Free Trees to Combat Global Warming, starting June 21st

Christopher Brown and Elizabeth Black, joint owners of Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm, are pleased to announce that they once again have 350 small seedling trees to give away this summer, starting Saturday June 21st at 7AM. This is the third year they have given away trees. Their 1000th tree will be given away this year.The free trees are 1 – 3 foot tall hackberries, Russian hawthorns, ginnala maples, locusts and catalpas. All trees are drought resistant, but of course will grow faster and fix more carbon with extra water. There are also a few vines and shrubs available. Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm is located on 13th St, one block east of Broadway between Upland and Violet. Look for “Nelly-Belle the Carbon Cart” in front of the house, and pick out your tree. Planting instructions are in a box on the cart. “Please be sure to plant your tree right away, and take good care of it. It won’t help the climate at all if you plant a tree, and then kill it with neglect”, says Elizabeth. After viewing “An Inconvenient Truth”, Al Gore’s movie, Elizabeth and Christopher decided they had to do something to combat global warming. “Growing trees to give away seemed like something we could do to help”, says Elizabeth. Elizabeth built a deer-proof cart named “Nelly-Belle the Carbon Cart” out of old bicycle tires, a pallet and some wire panels to house the give-away trees. “Although growing trees fixes carbon and helps combat global warming, it is not a final solution to the problem. The tree eventually dies or is cut down, and burns or rots, returning carbon to the atmosphere. But planting trees does help buy us more time to find long term solutions,” says Elizabeth
For more information, please contact:
Elizabeth Black and Christopher Brown
Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm
4340 N 13th St.
Boulder, CO 80304
303-449-7532
elizabeth@elizabethblackart.com