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Hartford Gongaware's avatar

This is great. Loved learning about your family's connection to King's Dominion and your childhood experience with the land. We fight invasives here in Rhode Island, where development (and golf) is a bigger threat than corporate farming. A patch of Japanese knotweed infested a full acre+ of my family's place and we are "re-wilding" it with natives, but the process of eliminating the knotweed, which is not unloved by bees and birds, is daunting. It is going to take a lot of love to undo what we have collectively done... but I love reading about people like Ben and Patricia who are doing it.

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Belle Boggs & Beatrice Allen's avatar

Oh wow, Japanese knotweed! I read about that in Slate. We have some brush that's invasive and near the river... It's clearly spreading, and choking out other understory plants, but isn't on our property yet. I like the idea of re-wilding.

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Hartford Gongaware's avatar

see Jeff Vandermeer's Twitter re: rewilding. Knotweed loves riparian areas. Get whatever it is now! the other bad one is phragmites, and that might be worse.

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