Grandma Planting More Than 11,000 Trees
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She is not your ordinary grandmother. Lequita Wylie recently shot an eight-point buck. She is passionate about hunting and passionate about the 277 acres she was born and raised on. “I just went to the Chester County Soil and Conservation Office one day and applied. I talked to them about assistance,” said Lequita Wylie. With the help of the Natural Resources Conservation Service Wylie received two rare Chestnut trees from North Carolina. They are the only two that are 94 percent pure in the state. “The American chestnut was found throughout our forest but in the early 1900’s it was just wiped out by a non-native chestnut blight brought over from Asia so you don’t find the tree anymore,” said Mike Hansbrough from NRCS. 11,000 trees will be planted. Wylie received help from the federal government in paying for the trees and the planting of the trees, part of the Environmental Quality Incentives program. “It was important to me because of the erosion problems we have had over the last couple of years. We have had a lot of flooding and it really played havoc on this particular farm,” said Wylie. The trees will provide food for wildlife. Deer and turkeys will get to eat from what drops from the trees.. “The plan was to plant a mixture of native trees and shrubs so we came up with a plan of planting things like American beauty, berry, plum, crab apple all these really good native plants,” said Hansbrough.
