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.

Though the calendar says that spring started on March 20th, the many clues that nature

offers to those who watch and listen add up to a more complex and layered unfolding over time.

Inspired by a new book called Finology, a primer on the why and how of taking sharper notice of what happens when outside,

I'm learning to read nature's signals better and becoming what its author calls an everyday phonologist,

which feels really good and also allows a gardener like me to

share my observations with science.

So more in a moment about why you might want to become an everyday phonologist too, but first

these messages.

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its community science app called Nature's Notebook, has collected more than 40 million

records of phonological data that can help in natural resource management and decision-making,

especially critical in a time of a fast-changing climate.

Teresa is a plant ecologist and an associate professor

at the University of Arizona where the network is based.

And Teresa, I'm so glad to talk to you today.

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