Helene Updates

Hello everyone! 

This fall season since Helene has been insanely busy. We are super grateful to still be operational through this time and are so lucky to live in such a beautiful loving community with awesome neighbors, friends, and customers. 

 About Helene - We were without power for 17 days  and are still dealing with the problems the tree falling on the house caused. Worse than the house is the forest, where over 100 trees, many being`100+  year oak trees were toppled over and strewn about. Its truly overwhelming to see our once beautiful mature hardwood forest essentially leveled in large areas, and weird to think that we wont live to see the hillside look like that again. The good news is that we intend to fill the gaps in the canopy with other fruit and nut trees and to take this passing of old giants as a way to help regenerate the forest with new food for us and the other creatures that live here  So we will carefully manage and plant and tend the hillside to keep the multiflora rose, tree of heaven, wisteria, and whatever other opportunistic plants may  try to take over.  

Luke will slab up a lot of the  wood for countertops, tables, etc. with the alaskan chainsaw mill, and then we do need to get busy plugging the trees as well, but having a hard time finding the time. 

Speaking of time, I have to get going now.

Don’t forget to eat your mushrooms, and try to count your blessings ,not your problems.

Natalie