When Allen Nelson moved to Charlotte’s Commonwealth-Morningside neighborhood in 2007, he was drawn to the area’s bungalow-style homes, the graceful, mature shade trees and the tucked-away location so close to downtown.
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Amber Veverka
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BACKGROUND
Freelance writer Amber Veverka spent 20 years as a newspaper journalist, most recently at The Charlotte Observer. Her website, Backyard & Beyond, www.backyardandbeyond.org, introduces urban readers to the natural world around them and is an online news partner for the Observer. She is working on an N.C. Environmental Education certification and volunteers with Mecklenburg Park and Recreation and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. She lives in Charlotte with her husband, two children and flock of backyard hens.
Amber Veverka s a graduate of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich.
MOST RECENT POSTINGS
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 08:49
Two different organizations in the Charlotte region are using borrowed land and volunteer labor to get fresh, local food on the plates of people who need it most.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012 - 09:14
Cars jammed the parking lots, spilled over onto the lawn and relentlessly circled, searching for spaces. One recent Saturday at the state-run Charlotte Regional Farmers Market, Arlene Haigler could plainly see how a national trend had come home...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 12:36
If you could travel back in time to the Carolinas Piedmont before European settlement, some of the landscape might look a bit like this clearing in northwestern Mecklenburg County, tucked under swooping Duke Energy power lines.
Here, a...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 15:34
The farmer points toward a long stretch of turned earth warming in the sun. Tomatoes and squash will grow well there, he says. More crops will be planted over there, he says, gesturing toward another neatly plowed rectangle. Behind him,...
Monday, February 6, 2012 - 14:22
What happens when you save a wetland, but not the wet?
On a winter’s walk last year through Flat Branch Nature Preserve, Chris Matthews, the county park department natural resources manager, saw the answer. The preserve, at...
Thursday, October 20, 2011 - 07:00
The man answering the door struggled to hold his dog and appeared puzzled. I repeated the question.
“The black walnuts in your yard by the street – do you mind if we pick them up?” I waved my arm toward the ground,...
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