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Article: Planting maple trees for posterity.
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 1994
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Not one year passes without my planting a tree. Sometimes it's only a few, sometimes hundreds or even thousands, but never is it none.
Once I was planting several hundred sugar maples when a neighbor stopped by to see what I was doing.
"Do you know how long these take to grow?, he asked, astounded when he saw they were hard maples. "You'll be dead and gone by the time they're worth anything!"
The implication was that because the benefits were so long-term--and maybe even worse, that I wouldn't five to see them much less self them) myself--I was wasting my time.
To me it seemed the antithesis of homesteading ideology. If we don't plant ...