After receiving great feedback about last year’s article on indigenous fruit trees, I decided to offer a tour of the trees featured in the story. If we are to protect and respect our planet, I feel we must connect personally with every animal and plant. I hope this tour, and others that will follow, will remind us to admire, respect and conserve our living planet. We will breathe in my mantra: “Remember, we can’t give these plants life; only they have the ability to give all living things life.” For more information please visit the website “lightlybreathinginnature.tk”
The tour is Saturday, June 28. We will meet at 8.30 a.m. at Meridian Hill Park, 2330 15th St NW (at the top of the waterfall). We will have a continental breakfast, take a three-mile walk, and return for lunch. We will finish at 2.30 p.m. I have documented 21 different varieties of fruit trees in Washington, and we will visit them all! Only 100 tickets are available. So, if you would like to attend, please pre-register at the website mentioned above by Monday, June 23. You may also register when you arrive. Fees are $20 for adults and $10 children. Pets and the disabled are welcome. Remember: if we don’t take care of this planet, we may all end up homeless!
Attendees will also have the honor of meeting our next tour host, Dennis Chestnut, the executive director of Ground Work Anacostia DC. Dennis will describe how his group is improving the Anacostia and what to expect from our tour at the end of July. So, join me as we all learn how to lightly breathe in nature! Hope to see you there.
