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Margaret’s weekly public-radio show, from Robin Hood Radio in Sharon, CT, the smallest NPR station in the nation. Listen live at 8:30 AM EDT Mondays, to the replay Saturday morning, or stream the podcast anytime.

LISTEN OR SUBSCRIBE FREE: Get the Apple Podcasts version; find it on Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

Browse past interviews below.

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fruitful landscapes: the start of a food forest, with michael judd

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how to grow shallots (+ some late-season succession tips), with k greene

ripening tomatoes—and saving seed, with craig lehoullier

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lost, but not forgotten: plants we once loved, with ken druse

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versatile succulents, indoors and out, with wave hill’s harnek singh

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natives in a formal garden, with stoneleigh’s ethan kauffman

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the garden as healer, with ‘the therapist’s garden’ author erik keller

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editing the start-of-summer garden, with ken druse

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reading the land (with the help of trees), with noah charney

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weed-fighting natives, with ‘wildscape’ author nancy lawson

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growing primula from seed, with ken druse

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dahlias galore, with ceramic artist frances palmer

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the ‘wildscape’ around us, with nancy lawson (‘the humane gardener’)

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making and maintaining meadow gardens, with owen wormser

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diagnosing plant troubles, with the purdue plant doctor

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it’s edimental: the showiest tropical edibles, with marianne willburn

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seeds, cuttings, divisions: making more plants as spring approaches, with ken druse

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‘the hidden company that trees keep,’ with jim nardi

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houseplant tuneups (and some plants to covet), with longwood’s karl gercens

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big perennials, fragrance, foodscaping: declaring some ‘trends,’ with jared barnes

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natural garden design, with benjamin vogt

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ujamaa seeds, ‘vessels of cultural heritage,’ with bonnetta adeeb

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less work, healthier soil: no-dig gardening, with charles dowding

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a world of crazy heirloom cucumbers, with jay tracy of the cucumber shop

'horticultural how-to and woo-woo' with margaret roach, head gardener