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Life of the Forest: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

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Life of the Forest: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

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Originally produced by The Green Interview in 2010

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Interview with Diana Beresford-Kroeger, a unique blend of rigorous scientist, reverential philosopher, and Irish bard. She understands profoundly the intertwined life of the forest, from the root fungi that swap carbon among the trees to the sophisticated sexual dance of birds and insects and flowers. Her writing bursts with information, but also with pain and joy and reverence. Beresford-Kroeger, raised in Ireland, now lives with her husband on a 160-acre farm and forest in Merrickville, Ontario where she has planted and observed, over a period of thirty years, more than 6,000 species and varieties of flowers, shrubs and trees, including varieties she has bred specifically to survive in a changing northern climate. She is passionate about the preservation of rare and near-extinct plants and the medicines they provide and strongly advocates the use of "bioplans," aimed at re-foresting cities and rural areas with trees that provide medicinal, environmental and nutritional "ecofunctions." In this Green Interview, Beresford-Kroeger discusses all this and takes on a remarkable botanical journey

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