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EarthX Website: https://earthxmedia.com/   The future could be bright and filled with colorful, native plants! Joey and Al visit the Wolf Road Prairie, a virgin prairie that survived plans to turn it into a suburb, and show how vibrant the local area could look if it wasn't mutilated into a barren desert of lawns.   About Kill Your Lawn:  Best friends Joey and Al set out across America to accomplish their mission: carry out a turficidal killing spree and leave a trail of pollinator-friendly, native plant gardens in their wake. It’s time to laugh our way to a lawn-less future!    This clip comes from Season 2, Episode 5: "Saint of Lost Lawns"    EarthX  Love Our Planet.  The Official Network of Earth Day.    About Us:  At EarthX, we believe our planet is a pretty special place. The people, landscapes, and critters are likely unique to the entire universe, so we consider ourselves lucky to be here. We are committed to protecting the environment by inspiring conservation and sustainability, and our programming along with our range of expert hosts support this mission. We’re glad you’re with us.     EarthX is a media company dedicated to inspiring people to care about the planet. We take an omni channel approach to reach audiences of every age through its robust 24/7 linear channel distributed across cable and FAST outlets, along with dynamic, solution oriented short form content on social and digital platforms. EarthX is home to original series, documentaries and snackable content that offer sustainable solutions to environmental challenges. EarthX is the only network that delivers entertaining and inspiring topics that impact and inspire our lives on climate and sustainability.       EarthX Website: https://earthxmedia.com/    Follow Us:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/earthxtv/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/earthxtv  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/earthxtv      How to watch:   United States:   - Spectrum  - AT&T U-verse (1267)  - DIRECTV (267)  - Philo  - FuboTV  - Plex  - Fire TV    #EarthDay #Environment #Sustainability #Eco-friendly #Conservation #EarthxTV #EarthX

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00:00While the crew gets started, we head over to Wolf Road Prairie to see what these plants

00:06look like in a true prairie setting.

00:09We're here at Wolf Road Prairie, this spot almost got turned into a housing development,

00:13like a suburb in the late 20s, and then the depression hit, thank God, and wiped that

00:19plant off the map, and then they came for it again in the 60s or 70s, they were gonna

00:23turn it into a golf course for a bunch of rich stiffs, and that's when citizens came

00:28together and protected it, and so that's how, that's why we have this little parcel,

00:32this little crumb of habitat left, this is an actual intact virgin prairie and oak savanna.

00:38Specifically in this ecotone between the savanna and prairie, between April and June, in a

00:42single square foot, you can get 226 plants.

00:45These sidewalks, it's almost like the people who were gonna build that sh** in housing

00:49development in the 20s knew that their project was gonna fail, and that people would need

00:53a nice path to come here and enjoy the prairie, so they kind of built this for us, you know?

00:57Look at this, eutrochium purpureum, this is a nice one, see it's, and it's growing in

01:02mostly shade, it gets sprinkled light, but so for a, you know, a yard that's going for

01:07a savanna effect that doesn't have full sun, this is a great plant.

01:09You could get like a Garrison Kewler thing here, you know, no one ever did a little house

01:13in the office park.

01:15Look at this guy, he's taking a nap, he ate so much pollen in there, he's just sleeping.

01:21I ate my way to buona beef.

01:23This is basically the Italian beef stand of the prairie, this one right here, he's got

01:27a couple of to-go bags on his legs, throwing it back there.

01:31You got, you got all our important tall grass prairie grasses right here, this is sorghastrum

01:37natans, and this is andropogon, two really important prairie grasses right here, but

01:43moving on to the showy stuff, you got liatris aspera, see that right there, that's the blazing

01:49star, those pink flowers, the monarchs go bats**t over.

01:53This is prairie dock, they call it, this is sylphium terebinthinaceae, they can get

01:56upwards of like 14 feet tall, this is just like a little sunflower, and then you got

02:00these big basil leaves, that's the most important, that's the most impressive part right here,

02:05is these leaves, I mean it's kind of a drought year this year, so they're not that big, but

02:08I got one, I planted it in my maz, the leaves are like that big.

02:12Leaves are just these giant solar panels collecting all this energy that they can store in those

02:15massive roots.

02:16Joe, why don't you tell me, why is this getting so tall, why is this so big?

02:19Because it's got to out-compete, it's got to get those flowers up above all the other

02:23competition so that they can get pollinated.

02:27We're looking at like 50 species of plants that thrive in these conditions.

02:31This is what a lawn could be, this could be everywhere, high diversity, a lot of cool

02:35insects hanging out, butterflies, such a pleasant alternative to just the barren desert of a

02:40lawn.

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