From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

If you think that managing invasive plants in a garden is a challenge, imagine that on

a larger scale, a much larger scale, like today's guest faces in the name of supporting native

habitat on nature conservancy land.

From Barbouries and Multi-Flor Rose bushes to the nasty annual grass, called Stiltgrass,

Angela Saroi Patel and her team have faced them all.

More about the thinking that goes into tackling invasive in a moment, but first these messages.

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Angela Saroy Patel is a conservation biologist who serves as steward chip

manager for the nature conservancy in the southern Berkshures of Massachusetts. Her

role there ranges from tackling invasive species which is our topic today to

helping save endangered bog turtles. So welcome Angela and so good to speak to Her role there ranges from tackling invasive species, which is our topic today, to helping

save endangered bog turtles.

So welcome, Angela, and so good to speak to you again.

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