A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 6, 2022 – Felicia Keesing on TicksA Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 6, 2022 – Felicia Keesing on Ticks

<p>How are we doing in the effort to reduce tick encounters, and the diseases that ticks carry and can transmit to humans? The results from a multi-year study in Dutchess County, New York, one of the areas in the United States with the highest rates of Lyme disease, shed some light on that question. </p> <p>One of the study’s directors is here today to talk about the findings --- and about her advice for best practices that each of us gardeners can take for personal protection.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p> My guest to talk ticks is <a href="https://www.feliciakeesing.com/">Dr. Felicia Keesing</a>, a professor of biology at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, and one of the two directors of <a href="https://www.caryinstitute.org/science/tick-project">The Tick Project with Dr. Rick Ostfeld of Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.  </a></p>