Eco Stewards 3rd Sunday Report

Well, PUCC, just when I try to explain exactly what Sustainability Seekers means, and how it’s related to Environmental Stewardship, our team has decided to change our name to ECO STEWARDS!!! We are still seeking sustainability, but truthfully, we didn’t like the acronym SS. It’s just so much easier to write and say SS, and we don’t like being called “SS”.
Eco-stewards are people or groups who use and protect the natural environment responsibly through conservation and sustainable practices1

Environmental stewardship, or Eco-stewards, conserves natural resources, combats pollution, and protects biodiversity, but most importantly, it means we protect and sustain our environment for future generations.

We realize they all mean the same thing, but because we don’t like to be called SS, we are now Eco Stewards. Thank you for your understanding!!!
About our garden: you may have noticed that it looks a little baren recently, like there’s a big chunk of flowers missing. Well, you’re right, we had to pull out all the beautiful coneflowers. Our resident botanical expert, Julie Harms, noticed that the coneflowers had a disease called “Asters Yellow”. This condition could spread to adjacent flowers and there is no cure. We will be replacing them with perhaps another type of plant, when the weather and conditions are right.
Quick facts
• Aster yellows is a plant disease that can infect many plants.
• Infected plants have yellow leaves and stems, stunted growth and small malformed flowers.
• The aster leafhopper can carry the aster yellows pathogen. Plants become infected when fed on by leafhoppers carrying the pathogen.
• Once infected with aster yellows, a plant will never recover.
• Plants infected with aster yellows should be removed from growing areas and destroyed.
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second-best time is now.”
— Chinese proverb