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.

The time is approaching for my annual pass with the tractor through my little meadow on

the hill above my house.

The one time each year I really intervene in it by mowing. Meadow making is an exercise in patience and restraint,

and in accepting that it has a life of its own, it seems to me.

And I wanted to talk about all that with someone who makes meadows as his profession.

Owen Worms, or whose popular 2020 book,

Lawns Into Meadows, is just out in a new second edition.

So more in a moment, but first these messages.

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Meadows are not an overnight project nor are they something that remains static and unchanging.

Landscape designer Owen Worms, who are of a bound design, is firm based in Western Massachusetts,

is also author of lawns andes, growing a regenerative landscape.

And he's here today to talk about the life of a meadow and its maintenance. Hi, how are you?

Good to talk to you again. Hey, my great. Good to talk to you. And congratulations on the

second edition. Thank you. Yeah, and we'll have a book giveaway with the transcript of the show

over on away to Garden.com. Yeah, we talked when the book first came out and you've won prizes with it and it's gotten

great acclaim, which is wonderful.

We talked then about how to choose plants to make a meadow and I'll give links with

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