Cabbage Palm Archive

  • Cabbage Palm’s Pending Obsequies

    Cabbage Palm’s Pending Obsequies

    This is a  poem describing the imminent death by strangler fig of a  particular cabbage palm. This strangle hold of another is what I’m barely surviving, the once symbiotic union that really never was. Soon, only a glimmer of Freedom will exist, I plead then that I may continue to feel the Eagles’ talons, bitterly, I will live as [...]

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  • Blue Bracelet

    Blue Bracelet

    I spotted him leaning on the trunk of a Cabbage Palm just outside of Clewiston.   His backpack cracked by the sun, his beard gray and long.  I slowly drove by to catch a  fleeting glance at his eyes.  Clothes worn, shoes blown out,  his skin hardened, hands formed around thick veins and a faded blue [...]

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  • Cows, Global Warming and the Art of Moodoo Economics

    Cows, Global Warming and the Art of Moodoo Economics

    It is not often that I get a chance to commune with domesticated nature, but during the last few weeks I have been working at a 150 acre cattle ranch removing exotic vegetation out in Okeechobee County.  An unexplainable sense of guilt waifs towards me as I drive into the methane gas abyss.    Circumventing [...]

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  • Cabbage Palm – Nature’s Resolve Revisited

    Cabbage Palm – Nature’s Resolve Revisited

    Dr. Tom Poulson writes in response to an earlier post titled, Nature’s Resolve Discovered-The Real Heart of the Cabbage Palm. “The cabbage palm with almost all of its lower trunk missing is interesting.  Unlike other trees, like oaks, palms grow only from the tip so, if you harvest the “heart” of the palm [...]

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  • Hitching a Ride on a Cabbage Palm

    Hitching a Ride on a Cabbage Palm

    Cabbage Palmetto, Cabbage Palm, Swamp Cabbage, Sabal Palm are all the same name for Florida’s and South Carolina’s State Tree. Each boot or slat that grows around the younger Cabbage Palm is a mini habitat.  As the palm grows older the boots gradually drop off and the trunks become slick. I often stop and look at [...]

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