A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 11 – Scott Freeman on Saving Tarboo Creek
Summary: <p style="font-weight: 400;"><img class="alignright wp-image-4323" src="https://i2.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/9781604697940l.jpg?resize=173%2C230&ssl=1" alt="" width="173" height="230">Since I <a href="http://www.robinhoodradio.com/donate.html"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4060" src="https://i1.wp.com/robinhoodradioondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/make-a-donation.jpg?resize=244%2C36&ssl=1" alt="" width="244" height="36"></a>have lived full-time in a rural place the last decade, I find that probably not coincidentally, my reading list tends increasingly toward tales of the natural world. The new book “Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land,” made it to the top of the pile recently and I want to tell you about it, and introduce its author, biologist Scott Freeman.</p> <p>Scott is Principal Lecturer in Biology at the University of Washington and author of various biology textbooks. His latest book is at once a tale of his family’s 17-acre project that involved salmon and reforestation, and tackling invasive species and more, but it’s also about how each of us can engage in a role of stewardship with the earth, and about how to live a more present and engaged life as a citizen of the planet. It’s a tale of ecological restoration, which Scott says “is really just gardening with native plants on a big scale.”</p>
