Restoring Habitats with Magic Beans
145-year-old beans from the Field's botanical collections are being used today to help restore a local native plant habitat. How does that work? We talked with Robb Telfer - a poet, and a passionat...
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Hey, we're here with Robb in the economic botany collection talking about plants. Robb, what do you do here? I am the Calumet outreach coordinator, and I organize habitat restoration in the Calumet area. It's where you have three or four different ecosystems butting up against each other, all coming together where it's one of the more populous places in our country as well. -So you obviously care a lot about plants. -I do. Plants are a big deal to you. But you're not a trained botanist. -What is your background in? -My background is in performance poetry. Poetry? How did you get interested in plants and conservation? I started gardening and getting into conservation as a necessary extension for what I wanted to do to have action in m...
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Hey, we're here with Robb in the economic botany collection talking about plants. Robb, what do you do here? I am the Calumet outreach coordinator, and I organize habitat restoration in the Calumet area. It's where you have three or four different ecosystems butting up against each other, all coming together where it's one of the more populous places in our country as well. -So you obviously care a lot about plants. -I do. Plants are a big deal to you. But you're not a trained botanist. -What is your background in? -My background is in performance poetry. Poetry? How did you get interested in plants and conservation? I started gardening and getting into conservation as a necessary extension for what I wanted to do to have action in m...
