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Green Getaway
This spring/summer we introduced a 3-part series on sustainability in partnership with Ciel Power LLC and Green Summit NJ: a discussion panel about climate change and the effect on New Jersey’s water supply, an ethical fashion show, and a third event to be announced this fall.
We’d like to keep the conversation and informatio...
Summer of Sustainability
Summer of Sustainability
If you haven’t heard, Reeves-Reed Arboretum has teamed up with Ciel Power LLC and Green Summit NJ for a 3-part series on Sustainability called LOCAL ACTION / GLOBAL IMPACT in an effort to engage, enrich and educate our visitors, guests, members and local community a...
Resilient
On a lovely morning this past April, Dylan Shapiro and I were trying to move some trees that were destined for the hillside above Reeves-Reed Arboretum's fabled Primrose Path. I had rented a miniature walk-behind tractor called a Dingo, and after we loaded the first Avondale cercis onto the bucket, I realized that the Dingo was seriously overmatched. The tree and its substantial rootball weighed at least 300 pounds, probably more, and the Dingo teetered precariously as we crossed the root-rid...
