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.

Most of us may automatically think monarch after hearing the word milkweed or vice versa,

and that's in fact a critical and intimate relationship, the one between monarch butterflies and native milkweed plants.

But the genus is sleepy as offers sustenance to a wide diversity of animal species beyond just that one beloved insect.

More on the power of milkweeds with the author of a new book about them in just a moment, but first these messages.

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Today's guest is Eric Lee Maider, author of the recent book,

Milkweed Lands, an epic story of one plant, its nature and ecology.

Eric is an ecologist at the Invertibut-focused

Zercy Society, where he is the pollinator

and agricultural biodiversity co-director.

He and his wife also operate Northwest MetaOscopes,

in port towns in Washington, providing regional native seeds

and consultation services for meto-makers.

Eric, I'm so glad to talk again and I've

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