# William Bryant Logan

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Talking to Trees, War of the Worlds, Citizen Kane

Talking to Trees Guest: William Bryant Logan, faculty of New York Botanical Gardens, author of multiple books, including his newest, "Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees" The act of pruning trees to both care for them and benefit from them is being lost. Pollarding and other related p…

Nurturing, maintaining and hugging city trees

Trees are more than just ornamental, they provide benefits to all of us. Today, we hear from Hartford City forester Heather Dionne. Tree planting is part of the city’s Climate Stewardship Initiative. We explore the role of trees in Connecticut’s cities. Later, William Bryant Logan, author of Spro…

William Bryant Logan on the Ancient History of Managed Woodlands

William Bryant Logan’s book Sproutlands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees opens the door to a little known history, in which people all over the world, from Norway to Japan to pre-colonial California, managed trees in a way that was beneficial to trees and humans alike.   Logan stumbled upon this …

9. Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca is Spain’s best known and perhaps most beloved poet of the 20th century. Born in 1898, Lorca formed friendships in Madrid with a pleiade of young creators in the 1920s at the Residencia de Estudiantes, al of whom would become very influential in Spanish culture. He was killed …

Episode 101: Pollarding

William Bryant Logan re-joins the Nature Calls: Conversations from the Hudson Valley podcast in a fascinating discussion about pollarding, a pruning practice. Bill is the author of Sprout Lands, Oak, Air, and Dirt, the last of which was made into an award-winning documentary. In addition to being t…

Season Three Recap

Sarah, Meredith, Kim and Lia get together to recap Season Three during this episode of Book Interrupted. The conversation starts with a challenge: Can the Book Interrupted Crew even remember what books were part of Season Three? In addition to talking about Season Three, the girls talk about Seaso…

Off The Shelf Episode 22 - Twilight Interrupted

Hold on to your bookmarks! Book Interrupted is Off The Shelf. We’ve never picked Twilight by Stephanie Meyer as a book pick, but it doesn’t mean Book Interrupted hasn’t discussed it! Sarah is clearly obsessed and it doesn’t take much for the conversations to veer towards Twilight at any given time.…

A Bounty of Berries

This past weekend we hiked up to Marmot Pass. Called by one guide book writer the Champagne Walk of the Olympic Mountains, it is famed for its wildflowers. We were too late for the wildflowers but timed it perfectly for berries. We saw black, red, blue, pruinose, yellow, and orange ones; yummy, mea…

Helen Whybrow

This week we visit with Helen Whybrow at Knoll Farm in Fayston, Vermont.  Helen Whybrow is the author of The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life (Longlisted for the National Book Award & Winner of the Vermont Book Award), A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living and Dead…