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Alec Donald: Enhancing the Landscape

Alec Donald beautifies local lands, promoting biodiversity.

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Alec Donald: Enhancing the Landscape
My hopeful story is about Alec Donald, my neighbour. He is a landscape gardener by day and already works long hours running his landscaping business, but over recent years, he has weeded, planted, and nurtured all the little pockets of land adjacent to our properties. Not only is he improving the appearance, but he is also adding to the variety of plants in this very agricultural landscape. He has included a bug hotel, a bridge over the stream, a willow dome, and hundreds of trees. I noticed the other day that he has now planted trees and shrubs in the bank alongside the stream. This will help mitigate further erosion in the extreme rainfall we are experiencing more often, along with extending the nature corridors for the wildlife. Alec tends to do this planting on a weekend or evening, on his own, silently working away. I wanted to acknowledge that I see it and appreciate it.
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My hopeful story is about Alec Donald, my neighbour. He is a landscape gardener by day and already works long hours running his landscaping business, but over recent years, he has weeded, planted, and nurtured all the little pockets of land adjacent to our properties. Not only is he improving the appearance, but he is also adding to the variety of plants in this very agricultural landscape. He has included a bug hotel, a bridge over the stream, a willow dome, and hundreds of trees. I noticed the other day that he has now planted trees and shrubs in the bank alongside the stream. This will help mitigate further erosion in the extreme rainfall we are experiencing more often, along with extending the nature corridors for the wildlife. Alec tends to do this planting on a weekend or evening, on his own, silently working away. I wanted to acknowledge that I see it and appreciate it.

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