Treva Gear, chair of the Concerned Citizens of Cook County, was born in rural south Georgia in the close-knit hamlet of Adel, not far from four pick-your-own-peaches orchards. But her childhood memories of sweetness in the natural world run weedier and wilder.
“When I think back, I would love to drink that sweet little drop of juice from the honeysuckles, go berry-picking or blow on the dandelions, not knowing it was actually spreading them everywhere,” she said.
