A Tour Of Pizzo Wholesale Native Plant Nursery

Growing natives everywhere, every country, should've always been a global priority. Good to see,👊🇦🇺

Joey, I don't know if you'll see this or not, but if you do I'd like you to know how thankful I am for what you do. Today I was hanging my head low after hitting a brick wall in college and feeling like I really wasn't seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for my conservation degree, as well as the workloads for STEM degrees. However; I put your videos on and its like I get this completely new energy of "What the fuck am I thinking? I'm learning how to save some of the coolest shit on Earth for a career". You vicariously instill me with the deep appreciation for mother nature that I can't experience 95% of the time unless I'm lucky enough to get out of the classroom and do some fieldwork. You're like God's greatest smack in the face, a wake up call to appreciate things. Thank you.

Director of Fire has to be the coolest job title ever

Even if Pizzo doesn’t want you to do a commercial, you just did one. Thank you!!

As a landscaper, I’ve noticed the uptick in people wanting to incorporate native plants into their yard over the years. If I’m picking plants for someone, I will try my best to at least do a quarter to a half natives. It’s really exciting to see.

I wish that the pay and benefits for restoration workers would go up along with the increased interest. I didn't work for Pizzo, but I did work for a couple other restoration companies in the Chicagoland region of northeast IL over 9+ years (I did work with a number of people over the years who either came from or went to Pizzo as we all went through our churn in the career trying to make a living), and the pay was depressingly low with mediocre benefits no one on those wages could ever afford to actually use. It is a career that demands education, repeated certifications, and is physically grueling with quite a lot of hazards, and you barely earn more than someone working at a Starbucks.

THANK YOU for the reference. I'm going to let Pizzo know you were the guy who steered me to them. I've already made email contact with them. My wholesale order to Pizzo will be entered this week. Thanks so much for everything you do. For sharing your knowledge. For encouraging everyone to create a spot of pollinator friendly ground. FYI: I'm hosting a kid workshop next saturday for native wildflower seed bombs. I'm secretly hoping to create a bunch of guerilla gardeners. lol - Cheers from Nebraska

All of your videos preaching the righteous cause of native plants, especially the Midwest prairie stuff, hits close to my heart. Some of my favorite stuff on YouTube.

Its awesome to hear that sales of native plants are blowing up. Great video, I love this stuff.

Tony: Asks a million questions Evan no matter the question: It depends on the species 😏

Second comment. Yes, Tony is correct about a gateway to nature through teasing the psychoactive properties of plants. I'm old, so back in the day, I was labelled being a bad apple at school. This led to some damage, which led to self medicating when I reached adolescence. Since, grass was very illegal and stigmatizing in the 1980s, I started growing. This led me to want to understand the plant. Which then led me to appreciate the plants all around me. When I was 19, I moved from the country to the city. I did not like it, and it wasn't until I filled my apartment with potted plants, I then knew what I was missing. Nature. Once, for seven years, I had the gift of living in the far north and really embracing the wilderness. Oh, nature not only makes my life better, nature saved my life. Not that long ago, I was on my knees begging the "experts" for relief from my severe depression. I was begging them for ketamine since I had heard it provided temporary relief. But, since the drug had no clinical evidence, I was being denied any real help. So, I said to myself, "Why am I so stupid? Why don't I get some magic mushrooms (which I hadn't had in decades) since they are hallucinogenic just like ketamine." Well, long story short. mushrooms worked for me. I was blown away when I finally met a doctor to discuss ketamine, and he told me that mushrooms were not just anecdotally therapeutic, but were in fact clinically beneficial. It was weird, I showed up at the doctor's office to be fixed, but I wasn't broken anymore. I only showed up because I am a dedicated person and didn't want to miss the appointment. But, I wasn't the only one with their mind blown. The doctor was dumbfounded when I told him how I weaned myself off opioids with no help from a "professional expert'. It's all in your head. Everything is in your head. Nature is beautiful. Nature is ugly. Nature can kill. Nature can save. It's all connected. Abolish everything. peace and love. Have a nice day.

This episode is epic. Lots of seeded thoughts. Tons to learn!

Pizzo Nursery are legends ✌️💚

I love this! You are a legend, I even bought my son who is in horticulture your "kill your lawn" T-shirt! Thank for all you do!

What a treat for Sunday morning! Thank you!

"Interest in native plants is so high we're having trouble finding seeds" Love to hear that from these guys, awesome video, I'd love to work at/run this sorta thing in the northeast by Boston.

Very encouraging to see a botanist who isn't using his knowledge in the production of the ultimate cash crop. The amount of land devoted to lawns in the USA is equivalent to the size of West Virginia. This is a herculean battle to restore the native ecosystem.

My hope is more straight species, less cultivars. If Pizzo is having trouble getting seeds, it gives me hope that people will buy straight species. I planted Maryland Senna by seed, plant is about four inches tall and I’m seeing Sulphur Butterflies for first time in our garden. 💛

Lmaoooooo "that's how you get the kids caring about ecology" ngl that's how I got into morning glory family and then the world of plants opened up from there! ☠️

rogue italian forcing stem nerds to do on the spot improv. it warms my heart