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Ecological Landscaping and tree planting

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Spring is the perfect time to rethink your gardens and yards: Less mowing? More pollinator plants? Food production? Native trees? Fruit trees or even a small food forest?

Even if you don’t have a yard, you can still bring biodiversity to shared spaces, schools, or places of worship.

Gardening & Landscaping Options

Invasive Plant Management: Control invasive species that reduce biodiversity in your landscape.
Pollinator Meadows: Support birds, bees, butterflies, and beneficial invertebrates while adding beauty to your yard.
Native Plant Gardens: Boost wildlife habitat, improve soil health, and enhance ecosystem function.
Edible Forest Gardens / Food Forests: Combine trees, shrubs, herbs, and ground covers to create perennial, self-sustaining food systems.
Rain Gardens: Capture and filter stormwater, improving water quality.
Lawn Alternatives / No-Mow Lawn: Reduce maintenance while providing ecological benefits.
Fall Cleanup & Leaf Mulching: Recycle leaves on-site to enrich soil, feed microbiology, and close the nutrient loop naturally.

Steps to Take

Learn & Plan
- Concord Sustainable Landscape Handbook – Overview of sustainable landscaping options.
Landscaping Services (Local or Regional)
- Green Abundance by Design (Wayland/Sudbury area) – Website, Phone: 508-904-8484
- Land of Plenty Gardens (Greater Boston area) – Website, Phone: 617-935-4025

Food Forests: Contact the Boston Food Forest Coalition for guidance on establishing edible forest gardens.

Deep Dive

How much carbon dioxide can a tree remove from the atmosphere? Over the course of a year, a young tree can remove approximately 6 kilograms/13 pounds of atmospheric carbon dioxide. By the time that tree is ten years old, the amount of carbon dioxide it can absorb jumps to 22 kilograms/48 pounds. Within 50 years, a mature tree has removed almost one ton of carbon dioxide.
How do trees help cool the atmosphere? Trees cool the atmosphere and ground around them through transpiration, the process through which plants absorb water through their roots and release water vapor through the pores of their leaves. On a sunny day, a mature tree can transpire up to 100 liters of water and in the process convert 70 kilowatt-hours of solar energy into latent heat held in water vapor. Without tree cover, the soil absorbs heat instead. This contributes to a rise in temperature not only of the ground, but also the surrounding atmosphere1. What is a Food Forest? A food forest is an edible forest garden. A combination of tall trees, small trees, shrubs, herbs, ground covers, and some annual crops, it’s designed so that each plant receives sufficient sun exposure and requires minimal care as it enriches itself with organic matter. Far from a new idea, this is a time-tested system of farming found all over the world, perhaps most famously in the Amazon rainforest.

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