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 author, Simon Gumrie writes that we are on the cusp of either destroying

the sweet green earth for revolutionizing the way we understand the rest of animate creation.

It's an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creature,

she adds saying it's a great time to be alive. In 31 books, including her latest The Hawk's Way,

she's made connecting with our fellow creatures for life's work and celebrated those connections.

So more in a moment, but first, these messages.

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Programming and underwriting support from Royal Botanic Gardens, publishers of Q Pocketbooks,

small gift books, illustrated from Q's Vance from Royal Botanic Gardens, publishers of Q Pocket Books, small gift books illustrated from Q's vast collection of

Botanic Alert. The most recent book, Fungai, about the strange and singular

world of mushrooms, toadstools, and their kin. In bookstores now. In her 31 books

for adults and children, Simon Garmory has explored connections to a range of

animals, not just obvious ones like dogs, but from tarantulas to octopuses, pigs

and more. In her just out book The Hawks Way, it's the birds that she calls the Tigers of

the Air, raptors, the birds of prey. I'm so glad to welcome her to the program today. Hi,

Si. Finally, we get to talk. I know. I love this. Thanks so much. Yeah, so before we get started, I'll say that with the transcript of this show over

on A Way to Garden.com, we'll have a book giveaway of your newest book.

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