Hopefully this patch will yield some delicious blueberries come August!
Later on we were joined by Professor John Rosales, of the Environmental Department, and one of his summer research interns. Wow, how I underestimated just how extensive this landscape is! John gave us a tour of some of the interesting things around the property, including the tree nursery, the trail to the river (now overgrown), and some sculptures created by former SLU students.
St. Lawrence boasts 110 acres of land just at this property, which few students outside of the environmental department know about. The area is used for a combination of ecological restoration projects, a tree nursery, carbon sequestration, energy creation, and of course the garden!
We walked a good portion of the premises and John told us some of his hopes for the future of the area.
The interaction provided me with some new inspiration. This is such an incredible plot of land and, with the right set of ideas and drive, we have a chance to make an real impact depending on the direction we take with the projects.
Current list of projects that Prof. Rosales wrote up for us:
not in any particular order
Mowing: 1. Nursery 2. Trails (to the sculptures and the river)
Sculpture Repair- this includes repairing a stone sculpture that fell during a storm
Making a door for the storage shed
Weeding the red maple beds
Transplant Sugar Maples: now that they're a bit bigger we can move them out of the nursery!
These projects are, of course, in addition to our garden projects. But I look at it as a chance to keep busy with a balance of different jobs rather than a burden of many tasks.
Hopefully on the next nice day I'll add some photos/videos of what the landscape looks like... I'm sure it's bit hard to imagine exactly what I'm talking about.
Until then
-Sheila
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