Eco Adventures with 'The Bad Naturalist' - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - May 26, 2025

Again and again, as I was reading the recent book “Bad Naturalist” by Paula Whyman, I kept thinking: Good thing I only have a couple of acres of land. Whyman tackled 200 acres on a Virginia mountaintop, dreaming of reshaping it, she writes, into “a native plant paradise, a model of conservation, a meadow that would inspire Julie Andrews to break into song.”  But the natural world often has other things in mind than the ones on our to-do list, doesn’t it? On any scale, learning all the lessons nature delivers—lessons like ones about invasive plants, or about the unstoppable... Read More ›