Three years ago, my family and I planted in our back yard five fruit-bearing trees: cherry, peach, apple, sugar plum, plum, and asian pear. Three years have passed since, and we have been blessed with an abundant harvest of fruit! The trees mature within three years of their planting and bear ambrosial fruit once mature. Delicious!
How Parsley Saved The Farm is a story about an adventurous young woodchuck, named Parsley, and Violet, Farmer Kate's daughter. The conservation behind the story deals with the importance of small farms in our communities.
Learn more about blueberries and their benefits! This summer, I had the unique opportunity to visit one of Snohomish County's (located in Washington, US) blue gems. As the cities and industrialization starts to eat away at our farmland and family run, reliable farms, these precious farms become harder to find.
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.
Mountain Laurel In Native Habitat
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 8:17PM 
