Natural Restoration

Did I mention it's been a busy week? I see I completely forgot to even mention the topic of our grounds!!

Last Saturday Jan, a friend of Joanne's, talked to the Vestry about an alternative to the massive (and years-long) landscaping project that has been under consideration. Her suggestion was to restore the grounds to a more natural state, using native vegetation. She'd looked at our property and said it would be good for this.

Some areas would still be some work, especially getting rid of the blackberries (the state weed, very invasive!), and it would take three years before things would really get going on their own, but the end result would look nice and require far less ongoing effort than, say, putting in large expanses of lawn.

The following day after church several of us went to Jan's house to see for ourselves how her restoration project was going. It was quite a tour, seeing and hearing about all these different native plants. I'm sure this will be a big topic in the next regular Vestry meeting.