¶ Discussing the Ancient Oak Tree
Do you want this thing ? back , or are you still going ?
Well , I just sort of keep it running , because you never know what happens .
Okay , yeah , you just edit it down If we're together , I'll keep it running , yeah whatever you want .
Unless you guys want it off and you want to talk about stuff .
No , I don't care yeah cool . This is the original plantation house , lowndes Grove , so this wall is the current property boundary , but the whole neighborhood was the plantation . wow , check out this oak , yeah this southern live oak . Yeah , this is like the specimen , that's like pre-revolutionary , a couple hundred years at least .
Oh yeah , I would say north of that . Grandmother oak here .
It's magnificent yeah , yeah , it's awesome yeah , has its own story too , though . Oh my gosh , how old do you think ?
Oh , I mean , that thing's got to be like 400 or something . I mean , I have no idea and it's really hard to tell with those . I think even like the angel oak .
Yeah , sometimes they're like it's 1,000 years . Yeah , no , it could be , though it could be the angel oak .
They think it's somewhere between like 400 and 1,000 years old . That's a big , but it's just hard to , without cutting it down , I guess , or damaging it in some way . You can't really tell yeah , so not worth it .
¶ Introducing Schuyler's Serendipitous Encounter with the Project
Hey , I want to introduce you to one of our friends .
She's a professor at Clemson . Helping us design the ecological corridor . She's got a couple of classes . If you've got time go visit their studio .
Magnificent . What's your name ?
Schuyler Clogston . And the group that just sort of dispersed are my students .
But this is our second semester working to design the ecological corridor , so they just finished up sort of a neighborhood study and analysis and they did case studies and precedents to break down ecological corridors into specific elements like bioswales , water retention ponds , native plants , um tree canopy coverage , things like that in urban areas , um , and then coming
up here in a couple weeks we're going to do a community design charrette with , in partnership with the city , to get community feedback on what they'd want the corridor to look like and then we'll get to designing pretty soon .
so yeah , I think sky is the best example of like the community just offering exactly what we need at the time . We're like , we're like how about this , uh , ecological corridor idea ?
And blake , the designer literally takes like a google , like a google earth image of the charleston peninsula and draws a yellow rectangle over where we want to do the ecological corridor . And then Skye's like I'll take it from here , thanks .
And she just like gets her students to like come up with all these brilliant ideas of how different areas can be you know that are just like laying abandoned , how they can be more productive . And you , I mean it's just been , it's been so weird , just like
¶ The Magic of Community Collaboration
in awe of and don't feel any ownership of this , know , but just feel like yeah , wow , people are just running with this and now the city's interested and like I don't know , it's just been , it's just been really hard .
What you just said about the right person , the right moment yeah , this happens everywhere so I have 200 plus episodes in now of this podcast . This happens everywhere . Yeah , it's , it's beyond where you could possibly think lucky .
Yeah .
This is the way life works . It's cool when you get stuck in on the ground . Yep , in your hood , this is how it works . It's pretty cool . It's so cool To know you've got nature at your back or life as a whole at your back like that . It's like just keep going and the sky's going to turn up .
Right . The sky's the limit . The sky's the limit . Have you heard that a million times ? I won't do it again . I promise . Man . There's a monarch in the sun ,
¶ Butterflies and Biodiversity Observed
it's like . Yes . Just getting some solar radiation . We had , like a butterfly , Hailey neither Haley and I had ever seen a zebra , something or other .
zebra swallow tail ?
It wasn't the zebra swallow tail , but it was like it had . Like I can't even do it justice , I should just look up a photo of it .
Was it like wide with like this .
Yeah , and it had like these lines on it .
It was crazy yeah we were out the other afternoon A friend came by and stopped and like three types of wasps , five types of bees , a hummingbird , two types of butterflies and like five types of moth butterflies and like five types of moth, in like 15 seconds .
You should talk to this guy that's doing the podcast . He's over there with Hailey
¶ Meeting Mad Max
and he has this podcast called regen narration . Cool , he's from perth , um , but they've been traveling around the united states for those are like authentic australians yeah , yeah , none of this fucking brisbane , sydney , east coast , bullshit yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , you Just from Perth . Yeah , you're like Mad Max . Yeah exactly .