Join Quality Parks Ranger, Mindy Block, to discover how the second proposed Native Plant Center is faring today. How unusual the butterfly effect of chaos theory is.

The Conservation Behind The Story

Some time ago, I started working on a restoration project at Edgwood and I needed native seeds.

At that time I was doing business as Sustaining Systems.  I had just come back from Madison, Wisconsin and I wanted to figure out a way to restore not just a place with native plants, but I wanted to restore people's relationships to the land. I began a restoration project at Edgewood. I grew out thousands of seedlings and planted them at Edgewood.

I worked at the greenhouse in Stony Brook, and I collected the seed locally throughout Long Island's Suffolk County under instruction and guidance from Bob Laskowski. . . .

I also worked with Suffolk County Community College to propose a Native Plant Center, H.R.Talmage & Sons,  Ernst Conservation Seeds, Suffolk County Parks, the NYSDEC, and Hoyt Farm Park preserve.

The lesson I learned was to alter an existing Earth reality means to also consider when is the right time to apply the change. Years later, with shifting conditions, the proposed Native Plant initiative is having a better chance to create that alternative reality.