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Strong Root Systems- “You Can Grow That”

In You Can Grow That by Forest Keeper10 Comments

Okay, So here’s the bottom line. Do you want the trees that you’ve planted to be healthy and live a long, fruitful life?  Then you need to be thinking about the parts of the tree that, for the most part, go unnoticed. THE ROOTS!  Healthy roots= healthy trees. Now we could get in to the biology and physiology of trees …

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Tree Preservation in Concord, MA

In Conservation, From the Field, Plant Health Care by Forest Keeper10 Comments

Three beautiful Sugar Maple trees struggle on a new construction site. Soil compaction, damaged soil chemistry and mechanical damage are just some of the issues troubling these large shade trees. The Forest Keepers team was brought in to restore the proper growing conditions and to ensure these trees received the proper care through the duration of the construction process.
Title of submission: Tree Preservation in Concord

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Slowing Down To Notice the Trees

In From the Field, Tree Poetry by Forest Keeper4 Comments

STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The …