From AwayToGarden.com and RobinhoodRadio.com, this is AwayToGarden with Margaret Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

My how times have changed.

That's what I keep thinking looking around my own garden in recent years.

And I've been struck by the same thought over and over as I read

the Comfort of Crows, a backyard year, the latest book by Margaret Renkel that takes us through

a year in her garden, 1,000 miles to the south of mine in Nashville. The what happens when of nature

is all shifting in the face of environmental change and how we each garden has shifted to for Margaret

Renkel and for me and maybe for you as well toward more native plants and messier fall

clean up and other contributions we can make to our beloved birds and the rest of the natural

world that's increasingly under pressure. More in a moment but first these messages.

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Like many readers I got to know Margaret Rankle in 2019 upon the publication of her much praised book, Late Migrations.

Since 2017 she has been contributing a popular

weekly opinion column to the New York Times each Monday, which the newspaper describes as covering

Flora, Fauna, Politics, and Culture in the American South. Margaret Rankle and I will be doing a

webinar together about her new book and about our gardens on the evening of November 7. I'll give

more information about signing up for that over on awayaitagarden.com with the transcript of this show where you can also enter to win a copy

of a Comfort of Crows for Latest. Welcome back to the podcast, Other Margaret, Southern Margaret.

How are you? It's amazing how often we're confused for each other. I'm not entirely sure why,

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