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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 [...] -
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 [...] -
Nature’s Resolve Discovered-The Real Heart of the Cabbage Palm
I live a fairly simple life, sometimes to the dismay of my wife and family. I get to spend more time in secluded nature than any one person should be allowed and for that I’m grateful. The other day while working in a new area I came across this cabbage palm and for the first [...] -
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 [...]