From away to garden.com and RobinhoodVideo.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret Roach.

How well do you really know the piece of land on which you live and garden, or the bigger

landscape context it sits within that forms your neighborhood perhaps?

A new book I've been reading called These T Trees Tell a Story, The Art of Reading Landscapes,

takes the reader along on explorations

through a diversity of places,

looking for hints on how to know thy land

as its author Noah Charney suggests.

Noah is an assistant professor of conservation biology

at the University of Maine,

and co-author with Charlie Aysman of the award-winning field guide,

Tracks and Sign

of Insects and other invertebrates, one of my much-used favorites. On the website of the publisher

of Noah's latest book, The Yellow University Press, it describes it as deeply personal masterclass

on how to read a natural landscape and unravel the clues to its unique ecological history.

So I'm glad to welcome Noah

as my guest today and learn more how are you? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Good.

So at you taught a course, I think that kind of this book, the idea of this book kind of derives

from a course that was called, I believe, Field Naturalist, is that correct?

Yeah, that's right.

And in that course every week,

we'd go out to a different site on the landscape

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