
384-Count Birds with Project FeederWatch
Citizen scientists are key to tracking bird populations in North America and identifying which birds are growing in numbers and range — and which are on the decline. To explain the value of bird count...
26 Sep 202446min

383-Gardening Burnout
Gardening burnout happens when a garden becomes so much more work than you can keep up with and a source of disappointment — one disaster after another — rather than a source of joy. It's the feeling ...
19 Sep 202450min

382-The Tree Collectors: Amy Stewart's Tales of Arboreal Obsessions
Tree collectors come in many different fashions, as author Amy Stewart explores in her new book, "The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession." Amy joins me on the podcast this week to discuss tr...
12 Sep 20241h 4min

381-Simple Garden Design Lessons, with Margaret Roach-Encore Presentation
Margaret Roach is one of those heroes in horticulture and gardening media who I really admire. She excels at communicating her fundamental understanding of the natural world and reminds her readers an...
5 Sep 202459min

380-Monarch Butterflies and Milkweed: A Remarkable Story of Co-evolution-Encore Presentation
The annual monarch butterfly migration south starts this month, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit my conversation with ecologist and evolutionary scientist Dr. Anurag Agrawal, an expert ...
29 Aug 202457min

379-My Audio Garden Journal: Winding Down Summer, Readying for Fall
Periodically, rather than recording a podcast from my studio, I like to get out into my garden and record an audio journal on-site, so I can talk in real time about what I'm seeing, the wins and chall...
22 Aug 202437min

378-The Essential Role of Soil Bacteria in the Garden-Encore Presentation
Soil bacteria perform many essential tasks to enable plant growth, including cycling nutrients and fixing nitrogen. To explain the fascinating things that researchers have discovered about soil bacter...
15 Aug 202447min

377-Plasticulture, AI and More Innovations in Agriculture
Fumigation film and drip tape inaugurated changes in agriculture that made it easier and far more efficient to grow food crops in difficult climates, and now artificial intelligence is bringing about ...
8 Aug 202445min


















