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Jethro Heiko
- Mar 20
- 1 min
Trees as living architecture
As I head into another planting season I’ve been considering trees. Trees create a place. Oak Lane Maple is in large part a celebration...
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Jethro Heiko
- Mar 19
- 1 min
Philadelphia Magazine Article
Check out the great article in Philly Magazine.
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Jethro Heiko
- Mar 16
- 2 min
The city as arboretum. The community as farm.
While walking with a forester in East Oak Lane in January I started seeing the neighborhood and its trees through his eyes. I have only...
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Jethro Heiko
- Mar 8
- 1 min
On Magic and Maple
When the pandemic started I had one goal that stood out more than any other (besides surviving). That my children would believe that...
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Jethro Heiko
- Mar 2
- 1 min
Endings
Is it over? Is this the end? Seasons come and go. And maple’s is rather short here. There may be more. Or not. The weather looks...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 28
- 1 min
People love goats. People love maple syrup.
Close to 200 people attended today's goat and maple walk with Philly Goat Project at the Awbury Arboretum. I spoke, answered dozens of...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 26
- 2 min
North Philly's Super Sugars-3% and why it matters
Between Saturday and Thursday morning, we collected 135 gallons of sap from black, red, silver, and sugar maples in East Oak Lane and...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 25
- 1 min
Hitting the limit
Well, it happened. Yesterday, after collecting over 80 gallons of sap in one day from 40 trees my body had had enough. My hip failed and...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 21
- 1 min
Tapping is community development
The other day a friend of mine, a farmer, activist and organizer said "farming is community development." I've been trying to approach...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 21
- 1 min
Maple season is my summer vacation
I spend many of my days outside, often in the sun, regularly getting wet. I am tired from all the activity but in a good way, and I am...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 20
- 2 min
The Lenape, Lucretia Mott and learning
When I lived in Fishtown I learned a little bit about the Lenape from historians and activists involved in the Penn Treaty Museum and...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Walk-in to it
I'm not known as very handy but I am learning to be more so, because often it just seems I need to be. As January was kicking in I...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Metaphors and maples.
More than the syrup, for me at least, maples and this whole maple tapping effort just keep feeding me with creative energy. Perhaps its...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Doing it together.
Creating an urban maple tapping effort isn't that easy. There's a lot to plan for and the more trees that come online the more you need...
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Jethro Heiko
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Get tapping!
Tapping a tree is a commitment, a promise. Once you drill that small hole and place the spile (or tap) in the tree you feel a...
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