How Do Trees Age?

While aging may be a slow, agonizing process for humans, the opposite can be said for tress. Most of our growing takes place when we are young. We sometimes grow as much as a foot in a year after hitting puberty. Once we reach our early โ€˜20s, we are simply done growing. In fact we… Read more »

Plan accordingly when planting trees, part one

In the coming weeks, youโ€™ll most likely find yourself standing on your deck, back porch or in the middle of your yard contemplating what needs to be done next. Whether itโ€™s finding the perfect spot for planting that tree or what spots are in desperate need of weeding, thereโ€™s plenty to do. If you are… Read more »

Can you judge a tree by its branch?

In the press release, โ€œOne Treeโ€™s Architecture Reveals Secrets of a Forest,โ€ Sciencedaily.com reports, โ€œJust by looking at a treeโ€™s branching pattern, it turns out, scientists can gather clues about how it functions โ€“ for example how much carbon dioxide it exchanges with the atmosphere or how much water transpires through its leaves โ€“ regardless… Read more »

The United Nations Forum on Forests: what we can do to help

Established in 2000, the goal of the United Nations Forum on Forests is to promote โ€œthe management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests and to strengthen long-term political commitment to this end.โ€ To accomplish this, the Forum encourages inter-government dialogue and collaboration between countries when it comes to policy, funding and education…. Read more »

Cold Stream Farm

Welcome to the official Blog of Cold Stream Farm We created this in order to continue to connect with our loyal and new customers. Communication has been a key to our success and we want to continue to see the relationships with our customers grow. Weโ€™ll continue to write weekly posts in an order to… Read more »