I didn’t want to write about Donald Trump’s most recent racist statements, as, to be honest, I didn’t see as how any good would come of it. It was just a week or so ago that we were talking about how he’d told four freshman Congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “crime infested” […]
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The trees of Ypsilanti and how you can do your part to help them on Saturday
For the past several months, I’d been thinking about interviewing someone in City government about the trees that were planted along Cross Street as part of the recent $1 million streetscaping project. (I like trees.) For some reason, though, I’d kept putting it off until yesterday, when, in a fit of late night inspiration, I […]
Posted in Agriculture, Food, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged Arbor Day, Arbor Day Foundation, berries, buckthorn, Casey Dixon, Common Bald Cypress, Corylus Colurna, crabapples, Cross Street, Department of Public Services, Depot Town, DTE, economic development, evil trees, fruit trees, Gilbert Park, Global Warming, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, healthy food access, invasive species, Ivory Silk Japanese Tree Lilac, Jamie Nauta, MDOT, Michigan Works, mind control, nut trees, Park Street, Peninsular Park, pruning, Rachel Blistein, Riverside Park, streetscape, Syringa Reticulata, Taxodium Distichum, Teresa Gillotti, Tilia Cordata, tree of heaven, trees, Turkish Filbert, Ypsi Tree Nursery 23 Comments
Guerilla grafting, and living off the fat of the land in Ypsilanti
A few days ago, I posted something here about a group in San Francisco that has made it their mission to convert non-fruit-bearing trees on public land into ones that bear edible fruit. They call themselves guerilla grafters. I think it’s a great idea, but, some, it would seem, don’t share my enthusiasm for giving […]
Posted in Environment, Food, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged apples, Bacon, Beezy's, Charley Bowers, Doug Skinner, fleshy growths, food security, free food, fruit trees, grafting, grafting bacon onto skin tags, grapes, guerilla grafting, healthy food access, Lisa Bashert, moles, mulberries, Neighborhood Fruit, Now You Tell One, public land, raspberries, rats, silent films, skin tags, surrealism, Sustainable Ypsi, trees, walnuts, Ypsilanti Fertile Ground 23 Comments