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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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  1. scyzoryk_xyz · · focus · HN ↗
    Watch this guy's YT channel - have been for years now. I think what originally caught my attention on his channel was a video specifically about the flora around run-down Oakland urban-industrial areas.
    1. chao- · · focus · HN ↗
      I think I also first found him from his "guerrilla gardening" work in Oakland. I think it was in a median, planting native species on a barren strip of dirt. Something of that nature.

      His backstory is really one-of-a-kind. If I recall correctly, he got really into botany because he worked for Union Pacific railroad, and while stopping in a city, would go to the library and checkout different botany books.

      1. botanrice · · focus · HN ↗
        I believe I discovered him through that same video! I now tell everyone I know about guerilla gardening lol, haven't got the know-how to do it myself quite yet though. Soon enough.
    2. wiether · · focus · HN ↗
      I discovered it recently, and I find it quite funny

      I'm not really into botany itself, but I enjoy their rants about how people manage "green" spaces

    3. myvoiceismypass · · focus · HN ↗
      His video trip to Berkeley Bowl West was so fucking funny and spot on:

      <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PUFQouwqbe8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PUFQouwqbe8

      (I love BB)

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