Hi, everybody. This is Joe Lampel, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner Show.

Today, I'm joined by Kate Bradbury, one of the UK's leading voices in wildlife gardening, and the author of a powerful new book that we'll be talking a lot about today.

Its title is One Garden Against the World, In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate.

This is a great book anytime, but I found it to be a perfect book for my summer reading because it's part

memoir, part environmental call to action, and filled with inspiring examples through a year

in Kate's life, of what it means to care for the wild in the face of climate change,

biodiversity loss, and uncertainty.

Through the story of her own tiny 40-foot urban garden,

Kate explores how even the smallest spaces can support life

and how tending to them may also relieve some of our own eco-anxiety.

In this conversation,

Kate and I talk about that very garden, how she turned it into a thriving ecosystem for frogs,

toads, butterflies, hedgehogs, and bees, and what it means to be a wildlife botherer in a rapidly changing world, and why she believed so strongly that community, hope, and small

acts matter more than ever. And if you've ever felt like your little patch of garden couldn't

possibly make a difference, this episode will make you think again. So here's my conversation

with Kate Bradbury. I really enjoyed it, and I think you will too. And as we do, thanks to our

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