Author Archives: carinyasharples

This article was researched and written in early 2019. A shorter version was published in September 2019 in Mongabay, who originally commissioned the piece.  “Cherry, mango, star apple, pam, cashew, pomegranate,” Carol Dabie, 37, rattles off a list of trees that once filled her family’s yard. She recalls climbing them as a child, impatiently waitingContinue reading “Rethinking trees in a multi-cultural urban area”