Pacific Northwest Gardening: One Billion Trees, 0 by Poochella

Poochella wrote:
I am all for trees. The National Arbor Foundation will send you trees free if you send a nominal joining fee. They used to anyway. Mine are finally growing taller after about 8 years!
http://www.arborday.org/

Holidays are coming. I'm trying to downsize and get rid of 'junk' I don't want or need. Consider Heifer International whose non profit work benefits so many worldwide, in so many ways. In past holidays I have given parts of llamas, goats, waterbuffaloes LOL, saplings, bunnies and ducks as gifts or stocking stuffers. How can you miss? You just haven't lived until you've given someone a waterbuffalo part for the holidays!
http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/

For years, both pre and post 9/11, I have dug, packed, and transported many little pines, cedars, birches and maple saplings from our family cabin in the midwest to my own yard/s and an oak sprout from my sister's yard that gives us the only dose of red autumn color here nowdays. TSA doesn't seem to mind at all. All have travelled in a typical school sized backpack, been transplanted at least once and 90+% thrive today. The 7 year old birches (below) are 25 ft tall! I search for little cedar saplings in our own woods to transplant for our use elsewhere in the yard. But I really enjoy getting a little bit of my home state to grow and thrive in our soggy, miserable NW climate.

The work of Professor Mathaai is very inspiring. And Laurie 1 I wish you well with your pear tree project in your area of the UK. I commit to at least 50 trees in the next 5 years, but I'm usually only stealing them from one place to another! Maybe they will reproduce and that will count for some effort?