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, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner

Show.

We're starting this podcast with your two favorite words, geek alert, and this time,

we're taking it to a new level.

I am so excited to be speaking with Dr. Suzanne Samard, the world's leading forest ecologist.

She's well known for her decades of work on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence.

And through that, she has forever changed how people view trees and their connections

to one another and other living things in the forest.

Her TED Talks on the subject have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide,

and her latest claim to fame and how you may have learned of her is her recent New York

Times bestselling book, Finding the Mother Tree.

If you love a great story, geek out about the underground fungal networks by which trees

communicate and appreciate a champion for old growth trees and diverse forest ecosystems,

you will love this book and our conversation today.

Finding the Mother Tree book brings us into her world, the intimate world of trees, where

Suzanne has studied and documented a complicated interdependent circle of life that forest

or social cooperative creatures connected through the wood-wide web as Nature Magazine

dubbed it in reference to Dr. Samard's scientific findings.

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