Tree Tech Inc. of Foxboro is a strong supporter of environmental stewardship and we need your help to support a new “National Tree Planting Program.”  The Small Business Environmental Stewardship Assistance Act (H.R. 4509) would reauthorize the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) “National Tree Planting Program.” Administered by the SBA, this matching grant program would leverage [...]

According to Horticulture Weekly, around 2,000 trees will be felled and replaced with 10,000 new conifers next winter in Bourne Wood near Farnham, Surrey, which doubled as Sherwood Forest for the film Robin Hood.
“Replanting is vital for sustainable forestry and in helping to combat climate change,” said a representative for the Forestry Commission, which owns [...]

As part of Massachusett’s Asian Longhorn Beetle Cooperative Eradication Program, Tree Tech has been certified to remove trees and perform work to prevent the spread of ALB throughout the greater Worcester area. Efforts include treating potential “host” trees in the spring. But spring is short in Massachusetts, so last fall a new treatment was attempted. [...]

Most tree and shrub diseases affecting plants are fungal in nature. Fungus emits spores that travel from plant to plant by vectors such as wind, rain and bees. Different fungus attack plant tissue in different ways. Some attack stems and trunks of plants, these are known as cankers. Other diseases attack the leaf area causing [...]