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Moss grows in abundance at The Undergrowth. Moss thrives in areas with clean, moist air and is actually highly sensitive to air pollution. Because moss lacks vascular systems and absorbs nutrients directly from the atmosphere, it thrives in clean environments but can act as a bioindicator, with certain species disappearing from areas with high pollutant levels.

Why We Built a Gathering Space in the Shenandoah: The Story of The Undergrowth

Some places exist to slow you down. This is one of them. There is a particular kind of tired that has nothing to do with sleep. It is the tiredness that comes from being always-on, always-connected, always responding to something that happened on a screen somewhere. It is the tiredness of meetings that could have been emails, of conversations that happen over text instead of over a table, of weekends that end before they ever really started. We know that tired. It is exactl

The Undergrowth

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