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.

It was almost two years ago to the day when today's guest, Joan Strossman, less visited

me on the show right around the time her book, Slow Birding was released.

Now as then, I've seen what are pretty much my last migrant warblers of the year move

through the garden, and I'm wondering how long I get to look at the garden's masses

of winterberry holly fruit before the robins and cedar wax wings have at them, and whether

the black bears will let me put up the bird feeders as early as Thanksgiving this year or not

without a run in.

Jonas back today to talk about her newest book, A Companion to the First, called The Slow Birding Journal. So more in a moment, but first these messages.

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Jones Drossman is the author of Slow Burting, The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds

in Your Own Backyard, and now also of the Slow Burting Journal, A Field Guide for Watching

Birds Wherever You Are.

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