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Ash Trees & Emerald Ash Borer

Ash Trees & Emerald Ash Borer

We are sorry to all our valuable visitors, but the Althouse Arboretum and its trails will be closed to the public until March 1st for Ash Tree removal. This is what a small insect can do! . We love our trees! Unfortunately, we have had to make the very difficult decision to remove all our Ash Trees on the properties of the Althouse Arboretum.  This is a result of an invasive insect called the Emerald Ash Borer.  This insect burrows…

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Volunteer Spotlight – Steve Leo

Volunteer Spotlight – Steve Leo

Steve Leo, Web Design A chance conversation at an “Over 30 Basketball League” was the beginning of Steve Leo’s involvement with GreenAllies. When Ken Hamilton started discussing some of the environmental projects he was overseeing, Steve jumped in and immediately offered help with a website for the organization. Since then Steve has worked with many volunteers and staff to develop and host several websites for the GreenAllies organization. His amazing knowledge and willingness to help has placed Steve at the…

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Vinca Meadow

Vinca Meadow

Some plants are pretty yet called invasive, but what can one harmless plant do? Somewhere in the 1950’s or maybe 60’s, long before the environmental movement came into being or used the word ‘invasive’ to describe plants or even really understood the consequences of planting certain non-native plants, Pastor Althouse planted a small area of his property with Vinca. Now, 60 years later you can see Vinca covering a large area of the 17 acre property. While beautiful, with periwinkle…

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Volunteer Spotlight – Kirk Brown

Volunteer Spotlight – Kirk Brown

Kirk Brown, Kirk’s Lawn Care Kirk Brown first learned about GreenAllies and the Althouse Arboretum on Facebook less than two years ago and reached out to see how he could help.  His initiation to GreenAllies was when he became one of the volunteers who helped with the initial demolition work on our farmhouse.  He continued to help by planting trees and clearing trails and most recently used his lawn care business equipment and expertise to help create our new addition…

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Our house is a very, very, very, fine house

Our house is a very, very, very, fine house

But it needs lots of TLC! Built, we believe, in the 1700’s (we found the logs in the walls from when it was a log cabin!) the house has gone through lots of changes and families. It was bought in the 1950’s by Pastor Althouse and his wife who were the last residents. It’s been vacant the last 20 years and just a few short years ago his grandchildren, wanting to preserve the home of so many pleasant memories, donated…

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