Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved patch of western Maine woods. What is the biology in humans that explains this deep-in-the-bones pull toward a particular place, and how is it related… Read More ›
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 12 – Garden Designer Susan Morrison
I don’t have a small yard, but I nevertheless sat down with a new book called “The Less Is More Garden” by landscape designer Susan Morrison, and came away with numerous practical ideas for fine-tuning the design of my outdoor… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 5 – Niki Jabbour on Spinach Alternatives
Niki Jabbour‘s adventures with oddball, unexpected edibles began when she grew a 5-foot-long snake gourd intended as an element of Halloween decorations. And then almost accidentally she learned from her Lebanese mother-in-law that young fruits off the vine were also… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Ken Druse Q&A – January 29
You know the routine: I ring up my longtime friend Ken Druse on Skype each month and then we tackle your Urgent Garden Questions—which this time range from growing pansies from seed, to trees in pots, to keeping garden journals… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 22 – Don Tipping on Growing Brassicas
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach: Don Tipping on Growing Brassicas The other day as I was plotting who I could ask for help outsmarting the coming season’s cabbage worms, and coaxing the Brussels sprouts to fatten up on… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 15 – Joseph Tychonievich on Annual Flowers
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach -Joseph Tychonievich on annual flowers Joseph Tychonievich, a garden writer and backyard plant breeder and passionate flower grower, has gone on a bit of a sunflower binge, declaring it his personal Year of… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 2, 2013 – Seed Series Kickoff with John Navazio
Ever-grow an open-pollinated or heirloom variety from seed, only to have it not look or taste like the photo on the packet—or even like the “same” variety when you grew it before? Maybe not your fault. Seeds aren’t like widgets;… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 19 – Craig LeHoullier on the Best Tomatoes
It’s time: time for the A Way to Garden annual winter seed series kickoff, when I virtually shop the catalogs with various expert friends and otherwise talk about seedy stuff, like what to grow and how to grow it, and… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 1, 2018 – Ken Druse Q&A on Shade Gardening
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach-Ken Druse Q&A on Shade Gardening To mark a year of monthly Q&A podcasts together, Ken Druse and I themed our latest conversation to a topic that many listeners ask about, in one way… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 25 – Robin Wall Kimmerer
It was, for me, a serendipity that an acquaintance recommended the book “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer at this particular moment in time as one year closes and another opens. The book’s subtitle is, “Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the… Read More ›