Free Trees to Combat Global Warming

Christopher Brown and Elizabeth Black, joint owners of Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm, are pleased to announce that they once again have 400 small seedling trees to give away this year. Trees will be available starting at 7AM Saturday June 11^th.  

This year, the free trees are 1 – 3 foot tall ginnala maples, Catalpas, Russian hawthorns, hackberries and green ashes.  There are also some golden currants, bush honeysuckle, chokecherries and aggressive north Boulder roses.  All trees are drought resistant, but of course will grow faster and fix more carbon with extra water. 

Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm is located on 13^th Street, 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.  More information about planting your tree may be found at this link:  http://www.neighborhoodchristmastreefarm.com/freeseedlings.html

“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”, Elizabeth and Christopher decided they had to do something to combat global warming.   Since 2007 they have given away over 1200 seedling trees to Front Range gardeners. “Growing trees to give away seemed like something we could do to help”, says Elizabeth.  “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.”

For more information, please contact:

Elizabeth Black and Christopher Brown

Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm

4340 N 13^th St.

Boulder, CO 80304

303-449-7532

elizabeth@elizabethblackart.com

http://www.neighborhoodchristmastreefarm.com/freeseedlings.html