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.

How are we doing in the effort to reduce tick encounters and the diseases that tick carry

and can transmit to humans?

The results from a multi-year study in Dutchess County, New York,

one of the areas of the United States with the highest rates of Lyme disease,

shed some light on that question. One of the study's directors is here today to talk about the

findings and about her advice for best practices that each of us gardeners can take for personal

protection. More in a moment but first these messages. Underwriting Support from Colorblends, supplying top quality spring blooming Dutch flower

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Programming and underwriting support from Royal Botanic Gardens publishes of cute pocket

books, small gift books illustrated from Cue's vast collection of Botanic Alert.

The most recent book, Fun Guy, about the strange and singular world of mushrooms,

Toadstools, and their kin. In bookstores now.

My guest today to talk TIGS is Dr. Felicia Keasing, a professor of biology at Bard College in

Anandale on Hudson, New York, and one of the two directors of the TIG project

with Dr. Rick Ostfeld of Care Institute of Ecosystem Studies

in Millbrook, New York. Welcome, Felicia. And thank you so much for making time to talk about

this important subject today. Thank you for inviting me. It's a pleasure to be here.

Yeah, I feel like before we get started, I always like to know how people got into what they do.

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