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 »

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 »

Jersey, free trees and energy savings

Did you know that one of the many benefits of healthy trees is energy savings? Trees on the sides of a house will reduce the summer electric bill. Now imagine a street lined with trees. If each house reduces its electric bill, that is a nice chunk of savings for the electric company. Additionally, an… Read more »

In Japan, there is a war against pollen

Imagine a room full of people sneezing nonstop. Imagine looking into their eyes and seeing nothing but irritation. Now imagine an entire country of thatโ€ฆ Although we specialize in bare root trees at Cold Stream Farm, we pay close attention to tree news from all over the world. Did you know that there is a… 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 »