Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast everyone. We are joined again by

Tanya Anderson of Lovely Greens. Amazing blog YouTube channel. She's got a book

coming out earlier in the year 2021. In February, it's called

A Woman's Garden, Grow Beautiful Plants, and Make Useful Things. We've talked about some of those useful

things already. Skin Care, Die, Medicinal Herbs. Today, Tanya, we're taking a little bit of a turn and

talking about gardening for the wildlife, which is also a useful thing. It's just you have to think

about it a little bit differently than the human

centric version that we've talked about in the past. Yes I don't know if you

realize but just recently the weight of human made objects has now surpassed the weight of

all living things on the planet.

Wow.

I think that I didn't know that. just last week for the first time ever and I think that as a meter to show just how much humans have dominated the planet.

I mean that puts it into perspective.

And as an individual, as someone who's growing in a back garden type scenario or an allotment it is

overwhelming to say the least what can we do what can we do to help the environment? I mean we can go out there and we can protest and we can write to our government officials and try to change policy and try to make more wild space.

But what we have right now is a garden that we're already growing things in

that we know that wildlife is going after because we've got slugs and snails,

so we've got deer and birds coming after our crops.

So thinking about our gardens as not only just useful for ourselves,

but also as a haven for wild creatures, I think is also very important.

And it doesn't take that much of a, I guess, of a leap of imagination to see that there should be space in our gardens for wildlife and that

it's a good thing.

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