Mid-Summer from our work at Montpelier with the great folks at Center for Urban Habitats. Rudbeckia is fading a bit but still very beautiful with native warm season grasses coming on. This is from the lower and wetter part of this field. Unlike the upper field we did not get a good burn here. While […]
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From the Heirloom Grain Alliance… https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/opinion/us-grain-industry.html?smid=em-share This blog provides information and commentary that may not represent the views of ACP’s Directors and Advisors
Old friend and colleague Dave Hirschman penned this ode to this tree of our Virginia floodplains a few days ago. Along with Sycamore, and others, it’s a great bookend to our recent post – In Praise of Elymus – where our focus was on the dominant native grasses of these same floodplains. Floodplain restoration in […]
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The Rapidan Institute is focused on East Coast rivers floodplain re-connection and resilience. There are relics remaining of what pre-European floodplain and terraces looked like prior to the advent of industrial agriculture. The Floodplain Savanna appears to be a stable ecosystem configuration of trees and perennial native grasses. Bottlebrush and River Ryes along with River […]
For decades the Mill was a derelict abandoned hulk of concrete visited only by vagrants. A little over a decade ago a father and son from Charlottesville bought the kit and kaboodle – Orange County buildings, dam, and Orange and Culpeper County real estate. They cleaned up the buildings, brought in hydroelectric generating equipment, and […]
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We are now slowly moving into the alignment scoping process at Liberty, Spicers (above), and Madison Mills. The pandemic has slowed our pace but we are nonetheless keeping our foot on the gas thanks to help of our Partners – Fredericksburg Aerial Drone Photography, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, John James Landscape Architect, […]
Years ago I gave a talk at UMass Ecological Landscape Conference showing multi-year soil test results from some of our projects. The results portrayed substantial soil organic matter (SOM) increases from 3-4 years of compost + soil biology inoculants. Lots of discussion about whether its really possible to substantially improve soil chemistry and biology in […]