We planted 2,000 trees at Roshara in 1966, the year we purchased the place. By hand. We did the same in 1967 and
1968. Also by hand. And we have planted trees at Roshara every
year since. Sometimes only 25, one year
7,500 (not by hand).
This year marked 50 years of tree planting—and we
planted 300 of them. Over the years we
have planted in the rain, during sleet storms, during snow storms, and when the
wind was so cold we were dressed for winter.
This year it was sunny and in the seventies. Almost too warm for tree planting.
The tree planting crew consisted of Natasha and
Steve, Sue and Paul, and grandson, Josh with his friend, Collin. I had the
dubious title of Senior Supervisor—which meant I did a little demonstration on how
to correctly plant a tree, which I do every year. “Dad we know how to plant a tree,” I hear
every year. But I repeat the
instructions anyway. I also had the
difficult job of keeping the little trees, they are only about eight to ten inches
tall, from drying out. Which meant I
made sure that the little trees roots remained immersed in a pail of water. We
were planting red pine, jack pine, and Norway spruce—a hundred of each.
The crew was inter-planting to fill in the places
where last year’s trees had died. Not an
easy task because it meant shoveling away sod before slicing a hole in the soil
and putting a new tree in place. It was
a hot and sweaty project—but little complaining. Although Sue claimed the last bunch of trees
in the pail increased in size from 25 to 50.
By mid-afternoon the last little tree went into the
ground, near a clump of trees we had planted in 1968. I reminded Steve and Sue that they had help
planted those trees, which now stand fifty feet tall. The were just little kids then, but Ruth and
I had them helping out, along with their brother Jeff, who, I’m sure misses our
annual tree planting—he lives in Colorado.
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: Plant a tree—what better way to
assure a green future.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Writing Workshops for 2016
Telling Your Story Workshop at Wild Rose Library,
Saturday June 11, 9-4. Call 920-622-3835 to get your name on the list as
enrollment is limited. (Class is filled)
Telling Your Story Workshop at The Clearing in Door
County. Friday, August 12, 9-4. Call 920-854-4088 to get your name on the
list. (Still Room)
UPCOMING EVENTS.
April
19, 6:00 p.m. Union Grove Library.
Wisconsin Agriculture: A History
May
14, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Book signing, Dregne’s, Westby.
May
26, 7:00 p.m. Richfield Historical Society, 4128 Hubertus Road, Richfield, WI Whispers and Shadows.
June
7, 7:00 p.m. Cambria Library. Cambria Fire Dept. Community Center, Cambria.
June
11, 9-4 Writing Workshop, Wild Rose Library.
Telling Your Story
June
14, 9:00 a.m. Keynote speech. Country Heritage Day, St. John the Baptist
Church, Montello. Barns of Wisconsin.
July
19, 11:00 a.m., Farm Technology Days, Snudden Farms, Lake Geneva, Walworth
County. History of Wisconsin Agriculture.
August
9, 6:30 p.m.. Evening. Winnebago County Historical Society. Oshkosh Library. History of Wisconsin Agriculture.
August
12 9-4, Writing Workshop, The Clearing, Door County.
August
20, 10:30-11:30 am. Waupaca Annual Arts
on the Square.
Purchase
Jerry’s DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial Library in Wild Rose,
Wisconsin (a fundraiser for them):
The library now has available signed copies of Jerry’s DVDs:
Emmy Winner, A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps (based on The Quiet Season book.)
Jerry Apps a Farm
Story (based on Rural Wit and
Wisdom and Old Farm books.)
The Land with Jerry Apps, (based on the book Whispers and Shadows.)
Also available are several of Jerry’s signed books including:
Jerry’s newest novel, The
Great Sand Fracas of Ames County. and Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History.
Contact
the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson
Memorial Library
500 Division Street
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