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Gardening from the Roots to the Treetops – Create a Backyard Food Forest!s

Bringing Nature Home, Land Conservation, Native Plants, Permaculture / December 29, 2020

By Christine Maloney Four mature maple trees around my house (two on the south and two on the north) leave only a narrow strip of full sun in the middle to grow my favorite sun-loving garden crops.  To complicate things further, my house and driveway take up the majority of that area in my typical …

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Headless Zombie Oak Haunts Walnut Woods Preserve!

Nature Preserves, Volunteers / December 29, 2020

By Glenn N. Major, Volunteer Preserve Steward at Walnut Woods Nature Preserve Maybe we should rename Walnut Woods to Sleepy Hollow. Long ago, a Red Oak tree at the preserve may have been hit by lightning, resulting in its canopy falling to the forest floor where it sits today, feeding mushrooms and moss. Its branchless, …

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