Let’s Go Local: An Ode to the Botanical

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Let’s Go Local: An Ode to the Botanical

(Quinn Nachtrieb • The Student Life) I’m not a big fan of the desert. Don’t get me wrong — I appreciate palm trees and have done my fair share of hiking through barren landscapes. But I’ll always remember the time my family’s car got stuck in a ditch in the middle of Death Valley. That might’ve been the starting point of my general ambivalence toward the wasteland. If given the choice between walking through the Mojave Desert or along the Pacifi…