How does he do it? Every tree is either dead or fallen naturally, or he was asked to remove it by a client, it was given to him, or he minimally selects a tree from our land. He has removed only 3 live trees in the decades of maintaining Ambrosia Farms. In this time, our neighbors have logged several times over and the Amish clear cut immediately for the lumber and mills they work on nearby. Suffice to say we are minimalists, conservationists, and green in an ideal way. We also plant trees and relocate seedlings so they can thrive and create new forests scattered throughout the farm. The time I identified stolen trees from a neighbor's logger - I was compensated for the wood - but the land can never be restored after logging. Granted it is necessary to have wood to build and we have 3 pre existing buildings on our farm that are priceless. But it is my humble opinion that the Earth needs more caregivers like us - conservationists for future generations. There is much opportunity to reuse - and I will start to photograph the many barns which have fallen and the wood that can be reclaimed. Gene and some builders he's worked with have have done so.
