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.

Today's guest says you can tell a lot about a tree by the company it keeps.

From unseen microbes to fungi, countless insects and other arthropods to vertebrates like birds, squirrels,

and even porcophines.

From life in the soil around their roots to the action up in their canopies, trees are

swarming with engagement, and their diverse community of companions is our topic today,

so more in a moment but first these messages.

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programming and underwriting support from high mowing organic seeds and offering 100% organic vegetable flower and herb seeds for that farm and garden available at highmoincedes.com. Dr. James Narady is a research scientist

in the School of Integrative Biology

at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Champaign.

And he's the author and illustrator

of several previous books.

His latest is The Hidden Company that Trees Keep,

Life from Tree Topps to Root Tips.

And I'm happy he's joined us to talk about it today.

Hi, Jim, how are you?

Oh fine, thank you for having me Margaret. Yes, congratulations on the book and I

should say we'll have a giveaway of a copy with the transcript of this show over

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