May 29, 1995 –– an F2 tornado, winds 113-157 mph, swept across the author’s property in the Berkshire foothills of upState New York,  the first ‘big wind’ since 1978 to hit the Hudson Valley.  Locals couldn’t recall such a tornado for half a century.  It devastated 11 acres of the homestead’s mixed woods of yellow pines, maples, hardwoods as it swept across New York and Massachusetts.   But like the fires in Western US, nature’s ‘anger’ subsided and in its own way, reinvigorated the environment, albeit with a bit of help from people and machinery.

Nature’s Way is printed on 100% post consumer recycled paper, processed chlorine-free.

We saved:

1. •50 trees (40’ tall, 6-8”in diameter)
   

2. •21,683 gallons of water
   

3. •35 million BTUs of total energy
   

4. •21,360 pounds of solid waste
   

5. •4427 pounds of greenhouse gasses