Reading Your Land With Noah Charney – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 19, 2023

<p>How well do you really know the piece of land on which you live and garden, or the bigger landscape context it sits within—that forms your neighborhood, perhaps? A new book I’ve been reading called “These Trees Tell a Story: The Art of Reading Landscapes” takes the reader along on explorations through a diversity of places, looking for hints on how to “know thy land,” as its author Noah Charney suggests.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Noah is an assistant professor of conservation biology at the University of Maine and coauthor with Charley Eiseman of the award-winning field guide “Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates” – one of my much-used favorites.&nbsp;</p> <p>On the website of the publisher of Noah’s latest book, Yale University Press, it describes it as a “deeply personal master class on how to read a natural landscape and unravel the clues to its unique ecological history.”&nbsp;</p> <p>I’m glad to welcome Noah Charney as my guest today and learn more.&nbsp;</p>