries
	♥ 12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Olivia! Thanks Adriene!

Radio Ravioli with Olivia: Playlist from February 12, 2025

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Usually the second Wednesday of every month, but pushed back a week because of the fundraising marathon, Adriene joins Olivia for a special open lines show. Each show has a theme, and listeners are invited to call in and share stories. This month, we're talking about home -- what home means to you, homes you've lived in, homes you dream of, and whatever else you think about when you think about home. Join the mix - Call in live during the show at 201-209-9368, or send a voice memo in advance at tourism@wfmu.org.

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Adriene and Olivia guide you in a kind and gentle tour of open minds and open hearts. This month, we're talking about all things related to TREES - trees we remember, special trees, trees as solidarity, trees we've lost, invasive trees, and whatever else you wanna talk about. CALL US AT 201-209-9368 and get on the radio! We're also fielding voice memos for next month's show (pushed to March 19, after the WFMU fundraising marathon) about ideas of home 🏠 - send it to tourism AT wfmu DOT org.

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Listener comments!
	9:01pm Listener Bop Monroe: came for the country and bought my own sause!
	9:01pm HyperDose: 🌲🌴so excited for this!🪴🌳
	♥ 9:01pm Deano de los Muertos: 🌳
	♥ 9:02pm Bklyn_Dutch: Hey Olivia! It's ravioli time!
	♥ 9:08pm coelacanth∅: greetings Olivia and Adriene and pastaheads
	♥ 9:08pm joe mulligan: oh trees! when I lived in Bloomfield we had an 80 foot sweetgum tree (the spikey/little sputnik balls) and I raked 50 tall home depot bags full of them every year. must have done 20-40 hours of work every year. when we sold the house, the buyers cut down the tree. I was pretty sad. talk about "phantom limbs", I kind of felt that way, that they shouldn't have done it
	♥ 9:11pm Dan S: "I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree." Joyce Kilmer
	9:13pm money&pain: I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all. (some jokebook I read in fifth grade)
	9:14pm Katharsis: hellos
	♥ 9:14pm Dan S: ↳ money&pain @9:13 Pretty funny.
	9:14pm Jay Wolf: What is this? My Shazam can’t figure it out. 😂
	9:15pm Listener Bop Monroe: btw greetings from Tannersville DJOlivia. just did quick walkies with Alanna and we got 1/4" invisible snow falling and yes the trees are gorgeous.
	♥ 9:15pm joe mulligan: ↳ Jay Wolf @9:14 Adriene makes her own sound collages.
	9:15pm Jay Wolf: I dig
	♥ 9:17pm brycepunk1: I always loved that line in Salem's Lot where the old guy, when asked if he believes a place can be evil, says "I've seen trees that look like tortured spirits." Cause Ive done a lot of hiking and certainly have seen trees like that.
	♥ 9:18pm Dan S: The urban tree, like the urban human, must be strong to survive.
	♥ 9:18pm joe mulligan: right now in the north bay/north of SF the magnolia and acacia trees are blooming.
	♥ 9:19pm Deano de los Muertos: I sent an email as the show began, feel free to share the photo
	9:19pm money&pain: My town is named Alna - latin plural for Alder trees. We have about a hundred trees to each person
	♥ 9:19pm Dan S: The trees were unclothed, so PG-13. :-)
	♥ 9:19pm Franco Twinkie: ↳ joe mulligan @9:08 I've got a story for you, Joe!
	♥ 9:20pm Deano de los Muertos: ↳ brycepunk1 @9:17 So many great lines in that book
	9:20pm money&pain: Sometimes you need more than trees.
	♥ 9:22pm joe mulligan: ↳ Franco Twinkie @9:19 Franco! do tell!
	♥ 9:23pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 9:23pm Bklyn_Dutch: I think about specific trees often. There's a hiking trail in NorCal up in the redwood trees. Those trees are so old and large and beautiful and majestic looking up at them makes your head spill a little. That trail I believe is called Cascade, it's like being in a prehistoric time period. You can only hear the wind rustling the leaves and as you get closer to the Pacific you can hear the breaking waves. Go see it for yourself it is amazing.
	9:23pm herb.nyc: Right, trees live in a community. It was mentioned in hope jahren best seller I read. Wiki sez - Her book Lab Girl (2016) has been praised as both "a personal memoir and a paean to the natural world", a literary fusion of memoir and science writing, and "a compellingly earthy narrative"
	9:24pm Katharsis: I painted plein air landscape for years, winter trees I loved the best
	♥ 9:24pm Ken From Hyde Park: Welcome, Tree City USA — www.arborday.org... 🌳
	♥ 9:25pm Deano de los Muertos: I’d rather be surrounded by trees than people
	♥ 9:25pm coelacanth∅: ↳ joe mulligan @9:08 "prickerballs"! haven't seen one in years.
	♥ 9:25pm joe mulligan: "Redwood trees often grow in circles, called "fairy rings," because they sprout from the roots of a parent tree, creating a circular pattern around the original tree's base, especially when the parent tree dies and new sprouts emerge from its root system, effectively "cloning" themselves and forming a circle of young redwoods; this allows the new trees to benefit from the established root network of the parent tree for nutrients and support."
	♥ 9:27pm coelacanth∅: ↳ joe mulligan @9:25 - as fairy ring mushrooms. from one mycelium
	9:27pm Katharsis: “the island of missing trees’ is told mostly from the perspective of a fig tree.
	♥ 9:28pm joe mulligan: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @9:23 is that Cascade Falls in Marin or farther north?
	♥ 9:28pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Katharsis @9:24 and i, with photographs. just one reason i Love winter, bare trees.
	♥ 9:28pm joe mulligan: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:25 haha that's them!
	♥ 9:29pm joe mulligan: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:27 oh neet, I didn't know that
	♥ 9:29pm Deano de los Muertos: calls or not, this is turning out amazing so far
	♥ 9:30pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ joe mulligan @9:28 Cascade Falls is behind the town of Mill Valley. The Cascade Train runs from Muir Woods out to Stinson Beach, it's a hike with a lot of changing scenery as it runs around the base of Mt Tam.
	♥ 9:30pm Deano de los Muertos: climbing trees for fun is definitely a memorable period of youth
	♥ 9:31pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @9:30 *Trail not train.
	9:33pm Ashi: Justice for Adriene's dad. get him on survivor!
	♥ 9:34pm coelacanth∅: i believe it's true; as bananas. not trees.
	♥ 9:35pm Deano de los Muertos: Wow! Adriene just reminded me that my dad had built us a tree platform that had to be at least 50 ft up…definitely high enough that no one would dream of jumping into the above-ground pool below
	♥ 9:37pm coelacanth∅: without proper equipment, i pruned 5 very old apple trees a few years ago mostly by climbing to where i needed to cut. they were horribly ignored and had a zillion suckers + rotten branches - so it took weeks. ...weeks of enjoying work.
	9:37pm money&pain: When I was 4 I climbed really high into a pine tree by our house and half way down I ended up hanging from a branch and screaming my head off. My dad came to my rescue.
	9:40pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:37 Oh man. When we moved to this house the small orchard was covered in bittersweet. We spent months cutting them free and uprooting it. Finally raised pigs in the orchard and they uprooted the last of it. And enjoyed the fallen apples.
	9:41pm Wadjet37: You should read the poem “Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials Into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America" by Matthew Olzmann, it’s pretty great
	9:41pm dug: yes. bring on the info
	🍝 ♥ 9:42pm Ike: Given the Survivor player who climbed a rock and fell off and injured himself and got medically evacuated a year or two ago, I wonder if they even let them climb trees anymore. (It was too bad about him, he seemed interestingly chaotic.)
	♥ 9:43pm newton: I had 2 mango trees that I grew from seeds. I have 4 mangoes and made sorbet from then. I planted the seeds flat side up in african violet soil with some rooting hormone to keep fungus away. 2 sprouted and grew over the years to 6 ft in my nyc loft. they are amazing! the seedling sprouts are totally magical looking
	9:44pm money&pain: My son went to a school up the road that practiced place-based education. They were climbing trees constantly. Super good for coordination and spatial awareness, creative problem solving, etc..
	9:44pm Steve in bearsville: Eucalyptus trees burst into flames.
	♥ 9:44pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @9:37 wow, that sounds like this property my sister bought! asiatic bittersweet, wysteria, "tree of heaven" [hell!], poison ivy...and japanese knotweed. it took years...saved many trees, but it was too late for some.
	9:45pm money&pain: ↳ Steve in bearsville @9:44 They were planted originally because they grow fast and they thought they'd be a great lumber source, but the wood splits.
	♥ 9:46pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @9:40 my sister planted indigenous bittersweet to replace some of the invasive one but it couldn't compete, sadly.
	9:47pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:44 Yeah, wysteria and roses are both predacious bastards.
	♥ 9:47pm Bklyn_Dutch: Eucalyptus are not native to CA.
	♥ 9:47pm newton: I have some boxes I made of eucalyptus wood. Really lovely stuff, but very brittle. Full of resin
	9:48pm Katharsis: cool coel, it was a “period” of my work a long time ago. I think about returning to landscape painting however it feels over. now more interested in dancing in the landscape than representing it in paint. landscape painting in part for me was a permission to just stand out in the landscape and stare-like having a dog-I feel like we need to justify standing outside in modern society or people think one is crazy or up to no good.
	♥ 9:48pm coelacanth∅: years ago i was with a florist who brought home eucalyptus for kindling in the woodstove, and yes it violently burst into flame!
	9:48pm Ashi: more tree facts: ginko trees are some of the only plants on earth that refuse to work with subterranean fungal systems, which 99% of all plants do use!
	9:48pm money&pain: She needs to get pigs! They'll root it out.
	♥ 9:48pm newton: here upstate there is a big arboretum down the road from me, the Cary Institute
	♥ 9:49pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @9:47 oh yes, those beautiful wild roses! i have scars from dealing with those!
	♥ 9:49pm Barney Grubbs: eucalyptus also tend to drop large limbs without much notice—classic australian things that want to kill you
	9:50pm herb.nyc: Dislike a tree? Well, the ginkgo gets no respect (hi Rodney!). Because of its smelly fruit
	9:50pm money&pain: Oak trees spread so wide because they are providing shade to conserve whatever moisture falls on their shallow, widely spread roots.
	♥ 9:50pm coelacanth∅: ↳ newton @9:43 nice!
	♥ 9:50pm Deano de los Muertos: Someone talk above Mangrove trees!
	9:51pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:49 A lot of "wild roses" were planted a century or two ago, and will not die
	9:51pm Dan from PEI.: Mostly birch and maple where I am.
	9:52pm herb.nyc: ↳ Ashi @9:48 Refuse? Interesting. Someone should spk to them.
	♥ 9:52pm Bklyn_Dutch: During the El Nino period in CA about twenty years back the winds off the ocean completely crushed a grove of eucalyptus trees and flattened a homeowner's fence. I spent a good ten days cutting all that wood up and building a new fence (it was a job). The woods smells great but you can't burn it in the pot-belly heater.
	♥ 9:53pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Katharsis @9:48 take your time to gaze Lovingly at the world, and pity those who don't understand!
	♥ 9:53pm alanSixº: there was a chestnut tree on a lawn on the street in newark where i lived as a kid and me and my cousins used to get so excited when the chestnuts dropped - we would collect them in bags just to collect them - we didnt do anything with them
	♥ 9:53pm Barney Grubbs: there’s a usda paper on the history of eucalyptus in california—got widely planted in the late 1800s because native hardwood trees were being overharvested www.fs.usda.gov...
	♥ 9:54pm Deano de los Muertos: “Douglas”
	♥ 9:56pm Deano de los Muertos: I wasn’t expecting a blind tree caller, that’s cool
	9:57pm herb.nyc: ↳ alanSixº @9:53 My sis in Peekskill has two chestnut trees, and them nuts are delicious. (I once picked some in Central Park, not tasty at all)
	♥ 9:57pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @9:51 i tried to control them! -'probably stupid of me; but for a few years i'd prune them back and shape them, like a cultivated rose, let them flower then make sure to cut off all the berries as soon as they started to form, so the birds wouldn't spread the seed. but it was impossible to keep up with! duh!
	♥ 9:57pm alanSixº: ↳ herb.nyc @9:57 chestnut trees are their own kind of magic
	🍝 ♥ 9:59pm Ike: Speaking of Survivor, the best version is a foreign rendition, Australian Survivor, which premieres its new season Brains vs. Brawn II in just a few days. Unfortunately it's mysteriously not legally streaming in the U.S., but easily available if you sail the high seas -- arr, matey.
	♥ 10:00pm coelacanth∅: maybe that was a tree calling to say hi
	10:04pm AnotherJon: I've been loving these shows Olivia
	♥ 10:05pm chresti: What wood the tree do?
	10:05pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @9:57 It sounds like a valiant struggle. I was soft on the roses, but my wife, thankfully, was ruthess.
	♥ 10:06pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 10:06pm chresti: we are trees!
	♥ 10:07pm newton: maybe the car deserved it?
	10:08pm rhinestonedinosaur: hi olivia!!!! <3
	10:10pm wenzo: I 💙🌳
	♥ 10:13pm chresti: Broccoli is a favourite
	♥ 10:13pm alanSixº: the scariest halloween ever in NJ was when there was a rapid ice storm that made all the tree limbs real heavy and the trees were snapping like twigs!
	♥ 10:15pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	10:16pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:15 Very funny!
	10:19pm traven: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:15 That reminds me of the tree that would ""eat" Charlie Brown's kites.
	♥ 10:19pm coelacanth∅: i've read that about the eucalyptus in california. this guy knows.
	10:19pm money&pain: My poor neighbor had a driveway lined with cedars that all fell over in a windstorm a few years ago.
	♥ 10:22pm coelacanth∅: ...in any case it' more than a little obvious that humans obliterating trees as they do will increase every major climate and weather disaster, including wind patterns. when i see a house with no trees near it i feel discomfort, like looking at a raw, irritated skin condition.
	♥ 10:22pm chresti: I love cedar wood
	10:23pm Katharsis: i had ravioli for lunch
	♥ 10:24pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 10:24pm evancuts: Spruce trees are the most popular trees for Cape May Warblers. There's a Spruce at Garret Mt we all call the Cape May Tree -- sometimes there's 4 or 5 in the tree at one time.
	♥ 10:26pm coelacanth∅: ↳ traven @10:19 isn't true that kudzu can grow over 3'/day? ...extremely invasive...and then thy sell it in health food stores for 5-10 bucks for 3 ounces!
	♥ 10:28pm coelacanth∅: kudzu: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 10:29pm coelacanth∅: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:26 (correction: 1'/day)
	10:29pm traven: You may well be right on kudzu being extremely invasive. However, I never knew it's sold in health food stores.
	10:30pm Ashamed: Where do I begin. I guess the beginning is best. It was a bright, beautiful summer day in the early suxties. We were just kids. We're were sitting in our favorite spot in "the woods" talking about our fondness of girls. Two girls in particular. Johnny-Boy reached into his pocket and pulled out a pack of matches. He began striking each match and shaking them out one at a time whilst lamenting his desire for Joan. Then, to our left, we saw a fire break out. Then, further back, we saw another fire break out. We tried to stamp the fire out. We tried. I swear we tried. "The Woods" were no ordinary woods. They were, "Our Woods." This was our playground. This is where we would dream about our adventures defeating evil forces. This is where we would play war. On this day, this was a war between us and the fire that defeated us and destroyed two-thirds of "The Woods." The next day, the owner of the property, whose wife once taught my mom to drive a 3 speed on the column car, asked me why I didn't alert his family of the fire. A fire that came as close as one hundred feet to their house. I shrugged my shoulders defenseless for an explanation as my parents looked on displaying no judgment. Ironically, the owner was a Fire Department Chief / Captain. "The Woods" were destroyed of any magic that it once held. It haunts me from time to time. Now, the property holds two apartment buildings.
	♥ 10:30pm newton: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:29 still, if you plant that you need to be prepared to eat a foot of kudzu a day to keep it controlled
	10:31pm HyperDose: this is intense!
	10:31pm Faye: kudzu starch has a lot of health benefits- I make a drink with it when im sick. it helps your bloodflow get going. You can use it instead of cornstarch which means you can make all your fav unhealthy starchy food healthy >:)
	♥ 10:32pm coelacanth∅: ↳ newton @10:30 nom nom nom!
	10:33pm Faye: you guys do an amazing show btw
	♥ 10:36pm chresti: kudzu root good for quitting booze, purportedly
	10:40pm HyperDose: ↳ Faye @10:31 kudzu fries mmm!
	♥ 10:41pm coelacanth∅: Adriene, maybe they are! ...worrying about what the hell shit we're gonna pull next! (like so many people are right now constantly thinking about those other people)
	10:43pm JEM99: my favorite trees are willow tress
	10:43pm HyperDose: the weepies are pretty cool
	10:44pm Katharsis: wow ashamed what an experience to carry as a young person. hugs
	10:47pm JEM99: love agnes varda
	🍝 ♥ 10:48pm Ike: In NJ, Norvin Green State Forest is cool.
	10:50pm money&pain: ↳ chresti @10:22 My neighbor across the street who turns bowls and other woodworking helped us clear our trees from the drive in exchange for pies to work with. When we bought this house, it had a linen closet lined with cedar to keep the moths away. Sam with the linen closet in our apartment in Greenwood Bk.
	10:51pm money&pain: pieces
	10:52pm wenzo: I heard crystal meth time instead of crystal nap time lol
	♥ 10:52pm Bklyn_Dutch: ↳ money&pain @10:50 Those used to be pretty common, cedar lined closets for keeping moths off your clothing. I grew up in Bklyn, we had those in our place when I was a kid.
	10:53pm money&pain: ↳ coelacanth∅ @10:22 At the same time, and sorry to be a real drag, but the extreme weather is leading people to cut down trees so they won't fall on their houses.
	10:55pm money&pain: ↳ Bklyn_Dutch @10:52 People would put their clothes in cedar chests in the summer. too.
	♥ 10:56pm coelacanth∅: ↳ money&pain @10:53 i know... it's a sort of vicious cycle
	10:56pm DJ MF: I’m an Eastern Hemlock fan. They grow under the forest canopy and can thrive without a lot of light, which is unique among conifers. They are also under siege from the Hemlock woolly adelgid. We need to care for them. Thanks for the show!
	♥ 10:58pm coelacanth∅: (actually aspirin was originally from white willow bark)
	11:03pm traven: Back in the 1890s a German chemist working for Bayer formulated aspirin. Several months later he also formulated heroin.
	♥ 11:05pm coelacanth∅: ah -that makes sense. magnolia petals are thick...sturdy.
	11:12pm Richard S: One of the most famous trees in the world: en.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 11:15pm Spatulator (formerly elwyn5150): IIRC, the cane toads were brought to Queensland to protect the sugar cane crops from some insect. There's currently a TV series on Australian (ABC) called "Eat the Invaders" which is about trying to make invasive species into edible dishes by humans.
	11:16pm Patty: Favorite trees are Linden, Beech Willow and Chewy trees! Going to plant these trees in mt yard-when in Spring is it good to plant trees?
	11:23pm KWilde: When Europeans first arrived in the Eastern US they began clearing the hardwood forests and most of the trees were cut down. Supposedly in the early 18th century a squirrel could travel from what is now Florida to Maine without ever touching the ground
	11:26pm Chris from Brooklyn: All you need maple syrup wise en.m.wikipedia.org...
	♥ 11:30pm coelacanth∅: ↳ Patty @11:16 it depends on the species, and your location. most often it's early spring in the northeast u.s. - often early autumn is also acceptable
	♥ 11:31pm coelacanth∅: i tried to think of a favorite tree, but there're too many! so many different reasons to like a tree
	♥ 11:32pm Ken From Hyde Park: I have a childhood memory of climbing up into a maple tree and sending little seed helicopters spinning to the ground below.
	11:34pm Jon: Yeah he did lol
	11:37pm eric from lake hiawatha: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
	11:37pm nos: The dark woods…….unconsciousness
	11:39pm Antipodean: let's hear some crown shyness talk man
	♥ 11:39pm coelacanth∅: many trees will do it though. -and you can embed something in certain trees (like tamaracks) for it to grow around...
	♥ 11:42pm coelacanth∅: external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	♥ 11:44pm coelacanth∅: (maybe better) external-content.duckduckgo.com...
	11:52pm ranjit: Thank you for the tree talk!
	♥ 11:57pm Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Olivia & Adriene. As they say, I must now make like a tree and leave.
	♥ 11:57pm coelacanth∅: i learned about the ginkgo soon after graduating high school, got a job as a groundskeeper... kept thinking someone was allowing their dog to shit there! until a coworker told me it was the berries
	♥ 12:00am coelacanth∅: Thanks Olivia! Thanks Adriene!

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