In the Grateful Trees and Bees kitchen garden a few rows of carrots wait for some good solid frosts to sweeten them up and a mini forest of Russian kale — with beautiful frilly green leaves that deepen to purple — stands ready to brave the Winter solstice to come. […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
17 posts
At Grateful Trees and Bees we’re pretty sure the first Thanksgiving was all about food. Not the processed, packaged, gourmet epicurious.com variety. No, we mean basic, simple food — whatever was successfully harvested, hunted, or gathered. More, the first Thanksgiving was about the sharing of food. It was about the […]
Through the Grateful Trees and Bees’ Meet Your North Carolina Native Trees blog series, we’ll introduce you to the native trees we consider our friends.* Betula nigra Common Name: River Birch Family: Betulaceae Native Range: Eastern United States Zone: 4 to 9 Height @ 15 years: 25 feet Height @ […]
One of Grateful Trees and Bees’ guiding principles goes like this: “Look around you for what’s required – life provides for necessity.” We certainly employ it in our tree services operations, choosing to see the wood debris generated by tree pruning or tree removal not as disposable waste, but rather […]
A Grateful Trees & Bees guest post from our friend at HarvestLiberty.net. I will never forget the first time I watched Grandpa Jack deadhead a marigold and scatter its seeds. It was a flat out miracle. I took high school biology, so I knew about the birds and the bees, […]
It’s harvest time in the Piedmont of North Carolina. At Grateful Trees and Bees that means we’re bringing in from our kitchen garden carrots, sweet potatoes, chard, peppers, green beans and the errant, late blooming tomato or cucumber. It also means we’re eagerly awaiting the peak harvest season of our […]
Continuing Grateful Trees and Bees series of posts on Firewood Season, we turn this week to the debate over whether heating with wood can be considered a carbon-neutral, green energy. Stick with us, this gets a little smokey (no pun intended). At it’s most basic, wood burning is argued to […]
Once we get a few cooler nights in Central North Carolina and folks remember that no matter how hot our summer, winter will still arrive, we notice an increase in client calls about the availability of local firewood. At Grateful Trees and Bee this means that in addition to answering […]
Here at Grateful Trees and Bees in Durham, North Carolina, every season is firewood season. As a tree services company with a recycling philosophy, we work hard to make sure nary a scrap of any tree we remove ends up in a landfill. When we do a tree removal or […]
Fall is the season of the insect! Grateful Trees and Bees’ arborist has observed over the past two weeks an increase in defoliating caterpillar activity both in the woods and throughout the urban landscape. The telltale “silk bag” within the crown of a tree is easy to spot and is […]
Greetings! It is my pleasure to share the good news that Grateful Trees and Bees now offers North Carolina landowners a full array of Forestry Consulting Services. In April 2014, I realized a life long goal, becoming a North Carolina Registered Forester. I am excited at the opportunity to engage […]