{"id":1713,"date":"2010-06-02T16:06:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2010-06-02T16:06:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:06:37","slug":"free-trees-to-combat-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1713","title":{"rendered":"Free Trees to Combat Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brownandblack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1714\" title=\"brownandblack\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brownandblack.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brownandblack.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brownandblack-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/brownandblack-400x308.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Brown and Elizabeth Black, joint owners of Your Neighborhood Christmas Tree Farm, are pleased to announce that they once again have 200 small seedling trees to give away. Trees will be available starting at <strong>7AM Saturday June 5<sup>th<\/sup><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The free trees are 1 \u2013 3 foot tall ginnala maples, Russian hawthorns, locusts and ashes.\u00a0 There are also some golden currants, bush honeysuckle and aggressive north Boulder roses.\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 13<sup>th<\/sup> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Please be sure to plant your tree right away, and take good care of it.\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 Elizabeth and Christopher decided they had to do something to combat global warming.\u00a0\u00a0 Growing trees to give away seemed like something they could do to help.\u00a0 Elizabeth built a deer-proof cart named \u201cNelly-Belle the Carbon Cart\u201d out of old bicycle tires, a pallet and some wire panels to house the give-away trees.\u00a0 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.<\/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 13<sup>th<\/sup> St.<\/p>\n<p>Boulder,  CO 80304<\/p>\n<p>303-449-7532<\/p>\n<p>email:\u00a0 elizabeth at elizabethblackart dot 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 they once again have 200 small seedling trees to give away. 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