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Sep 15, 2025 10 min

Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard - Tree Passages

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Welcome, listeners, to Tree Book Passages, a podcast and shop featuring books about trees. We are Doug Still, arborist and host of This Old Tree podcast and Georgia Silvera Seamans, a lapsed arborist and host of the Your Bird Story podcast. In this episode, Doug and Georgia discuss their favorite passages from Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, a national bestseller, by Suzanne Simard. In a nutshell Finding the Mother Tree is about large trees that serve as hubs for vast, below-ground fungal networks of mycorrhizae. If you like what you heard, you can purchase Finding the Mother Tree on our Bookshop page. We use affiliate links. 10% of your purchase goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores. Visit the book shop: https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookpassages. Don't miss future episodes--Subscribe to Tree Book Passages wherever you get your podcasts. We are also on Youtube.

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