Transcript
What inspires you from WFSU public media? Here's this week's Voices That Inspire. My name is Donna Lager, and I am the retired co-founder of Native Nurseries, and I'm currently the president of Appalachiaud Abont Society. When I was a child, I was inspired by trees, and by the time I was going to college, although I didn't think I was gonna go to forestry school, I got interested in plants, more than trees, but plants and their relationship to animals. And that's why I went on to school. Now, my inspiration, I think, is still somewhat the same. I'm inspired by nature. When I mentioned I saw that zebra longwing flyby and late sags, that inspires me to protect that, that organism, to protect its habitat. And so now that I'm retired, I still work at Native Nurseries as a volunteer every Saturday. And I do that to support the young staff, but also to see our customers, and to keep teaching the way that we've been teaching. I hope that Native Nurseries continues long past my death. I hope that the land is preserved. We've set it up so that the land should be preserved there, and not developed, that's real important to me. And I have great faith in our younger generation, the generations that are coming along, but I do think that we, as older people, need to be mentors and help with environmental education effort with the younger people. I'm Donna Luguerre, co-founder of Native Nurseries, which was started in 1980, and retired now, president of Appalachia Audubon for this year. You're listening to Voices That Inspire.