Growing your own fruits and vegetables can bring you a sense of pride and peace of mind in knowing exactly where your produce originates. Fruit trees in particular add to the landscape of your home ...

Planting a tree involves more than just digging a hole and dropping it in. Proper techniques can help a tree grow stronger and live longer. Fall is the ideal season for tree planting because the ...

Environmental advocates are calling on the city of Bakersfield to spend less money on trimming trees and more money on ...

It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What could go wrong? Yet year after year, we see trees planted incorrectly ...

When I lived in New York City, the view from my kitchen window was framed by a tremendous scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) who towered over the brick homes below — a 150-year-old remnant from before the ...

Xiomara Duran, Community Forestry Associate Manager and San Fernando Valley resident said, “Through this project of planting ...

Place the stakes in the native soil surrounding the tree, spacing them equally. “You don’t want the stakes to be within the root ball, or else it defeats the purpose,” Abdi said. Drive the stakes ...