Harrowsmith

CURB APPEAL

Who knew that climate change, biodiversity and curb appeal are synonymous?

I grew up on a farm with a big circular driveway. The farm yard, where everyone parked, was a lot of gravel for my tender feet to navigate, but in front of the house, two tall rows of cedars arched over two wheel paths, with a grassy, mossy strip down the middle. It was there I would play.

Another family we knew took as the model of country prosperity. When they paved their long farm driveway with a few inches of blacktop, I asked Dad to do the same. “Why would

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