Water was on everyone s mind on a recent Dunbar morning.
Not just because renowned Southwest Florida water scientist Rae Ann Wessel had come to the I Will Mentorship Foundation s urban farm, but because the stuff was pouring from the sky, soaking the nonprofit s crops and hammering its tin roof.
After a decades-long environmental career, most recently with the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, where she retired as its Natural Resources Policy Director, Wessel is poised to help others learn about what she loves: natural systems and the water that sustains them.
On this rainy morning, though, she settled for joining a handful of volunteers from Florida Gulf Coast University making wooden picnic tables under I Will’s pavilion.