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 […]
Monthly Archives: October 2014
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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 […]