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Blogger Shereen Hughes November 14th 2023 A year ago, in October 2022, we lost an amazing Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP), Scotty Guinn Dilworth. Scotty practiced what we preach at CCLC. She utilized the Eight Essential Elements of Conservation Landscaping long before becoming a certified CBLP. Scotty designed beautiful conservation landscapes and utilized…
This post first appeared on Dave Hirschman’s blog on June 17th 2023. We felt that it was the perfect tribute to an icon of our field and wanted to share it with our readers as well. Guest Blogger David Hirschman July 5th 2023 It was fifteen years ago, and the meeting conference center meeting…
Guest Blogger Tony Campisi January 10th, 2023 Imagine for a minute, life without nature. Imagine a spring morning without a robin, a summer night without fireflies. Think of a drive in the fall without the changing of leaves. Close your eyes and really think of a world without trees. Imagine if children rolled logs…
Blogger Beth Ginter December 21st, 2022 This fall, I had the good fortune to spend five days sailing down the Bay from Galesville, MD, to Norfolk, VA with my friends, Kate and Jack, on their relatively new (to them) Morgan 38. I learned to sail as an adult, taking lessons on a Sunfish in the…
August 25th, 2022 By Kelly Morse What does it mean to truly know a place? What’s more, what does it mean to commit to a relationship with a piece of land? Before we bought our first home in April 2021, it was a rental property for ten years. Saplings waved from the gutters, foundation…