You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover

everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required.

And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner,

Joe Lample.

Hi everybody, it's Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

Show.

With every podcast, I try to find a unique angle brought to the conversation by our

guest for that episode.

And as you know, we interview a lot of authors, books about gardening or soil or composting

or environmental topics related to gardening and horticulture.

But for the most part, our guests are experts in their field, first, who happen to write

a book or more on their areas of authority.

Well today I have a twist on that, and what I think you're really going to enjoy.

I'm interviewing Benjamin Vote, who comes from a writing background.

In fact, he has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska.

Over his career in academia, he's taught dozens of college classes, written poetry collections,

and essays that have appeared in over 60 publications, along with two unpublished memoirs.

All that and much more before he took a completely new direction, starting his company,

Monarch Gardens LLC, a prairie garden design firm, based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

And that's what led him to writing his first published book, A New Garden Ethic, cultivating

defined compassion for an uncertain future.

And no surprise, his second book is already in the works.

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