A Gift of the Future, To the Land and Its Inhabitants

At this time of year, every year, hearts are opened and people reach out to help those in need.

Here in Central Texas, because of the drought and the wildfires that resulted from it, there are more of those than usual, and many organizations are focusing their efforts on those who lost homes and more in those fires.

The Native Plant Society of Texas is one of those organizations, and the donations raised with their efforts, while only totaling $1800 in dollars, will multiply into more green than you can imagine, and will be of greater value than dollars in the end.

300 groups of children, from schools, churches, and youth groups, took the materials purchased with that $1800 (compost, clay, and seeds), and made 150,000 seed balls containing over 50 varieties of native Central Texas seeds to be given to the victims of the Bastrop County fires to use in restoring their land to its former beauty.

Right now, they look just like what they're made of, balls of mud. But once they're distributed and used by the fire victims, they'll be a beautiful bounty of green helping the land restore itself.

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