Every year my mama pulps persimmons. Her persimmon trees are from the seeds of a tree that stood in her grandfather’s yard- gone nearly twenty years now (that’s another story). Every year I think I’m going to save some seeds to bring home and plant, but always seem to let October slip by without getting it done. When I picked up my kids at her house last week I saw she had gathered a 50 gallon tub of milkweed pods to scatter in fence rows and ditches around home for the monarch butterflies. Such a small, simple act can have so much impact. I decided I had no excuse to not plant persimmon seeds this year. So, here is the video for BIO675 DB.

Inspirations (References)

Bastin, J. F., Finegold, Y., Garcia, C., Mollicone, D., Rezende, M., Routh, D., Zohner, C. M., & Crowther, T. W. (2019). The global tree restoration potential. Science, 365(6448), 76–79. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax0848

Leopold, A., Leopold, L. B., & Schwartz, C. W. (1993). Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold (1st ed.). Oxford University Press.

Rateliff, N., (2018). Hey, Mama [Recorded by N. Rateliff and the Night Sweats]. On Tearing at the Seams.