Tag: trees

  • Harvesting Your Own Maple in Just a Few Simple Steps

    Harvesting Your Own Maple in Just a Few Simple Steps

    Tapping maple trees for sap may seem like a daunting task. However, it really is not hard to do. In fact, this outside activity can be fun as the days get warmer in anticipation of springtime. But what if you are not sure which trees are maple? Or which maple trees are the best to…

  • What Is Guerrilla Tree Planting?

    What Is Guerrilla Tree Planting?

    A lot of people out there would love to live a more sustainable lifestyle. One in which you give back to the environment from which we take so much. If you live in a city or suburb, or even if you’re homesteading, it might feel like there’s only so much you can do to make…

  • Stump Removal Hack: Epsom Salt

    Stump Removal Hack: Epsom Salt

    If you have any experience with removing a stump, you know what a headache it can be. It will either cost you hours, possibly days, of backbreaking, arduous labor, or way too much money to pay someone to do it for you. No matter how successful you are at cutting down a tree, the truck…

  • Stump Removal (VIDEO)   

    Stump Removal (VIDEO)  

    Getting rid of an unwanted tree doesn’t end with cutting it down (that’s the easy part!) Even after cutting it up and hauling it off or chipping it, you will be left with a stump, and this can be where the real work starts. I’ve seen people try to get around this with various methods,…

  • Tips for Pruning Fruit Trees

    Tips for Pruning Fruit Trees

      Fruit trees, like all perennials, are a great source of food for years to come, and should therefore be taken care of to keep them healthy and productive.  Some find it hard to bring themselves to cut anything from their fruit trees thinking that pruning will harm the tree, or that it will reduce…