A gorgeous evening by the French Broad River 🌅

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Happy 1 year anniversary G & T! ❤️

We hope this past year has been full of love and wish you many more years of happiness!

Photography by @wildwood.media

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If you`ve never visited Deerwoode, or it`s been a while since your last visit, you may not be able to tell how much has changed at first. But, trust us, huge improvements have been made to the land.

“The goal,” as Greg Jennings puts it, “is that years from now, you won’t be able to tell work was done here.”

@conservingcarolina was on property this past winter and spring stabilizing the riverbank, removing most of the invasive bamboo, creating a healthy floodplain, and adding a slough.

"The difference between the Deerwoode of Part 1 and the Deerwoode of today is striking. Where there was once bare, eroding bank and invasive bamboo thickets, there are now planted sycamore, maple, dogwood, and other native species — and a newly completed slough quietly doing its work alongside the river.

Most of the bamboo stands have been removed — a significant victory, though one that comes with an honest caveat: bamboo, left unattended for decades, doesn’t give up easily. Complete eradication of these stands will be an ongoing effort, a slow and patient battle fought one stand at a time. But the tide has turned."

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