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 message has become increasingly clear by shifting the palette of what we plant

toward native and refining the practices we employ in caring for our landscapes, we

gardeners can make a contribution to the greater ecology.

We can create pieces of functioning habitat that support biodiversity.

We've heard about saying no to vast stretches of monglong and about removing invasives,

and about leaving leaves and fall.

Among many important changes we're urged to make, but we probably don't know

all the nuts and bolts involved in best accomplishing each such updated practice.

Now a new book can help.

Today's guest has written Nature's Action Guide, a sort of workbook detailing all the

how-tos of ecological horticulture needed to get us there.

Not just which key environmentally focused actions to take, but step-by-step checklists

to accomplish each one.

So more in a moment but first these messages.

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