Embracing a new role as an aspiring Conservation Horticulturalist.

Amidst the towering arboreal giants and luxuriant foliage of our project homestead in Patillas, Puerto Rico, I have come to embrace a new role as an aspiring Conservation Horticulturalist.
The disappearing act: global insect decline and our looming ecological catastrophe

As an inhabitant of Puerto Rico’s lush rainforest for the last twenty-two years, I am witnessing a devastating phenomenon firsthand – the severe decline of insect populations in our forest.