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The Benefits of Soil Sharing for Trees

For the last two weeks of December I’ll be reprinting some of our favorite blog posts instead of putting up new ones. These will be on those evergreen topics that we can always revisit and apply to current projects. As this year winds down, hopefully some of these will be helpful as you plan for… More

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Video: See Soil Microfauna Up Close

Remember how exciting it was to use a microscope for the first time? I remember looking at our own hair in fifth grade (I went to a hippy dippy school where we could design many of our own experiments, and we were obsessed with the idea of conditioner causing “buildup,” which, is that even really… More

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Another Trip Around The Sun

We’re here again. That time of year when everyone seems to look around and experience mild confusion over the rapid passing of days, weeks, and months that has just occurred. It’s a time of gathering with family and friends, and of reflecting on both the good and the bad of the past year. 

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Manhattan wetlands?

After Sandy: Are Trees Worth It?

It’s been over a month since Hurricane Sandy whirled up the eastern seaboard, but its effects remain. Hundreds of thousands of people are still reeling and recovering. I’m from New York City, so for me it was intensely upsetting and scary to see my hometown underwater. On a phone call with my brother shortly after the… More

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Getting Started: Designers

New “Getting Started” Sections Guide Use of Silva Cells

One challenge we’ve always struggled with on the DeepRoot website is how to get people just the right amount of information: enough so that they can answer any questions they have and enable them to move forward in their projects, but not so much that they become frustrated and can’t find what they’re looking for. The… More

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Where's the tree?

Make The Place Right for the Tree

It’s a common refrain in arboriculture, and you’ve probably heard it before (maybe even here): plant the right tree in the right place. It seems so sensible. It is sensible! But it’s an incomplete rule of thumb, because it doesn’t acknowledge one of the fundamental challenges of growing mature trees in urban environments: the need… More

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It's important to protect trees during construction

Green Building from the Outside InPreserving Trees During Construction

Today’s post from monthly guest author Ellyn Shea is about a truly important, but often overlooked, issue: protecting existing trees during construction. I’m a sucker for success stories, and this is a great one. -LM Every time we lose a mature tree, we lose those benefits. A young replacement tree takes up to 30 years… More

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DeepRoot’s New Mobile Site is UP!

We are excited to announce that our site has now been adapted to smartphones! This means that when you want to use the web browser on your phone to find out more about our products, services, or distributors, it will be much easier.

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Video: Where Do Trees Come From?

This video by Australian company Veritasium about how trees create their mass – trunks, branches, so on – was originally linked to by NPR-crush Robert Krulwich. Would it be too embarrassing to admit that I learned something from it?

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