Bretts Agroecology Blog #4

 Disturbance and Succession at High Rock Nursery


High Rock Nursery has been lucky to have never been hit by a tornado, earthquake, or forest fire. The main ecological disturbances for High Rock Nursery is windstorms, some flooding, and a couple of minor stinkbug accidents. Thomas said that he has had trees, and flowers pulled from the ground in his nursery before. He also said when it rains really hard the pond out back floods but it never hurts any crops just makes traveling around the property harder. He also said he has had some stinkbug problems within the vegetables and berry plants. High Rock Nursery also has an off-property stand on Highway 8 in Lexington where he has never had any problems and that is where the finished products get placed in order to sell without any further harm. Thomas said there are rarely any human disturbances besides his kids messing around when they were younger running through the fields and some minor employee accidents but nothing too costly. The one thing he didn't mention that I was curious about was if anybody ever stole from his stand on Hwy 8 but I doubt there is too much of that going on. The only other disturbance he has mentioned were deer and other wild animals getting into the property and having themselves a snack. 















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