Blog – Thriving The Future

I told my customer that he was not my customer

A guy from upstate New York ordered some trees for Fall. I emailed him and told him he was not my customer. Am I crazy?

Stop trying to wake people up. Seriously, just go outside.

People Don’t Want a Consultant, They Want a Neighbor. But I didn’t know that going in.

Which chestnut variety is right for you? Your Thriving Resource for Choosing the Best Chestnut Trees for Your Land.

I stood in the grocery store looking at empty shelves. I had stuff at home. So why was I there? I couldn’t believe this was happening to us.

Your How-to Is Dead – You Just Don’t Know It Yet. Moving from How to Why in the age of AI.

How I feed deer all season, from apples in September, through chestnuts varieties that drop at different times, to persimmons and crabapples.

We weren’t supposed to grow everything ourselves. If we could, we wouldn’t need community. That’s why you need the seed swap.

I spent years buying trees from catalogs. They all died. Now I grow trees from seed or buy from my area or region. Because: Seeds have a memory.

Live Local – Build It Before You Need It. Build your local connections now so you don’t have to scramble to do it later.