In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, John Cardina is interviewed on his recent book, Lives of Weeds: Opportunism, Resistance, Folly.

We know where trees grow, but what about ideas? Writer and literary scholar Samantha Walton used to think of research centers as static offices and corridors, hubs for ideas to cluster and sprout. But at the Landhaus, an eco-farm in Bavaria, it is on walks with other fellows where their “thoughts strung out like threads across the paths” they traversed together.