All together now: Chestnuts composting on an open pile ...

By adamg - 9/7/10 - 4:15 pm

Take a look at a pair of dramatic before and after photos from a volunteer effort that removed 7,500 pounds of the dreaded water chestnut from a stretch of the Mystic River in Medford. And yes, all of that stuff will be composted.

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Stir-fry for everyone

By anon (not verified) - 9/7/10 - 4:33 pm
#1

When harvesting water chestnuts, much labor is involved. Because of this, water chestnuts are fairly expensive to purchase,

http://www.essortment.com/all/whatiswaterch_rkap.htm

Water Chestnut genocide!

By anon (not verified) - 9/7/10 - 5:33 pm
#2

Water Chestnut genocide! Plants have rights too.

Somewhat misleading

By Lisa H (not verified) - 9/7/10 - 8:35 pm
#3

Much of that work was done by mechanical harvesters, brought in specially to clear out the bulk of the growth. The hand-weeders (I was one of them) cleaned up around the water lilies and under the trees along the banks where the machines couldn't get.

Plants may have rights, but not the right to completely take over the river!

Tell that to the

By Haviland (not verified) - 9/8/10 - 7:39 am
#4

Tell that to the phragmities!

How did the state approve removal of this species when it claims removing the invasive reeds in my neighborhood constitutes an attack on wetlands?

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