Hi everybody this is Joe Lample the Joe behind Jill Gardner and welcome to the

Joe Gardner show today I'm speaking with another huge champion of ecological

gardening and horticulture Rebecca Macon it's no accident that Rebecca is our guest today following last week's episode with Dr. Doug Talamy.

Both Doug and Rebecca are two of the strongest and most influential rock-star voices today

advocating for all gardeners to do so in a more ecologically

minded way as we lead into next week's ecological gardening summit with Doug and Rebecca.

And more on that in just a minute.

First, let me back track here slightly for a second.

The term ecological gardening is getting a lot of attention lately,

worldwide, and for good reason.

But if you're not familiar with the term or what it means, simply stated, ecological

gardening is the practice of gardening not just for ourselves but also for all other life.

If you are an organic gardener, you're well on your way, but ecological

gardening goes beyond two of organic gardening's biggest hallmarks, avoiding the use of synthetic

chemicals and building healthy soil.

If you expanded the ecological gardening definition just a bit, you could say that it's

gardening in harmony with nature using natural systems to create and maintain bio-diverse ecosystems that support all life.

Rebecca is in fact an ecological horticulturist, so if anyone gets it, she does.

In her role as director of horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City,

Rebecca used those practices to oversee the creation and successful establishment and

growth of a biodiverse ecological environment which attracted a wide array of

wildlife including some insects and birds that hadn't been seen in the city for over 30 years.

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