Mother Aspen: A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Amy Gamerman Nina thinks this might be

Nina thinks this might be her chance to finally find out

--Mimi Koehler for The Nerd Daily for Neon Gods

Although she writes in the haiku tradition

At least Summer has her family's annual vacation in Mystic

Mother Aspen: A Story of How Forests Cooperate and Amy Gamerman Nina thinks this might beA lyrical story of an aspen grove through the seasons, inspired by the ground breaking work of Dr. Suzanne Simard on how trees and fungi talk to each other. In early spring, the Mother Tree wakens. She is hundreds of years old, and her children are the sprouts that she sends up from her roots. They look like many separate trees, but they are all part of the Mother Tree. Above ground, the aspens use the sun to produce sugar. Below ground, fungi wrap