Update on South Fork Wind Farm with Cate Rogers of Win With Wind

 

The South Fork Wind project, first proposed in 2015, will build a wind farm off the coast of Long Island, 35 miles east of Montauk.

It will help the state reach its goal of 70% renewable energy by 2030 and the goal of East Hampton Town to have 100% of its energy needs met by renewable sources.

The project reached a major milestone when state agencies signed a Joint Proposal to allow the project to move forward, despite opposition from some wealthy homeowners at the site in Wainscott where the power cable from the wind farm will come ashore.

Last October Francesca talked with East Hampton’s Cate Rogers about the project.

This week she checked back with Cate about the progress of the South Fork Windfarm as it goes through the governmental review process.

Here is the conversation, followed by last October's discussion

Deer Resistant Plants - a conversation with landscape architect Edwina von Gal

 

Francesca Rheannon talks with landscape architect and activist Edwina von Gal at her magnificent gardens in East Hampton, New York. 

Edwina is a proponent of planting native shrubs and an opponent of the use of pesticides which kill vital bees and insects.

They talked about deer-resistant plants.  

 listen here

 

Here is a list of deer-proof or deer-resistant plants compiled by Edwina von Gal:  

• Carex pennsylvanica: Pennsylvania sedge (native)
• Pachysandra procumbens: Allegheny Spurge (native)
• Hakanechloa macra: Japanese grass  
• Petacites japonica: butter burr
• Lindera benzoin: Northern Spice Bush (native shrub, great for pollinators, blooms in Feb/March)   
• Hamamalia virginia:  (not deer proof) spring witch hazel (late season bloom)
• Leucothoe axillaris — Prefers a bit of shade; evergreen
• sweet alyssum
• Aconitum napellus (not native): Monkshood 
• Actaea racemosa:  black cohosh (native)
• Amsonia hubrichtii: Bluestar (native)
• ground covers: bee balms, mountain mints, pachera, chrisogonum (Yellow Star), mahonia 
• flowering trees: Carolina silver bell; Carolina all spice, calalanthus
• hellebore (not native) good for pollinators
• American dogwood, American fringe tree
• magnolia virginiana: swamp magnolia (blooms all summer)