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Jul 2022
39m 37s

Say Aloe to My Little Frond

ROMAN MARS
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The history of taking plants that grow naturally in one place, and moving them halfway around the world to an entirely different place with a different, often inhospitable, climate-- and then keeping them alive by growing them in potting soil that we bought at Home Depot. 
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