Why are dad jokes so hard for Maple trees? They're too sappy. Acer saccharum — the sugar maple — has been quietly funding America's breakfast tables since long before America had breakfast tables. Native Americans taught early colonists how to tap these slow-growing, long-lived trees for their sweet sap, and what began as a quiet seasonal ritual is now a multi-billion-dollar industry across the U.S. and Canada. Gary L Hightshoe drew this Sweetie with the affection of someone who has spent a lifetime among trees that deserve their good names. Wear this T-Shirt for the people in your life who are a little sappy in all the best ways.
Gary L Hightshoe is the "Tree Whisperer." The grandfather of the prairie. The godfather of Savanna Studio. As Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, Gary taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. His students, his colleagues, and his friends gave him those names because they captured what was true: nobody knew the trees, the prairie, the savanna, the Midwest's living landscape the way Gary did, and nobody loved them more.
Gary is the author and illustrator of North American Plantfile and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America — books that have shaped the field of landscape architecture for a generation. His most enduring contribution may be Savanna Studio, the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Banff, and the Badlands — teaching them that you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk.
Through his art, Gary brings the natural world he has spent a lifetime studying into spaces where people can carry a piece of it with them every day. Every tree he draws, every barn he sketches, every silo he renders is a small act of preservation — a record of the Midwest as it was, as it is, and as it deserves to be remembered.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L Hightshoe
About this T-Shirt:
A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
Why are dad jokes so hard for Maple trees? They're too sappy. Acer saccharum — the sugar maple — has been quietly funding America's breakfast tables since long before America had breakfast tables. Native Americans taught early colonists how to tap these slow-growing, long-lived trees for their sweet sap, and what began as a quiet seasonal ritual is now a multi-billion-dollar industry across the U.S. and Canada. Gary L Hightshoe drew this Sweetie with the affection of someone who has spent a lifetime among trees that deserve their good names. Wear this T-Shirt for the people in your life who are a little sappy in all the best ways.
Gary L Hightshoe is the "Tree Whisperer." The grandfather of the prairie. The godfather of Savanna Studio. As Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University, Gary taught plant materials, planting design, and landscape resource management for more than 47 years. His students, his colleagues, and his friends gave him those names because they captured what was true: nobody knew the trees, the prairie, the savanna, the Midwest's living landscape the way Gary did, and nobody loved them more.
Gary is the author and illustrator of North American Plantfile and Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines for Rural and Urban America — books that have shaped the field of landscape architecture for a generation. His most enduring contribution may be Savanna Studio, the only traveling landscape architecture studio of its kind in the world. Over two decades, Gary led more than 1,000 students to the Boundary Waters, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Banff, and the Badlands — teaching them that you can't develop a relationship with the landscape from behind a desk.
Through his art, Gary brings the natural world he has spent a lifetime studying into spaces where people can carry a piece of it with them every day. Every tree he draws, every barn he sketches, every silo he renders is a small act of preservation — a record of the Midwest as it was, as it is, and as it deserves to be remembered.
"Long after we've come and gone, a tree still stands." — Gary L Hightshoe
About this T-Shirt:
A Kate Shu Collective exclusive, available only at the Monarch Shoppe.
