
Behold the Magic of Warm-Season Grasses
31/12/2025 | 29min
In a conversation recorded in December of 2019 Shannon Currey, a leading educator in the native plants industry, describes how the unique adaptations of warm season grasses make them winners in an era of climate change as well as invaluable in the late summer garden.

How Vermont sculptor Dan Snow has elevated the traditional New England wall into a powerful, locally rooted art form
24/12/2025 | 29min
In a conversation from January of 2021, Dan Snow tells how, using locally sourced stone, he expresses the intrinsic beauty of a site in bold constructions held together only by gravity, friction, and history.

Partnering with Goats to Maintain Biodiversity in Ecological Hotspot
17/12/2025 | 29min
Goats love invasive plants, says Elijah Goodwin, Director of Ecosystem Monitoring at New York's Stone Barns Center; and with careful timing and regulation the Center's herd is restoring ecological balance to its 80-acre campus and hundreds of acres of a famous nature preserve.

Seemingly non-invasive exotic garden plants can be ecological time bombs
10/12/2025 | 29min
Revisiting a conversation from August 2023 with Dr. Bethany Bradley of the University of Massachusetts, who describes how plants introduced from outside our ecosystems may remain quiescent for decades before turning invasive, and how climate change is threatening to explode this threat.

Snagged: How a Dead Tree Can Enrich Your Garden
03/12/2025 | 29min
Wildlife biologist Ken Bevis discusses the many benefits to biodiversity of "snags," standing dead trees, and how to incorporate them safely and aesthetically into our gardens.



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