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The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

303-We Are the ARK: Acts of Restorative Kindness, with Mary Reynolds

The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

Joe Lamp'l

Hobbies, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Those of us who control a patch of land can’t count on there being someplace else for wildlife to find a home. There are too few wild spaces left, so it’s up to each of us to steward our properties in a way that fosters biodiversity. That’s the message shared by my guest this week, gardener, landscape designer and activist Mary Reynolds, the founder of We Are the ARK (Acts of Restorative Kindness).

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0:00.0

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

0:04.2

show.

0:05.2

And as we get started, thanks to Territorial Seed Company for their support of this podcast.

0:09.3

Hey everybody, I have been starting so many seeds this year and my seedlings look the

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0:47.3

Today I have the great pleasure of sharing a conversation I had recently with Mary Reynolds.

0:52.3

If you don't know Mary, she has several claims to fame.

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She's an internationally acclaimed landscape designer born and raised in Ireland where

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she still resides.

1:01.5

Her notoriety in the landscape design world exploded when as a complete unknown Mary

1:06.8

entered and won a gold medal for her garden design at the Royal Horticultural Society's

1:11.7

Chelsea Flowers Show back in 2002.

1:15.5

At the time she was and still is the youngest female designer to ever win a gold medal there.

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Her story was made into a movie in 2016 called Dare to Be Wild and you can still watch

1:26.2

that movie today on Amazon Prime.

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About the same time Mary wrote a best-selling book The Garden Awakening and more recently

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