When I drove through Montana, I stopped at a very low Yellowstone River near the Theodore RooseveltNational park, Which has a Painted Canyon still splashing mudslides of ancient sandstone. Where near-anaerobic slop is produced, horse tail had been edged, drilling its black roots where one would think impossible! No wonder The Equisetum is one of planet Earth’s plants, the original behemoth , one which decomposed into the first-ever organic soils. Episode 16 confirmed a lot of my hunches, not limited to my hopeful expectations of Desert Horticulture. The details are expository I’ll be subscribing to this program and recommending episodes to others. Riddle me this: Even though I’ll be veggie farming in SW Oregon (Ashland) where intolerance to drought comes as a thing of July, what exactly should I try planting considering best feed and provision for caterpillars’ return to diversity. A rare but endemic oak? Is there much use in selecting native plants from a couple states over? We know another specimen to Douglas fir or hucklberry won’t be novel to bringing back our primary herbivores.