Woodscaping

I attended a day long seminar called Woodscaping at the Bent Creek Experimental Forest where I got an overview of managing your forest lands. It covered a wide range of informative and interesting topics, mostly in a classroom setting so there were not a lot of photo ops. The most interesting was a talk on growing the native medicinal herbs which are in such high demand they are threatened in the wild. I have several species of indigenous populations of these herbs on this land.















What I really learned about Forestry was that it is a lot like Landscape Design. The answer is always, "Well, that Depends."

















Another new experience for me. No it wasn't a meteor, not a bolt of lightning, of which there has been plenty, nor spontaneous human combustion.

















This is all that is left of the small Hemlocks that I cut down, plus plenty of other remnant debris from the grading and clearing and extraneous regular tree debris that I gathered up with the Hemlocks. You can have fires way out here in the country. I will no longer have to have a mountainous pile of rubbish near my driveway, just a fire pit. Another form of Woodscaping.

















I left out my day trip to Highlands NC on Wednesday. I am noticing some cultural fascination with hanging baskets in this part of the world. I'll try to get to that, but company is a comin.