Guest column

Money does grow on trees, eventually

I won't live to see our black walnuts harvested, but somebody will

Lowell Carlson
Posted 12/23/19

I had a history professor in graduate school who owned 140 acres of long leaf pine in east Texas. Dr. Cravens knew how much growth the trees had put on that year, what the volume of wood on that worn out cotton farm was worth that week and when it was ready to harvest. It was an investment that converted sunlight in to biomass, like compound interest.

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