March 22nd 2023 By Jason Swope The Redbuds were in full bloom as I departed from Western Maryland on a Friday evening in April. I had an appointment the next morning in Norfolk, VA, with fellow Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals (CBLPs) and a group of community volunteers who were helping to build a living…
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…
November 9, 2022 By Kristen Parsons DC Green Infrastructure Projects Assistant Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay How do you balance multiple organizational missions while collaborating on a project? What do you do if the community you are trying to help doesn’t understand why you want to remove trees and shrubs in their neighborhood? How do…
October 17th, 2022 By Cindy Adams Dunn At the start of my career, I worked as an environmental educator and leader of Pennsylvania’s emerging efforts to improve the quality of its rivers and streams that flowed to the Chesapeake Bay. Then, just as now, I could be found along waterways in the dirt…
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…