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Resource Articles from Gilbert Smith, ISA Board Certified Master Arborist
and Lesley Bruce Smith, ISA Certified Arborist
Tree Diversity and Human Health
Mother Nature’s Moment - January 2021
by: Lesley Bruce Smith, ISA Certified Arborist
A decade ago when we were first visiting our daughter’s-in-law family home in the mountains of Austria we had the privilege of witnessing life on a European farm first hand. While there we watched her young cousins on the mountain alm1 playing, half naked in the pond where the pigs were bathing too. It was one of the first of many real life lessons, since, on the value of biodiversity, and the role of microbes in developing our human immune systems.
Coming Back from the Ashes
Mother Nature’s Moment
by ISA Certified Arborist: Lesley Bruce Smith
As many of you know, I have just recently passed the one year mark of my breast cancer diagnosis. I am happy to report that although the work is as yet unfinished, all my one year scans are clean and clear. This is good news and worth celebrating. Yahoo!
At the beginning of this journey I just kept thinking I wanted to “get back to normal”.