Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

My toughest planting in the world. A highly disease-resistant variety, on M111, planted 4 years ago through deep gravel into the assembly area at the front of the #EugeneMission men's center. The men passing through care for it, protect it, honor it. facebook.com/100002219988748/posts/2427945083956134/

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Quoted by@sheofthetree So upsetting. Through decades planting trees and gardens in tough urban settings, among the poor, the devastated, the mentally ill - precisely those folk common prejudice decries as most-likely-vandals - it’s been my experience that the real thugs, at all levels, are politicals.