Turkeys and chickens wander the two-acre plot, gobbling hackberries and bird cherries that have fallen from trees planted in their pen, and leaving manure to nourish the plants. |
Native trees like cedar elms and hackberries are dropping their leaves. |
The agreement foresees a study of 20 varieties of local trees such as brown olive tree, neem, alder buckthorn, European olive, hackberries, walnuts, etc. |
While the inhabitants of the cave probably consumed hackberries and grapes as fruits, the remaining seed present are likely incidental. |
Wild fruits such as hackberries and grapes supplemented the diet. |
But the latest attack — four tulip trees, a bunch of sugar maples, a red oak, a kwanzan cherry, a bitternut hickory, and hackberries — seemed random. |