Best MARGARET ROACH Podcasts (2024)

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 18, 2024 – ‘WildStory’ Podcast’s Poetry + Plants 27:55

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I was invited recently to be a guest on a podcast called The Wildstory from The Native Plant Society of New Jersey that talks about plants, of course, and ecology … but unlike other garden-related podcasts, it also explores poetry. I was intrigued,... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ep. 130 Sarah Leavitt 32:34

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Sarah Leavitt is a cartoonist and author of the graphic memoir, Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me (2010), and the author of the award-winning historical fiction comic Agnes, Murderess (2019). Sarah is an assistant professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where she has develo…

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov. 11, 2024 – David Sibley on Birds in Winter 29:16

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When cold weather approaches, we humans often have it easy: We can retreat to the shelter of central heating, or pile on more layers of clothing. The path to survival is a lot more complicated for birds, of course, and a new... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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TRC #699: Was Lamarck That Wrong? + What Do Animals See On A TV? 41:24

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When it comes to evolution many focus on what Jean-Baptiste Lamarck got wrong with his model of inheritance. Darren looks at what he got right and considers his discoveries in light of the scientific understanding of the world of his time. Adam, based on first hand anecdotal evidence of many cats and dogs, wonders what pets see when they looking at…

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov 4, 2024 – George Coombs on Trees for the Future 27:34

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In the face of shifting weather patterns influenced by a changing climate, the garden can be a really confusing place these days. What stressors are coming next, and which plants will have the resilience required to stand up to whatever... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Flora & Frost on Solving Garden Mysteries – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 28, 2024 28:06

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The garden is my favorite escape from stress, of course, but as I have confessed before on the podcast, I sometimes succumb to the lure of swiping my way through Instagram during non-garden hours, like so many millions of us... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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TRC #698: Converting Office Space to Housing + Book Review: The Singularity is Nearer 27:39

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Why don't they just convert all of the unused office space to housing? Adam looks at the challenges involved in converting office buildings to residential space. Then Darren gives us a review of Ray Kurzweil's recent book The Singularity Is Nearer.

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Sara Weaner on Lawn Transformation – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 21, 2024 29:19

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Today’s guest, Sara Weaner Cooper, and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long undertook transitioning the front lawn organically from mown grass into a meadow. Sara’s here to tell us about... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Joan Strassmann on a Birding Journal – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oc. 14, 2024 28:36

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It was almost two years ago to the day when today’s guest, Joan Strassmann, last visited me on the show, right around the time her book “Slow Birding” was released. Now, as then, I’ve seen what are pretty much my... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Tim Johnson on Native Seeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 7, 2024 29:22

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When I read the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed to save its region’s most imperiled native plants in a seed... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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TRC #697: Did Hedy Lamarr Invent Wi-Fi? + Name That: Spot the Fake 31:25

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We have some very special guests on this week's episode as TRC alumni Pat and Cristina join us with some great segments. Cristina looks at the truth behind a viral meme that says that famous actress Hedy Lamarr invented Wi-Fi, and gives us some background on this fascinating woman's life. Then Pat delights us with everyone's favourite mostly guessi…

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Daniel Weitoish on Managing Invasives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 30, 2024 28:53

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Increasingly in recent years, my garden “weeds” include more and more tenacious opponents – and the landscape along the roadsides nearby and pretty much everywhere I drive is one of hedgerows formed of a tangle of non-native shrubs and vines.... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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We're from Flatbush Brooklyn 37:33

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Did you hear the Flatbush Brooklyn was just recognized as the Coolest city in the world! That's all we needed to hear this week! So now, we reintroduce ourselves and our Brooklyn origin stories. Join Ed and Joe as they start a discussion on cash (wow! this certainly as aged since it's first release in 2018) and go into the joys, bumps and bruises a…

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Preston Montague on Ecological Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 23, 2024 27:59

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If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbes an a couple of... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ep. 129 Brigit Bins 24:05

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Brigit Binns is a prolific author of cookbooks, with more than 100,000 copies in print, including eleven titles she has authored for Williams Sonoma. She has also co-authored cookbooks, edited cookbooks and written 90 shows for the Food Network series, The Hot Tamales. And now she has turned her attention to memoir. Her new book is titled Rottenkid…

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Jared Rosenbaum on Native Plant Stories – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 16, 2024 28:05

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“Plants tell the story of a place,” says field botanist and native plant nursery owner Jared Rosenbaum. “If you want to be rooted on the earth you live on, you can look to plants to interpret that story.” With his... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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TRC #696: Did Sakana AI Change Its Own Code? + Who is Margaret Hello? 32:11

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Could an AI rewrite its own code? Has it perhaps already done so? Darren looks at the story which suggests that an AI Scientist, developed by Sakana AI, was able to change its own source code. What exactly happened and are you worried enough about it? Then Adam investigates the truth behind a viral claim that we say “hello” on the telephone because…

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– Real Organic Project on Soil-Supporting Advice – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 9, 2024 28:11

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Organic farming and gardening have always been based on the principle of “feed the soil, not the plant.” In a recent interview, I got some expert advice for doing that, and also learn why our diligent soil-consciousness matters so much,... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ep. 128 Caro de Robertis 25:13

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Caro De Robertis, whose pronouns are they/theirs, is a Uruguayan-American author and full tenured professor in the creative writing dept at San Francisco State University. They are the author of five novels and the editor of an award-winning anthology, Radical Hope. Their books have been translated into seventeen languages and have received numerou…

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TRC #695: The Science of Sharknado + Book Review: Invisible Rulers by Renée DiResta 38:08

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After having watched all six Sharknado films Adam decides to do some research into the science of these not at all ridiculous films, uncovering the truth about the plausibility and historical precedent for a tornado filled with living sharks. Darren gives us a book review of Renée DiResta’s Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality, w…

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Ep. 127 Juli Min 28:15

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Writer and novelist Juli Min is the editor-in-chief and fiction editor of the Shanghai Literary Review. Currently a resident of Shanghai, she was born in Seoul, Korea, and raised in New Jersey, and has just published her debut novel. Entitled Shanghailanders, the book is just out from Spiegel and Grau. Listen in as she and I discuss book structure,…

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Ken Druse on Bulb Shopping and Dividing – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 26, 2024 28:51

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Have you done your bulb shopping yet? It’s ordering time—both for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you can only buy now if you hurry, and for the ever-wider assortment of fall-planted, spring-into-summer blooming species. Ken Druse and I both have... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Matt Mattus on Holiday Cactus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 19, 2024 28:43

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I was scrolling through Instagram the other day – yes, sometimes I just cannot help myself – when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cactus. Even though it was still high summer, it made me long for... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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TRC #694: Can Meditation Be Harmful? + Did Cavemen Live in Caves? 33:42

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Could meditation ever be harmful? Darren examines the evidence to determine if meditation, which can have many benefits, might sometimes have a negative impact on people’s lives. Adam looks at the idea of cavemen and wonders if, as their name suggests, that they really spent all that much time in caves.…

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Daniel Weitoish on Extreme Weather – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 12, 2024 28:07

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I suspect I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in a strange land in my own garden—wondering what will bloom when, and when to do... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ep. 126 Deborah Paredez 28:47

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Deborah Paredez is the author of the critical study, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Duke 2009) and the poetry collections, This Side of Skin (Wings Press 2002) and Year of the Dog (BOA 2020). Her poetry, essays, and commentary have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, National Public Radio, Boston…

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Carly Still on Medieval Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 5, 2024 28:14

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When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, are the culinary must-haves: the basil, the parsley, the dill and such. ... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ken Druse on Hydrangea Time – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 29, 2024 28:36

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It’s Hydrangea season, and in the Northeast, in particular, this summer, it’s REALLY been a crazy hydrangea season in 2024, with billows of blue bloom from big-leaf hydrangeas on view everywhere, it seems—which is not always the case, in colder... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Amy Stewart on “The Tree Collectors” – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 22, 2024 28:20

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We’re going to talk about collectibles today, but not the kind you score at a flea market or from an online auction. We’re going to talk about collectible trees. Yes, trees. A new book by Amy Stewart called “The Tree... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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TRC #693: When Is Soap Not Really Soap? + Book Review: Determined 30:49

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What’s the difference between a bar of soap and the stuff we use to clean dishes, laundry and cars, and can you just use any of those in the shower? Adam tries to find out whether the stuff that’s fit for baby ducks if good enough for you skin. Darren gives us a review of Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert Sapolsky, which a…

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Benjamin Vogt on Meadow Making – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 15, 2024 28:26

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Are you thinking about the possibility of transitioning an area of your lawn into something more diverse, like maybe a meadow? A question I’m asked a lot is how to go about it – the actual preparatory steps – so... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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Ep. 125 Rusty Gear 28:22

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Rusty Gear is an Americana recording artist whose work explores the story of the USA and for whom the Qwerty Podcast host, Marion Roach Smith, writes lyrics. In this episode, they explore working together as creatives. What is the nature of good artistic collaboration? How do two writers work together? Listen in as we explore those themes and much …

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Lessons from the High Line – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 8, 2024 29:17

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It’s one of the best-known naturalistic gardens anywhere, and yet it’s perched in the most unnatural spot imaginable, 30 feet high above New York City traffic on an abandoned elevated railway line. The High Line on Manhattan’s West Side is... Read More ›By Margaret Roach

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TRC #692: Cultivating Critical Thinking + Letting Food Cool Before Refrigerating It 37:50

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We look at some fundamental ways of cultivating critical thinking on the latest show. Darren looks at some common cognitive biases and logical fallacies and how to use these in order to have a better more accurate understanding of the truth of the things we face every day. Then Adam looks at the science behind the belief that you should let your le…

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