In the Weeds

In the weeds explores how culture shapes our relationship to the natural world through interviews with a wide range of guests, from scientists to artists to cultural critics and theologians.

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Episodes

The Earth's Story with Marcia Bjornerud

I talk with Marcia Bjornerud about her recent book, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World . We discuss how to read rocks (“rocks are not nouns but verbs”), the “developmental novel” in which the Earth is the main character, and the geologist’s perspective on climate change.

Jul 12, 2019•38 min•Ep. 3

Native-Plant Gardening with Carolyn Summers

A companion to the first episode with Doug Tallamy, this episode features Carolyn Summers, landscape architect, adjunct professor at the Native Plant Center at Westchester Community College and author of Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East. She helps us understand how to put Doug Tallamy's call to "Bring Nature Home" into practice. For pictures of the plants we discuss see in-the-weeds.net

Jun 27, 2019•35 min•Ep. 2

Gardening for Wildlife (and Human Life) with Doug Tallamy

Doug Tallamy, Professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, proposes a shift in our suburban gardening culture. To ensure the future of many species, including our own, Tallamy argues we must garden with more native plants to feed insects. For more information see in-the-weeds.net

Jun 14, 2019•34 min•Ep. 1

Introducing In the Weeds

Intro to the upcoming podcast In the Weeds with Nicole Asquith.

Jun 07, 2019•1 min•Ep. 1

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