{"id":12097,"date":"2013-06-06T11:06:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=12097"},"modified":"2013-06-06T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T17:14:10","slug":"free-trees-to-combat-global-warming-starting-june-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=12097","title":{"rendered":"Free Trees to Combat Global Warming, Starting June 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/brownandblack2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12098\" title=\"brownandblack2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/brownandblack2013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/brownandblack2013.jpg 418w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/brownandblack2013-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/brownandblack2013-400x312.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Brown and Elizabeth Black, joint owners of Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm, are pleased to announce that we once again have 225 small seedling trees to give away this summer, starting Saturday June 15th at 7AM.\u00a0 The give-away will run until all the trees are gone.\u00a0 This is the 7th year of giving away trees.<\/p>\n<p>The free trees are 1 \u2013 3 foot tall Russian hawthorns, Kentucky coffee trees, lindens, horse-chestnuts, choke cherries, ginnala maples, locusts, and catalpas.\u00a0 There are also some golden currants, lilacs and the aggressive North Boulder rose, which deer are afraid of.\u00a0 All trees are drought resistant, but of course will grow faster and fix more carbon with extra water.<\/p>\n<p>Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm is located on 13th St, one block east of Broadway between Upland and Violet. \u00a0Look for \u201cNelly-Belle the Carbon Cart\u201d in front of the house, and pick out your tree.\u00a0 Planting instructions are in a box on the cart. More information about planting your tree may be found at this link:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neighborhoodchristmastreefarm.com\/freeseedlings.html\">http:\/\/www.neighborhoodchristmastreefarm.com\/freeseedlings.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please be sure to plant your trees right away, and take good care of them.\u00a0 It won\u2019t help the climate at all if you plant a tree, and then kill it with neglect.<\/p>\n<p>After viewing \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth,\u201d Al Gore\u2019s movie, we decided we had to do something to combat global warming.\u00a0 Growing trees to give away seemed like something we could do to help.<\/p>\n<p>Although growing trees fixes carbon and helps combat global warming, it is not a final solution to the problem.\u00a0 The tree eventually dies or is cut down, and burns or rots, returning carbon to the atmosphere.\u00a0 But planting trees does help buy us more time to find long term solutions, and can make your life much more pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please contact:<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Black and Christopher Brown<\/p>\n<p>Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm<\/p>\n<p>4340 N 13th St.\u00a0 Boulder, CO 80304<\/p>\n<p>303-449-7532\u00a0\u00a0 elizabeth@elizabethblackart.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Brown and Elizabeth Black, joint owners of Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm, are pleased to announce that we once again have 225 small seedling trees to give away this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":12098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[112,33,796],"class_list":["post-12097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-to-action","tag-decarbonization","tag-gardens","tag-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12097"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12104,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12097\/revisions\/12104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}