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A Way To Garden

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margaret roach, head gardener

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meet travis cox, age 17, ‘the garden scout’

YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES: You open your email and have to weed out the invasive solicitations and spam first. [read more…]

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birdnote q&a: nest boxes 101, or which birdhouse?

EVER WONDER ABOUT nest boxes–about which design is best, or where you should place them in the garden to attract [read more…]

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giveaway: 'tiny buddha,' a q&a with lori deschene

LORI DESCHENE, AKA TINY BUDDHA, doesn’t claim to be anybody’s guru, and it was her lack of pretense and big [read more…]

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inspiration: philippe petit's 1974 high-wire act

IAM REMINDED AT THIS ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 of something else: of Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire act that temporarily connected the [read more…]

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september 11, the day jack rescued me

I WAS GOING TO SKIP ANY MENTION of 9/11, not because it’s not on my mind, but it’s tricky: Today [read more…]

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giveaway: 'the memoir project' as a guide to life

HAVING DECIDED TO WRITE MEMOIR FOR A LIVING has its perils. For me, it has some extra-prickly ones, since my [read more…]

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doodle by andre: ousted from the house(ted)

IMUST GO TO MY ROOM, WITHOUT SUPPER OR FURTHER DELAY. Right now—to my room. Which apparently is no longer in [read more…]

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reinventing yourself: a podcast with regina brett

REGINA BRETT IS MANY THINGS: a breast-cancer survivor; a onetime single parent; one of 11 kids who shared a difficult [read more…]

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book giveaway: the soaring work of brad kessler

IAM AFRAID OF FLYING, BUT RIGHT AT HOME WITH BIRDS. So Brad Kessler’s 2006 novel “Birds in Fall,” a story [read more…]

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musical inspiration: on staying 'too long at the fair'

THOUGH A TAD EMBARRASSING TO SAY SO, song lyrics, like other poetry, get pasted up on the fridge or bulletin [read more…]

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Podcast: Soups, Soups & More Soups

I’VE FOLLOWED a vegetarian diet for decades, but it wasn’t until just a few years ago that I mastered a really good vegetable soup. Now I’m learning variations on vegetable-based soups, plus ones with beans and even ideas for mushroom soups, too–all thanks to Alexandra Stafford and these recipes. (Stream it below, read the transcript or subscribe free.)

https://robinhoodradioondemand.com/podcast-player/6211/vegetable-soup-ideas-with-ali-stafford-november-5-a-way-to-garden-with-margaret-roach.mp3

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Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 25 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.

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