Category: protecting trees during winter

Planting Trees to Create a Beautiful Landscape

May 10th, 2023 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
Planting trees for landscaping

Planting trees on your property can be a beneficial for many different reasons. If you don’t have any trees on your property at this point, it could look a little bare. Adding trees to your property can create a beautiful landscape. Trees make the world go round. Our planet is filled with forests including trees […]

Why Composting is Beneficial for Your Garden and the Environment

November 7th, 2022 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
Composting for your garden

As we get into the month of November, you’re probably putting away your lawn tools and gardening equipment for the winter season. Even though we’re finishing up our lawn chores and landscaping tasks, we can still maintain our gardens in different ways during the off-season. Composting is a great way to recycle your food waste […]

How to Prepare Your Spring Gardening During the Winter Season

October 24th, 2022 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
Winter Planting and Gardening

What’s better than planting your favorite flowers, trees, and shrubs in the spring? How about preparing for spring planting in the As we approach the winter season, and yes, it’s coming soon, it’s important to start preparing for the next season of planting. Spend the cold season preparing for your upcoming springtime planting plans with […]

Plan Accordingly When Planting Trees

August 22nd, 2022 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
Person planting a tree in the fall on their land

Although the best time for planting trees is late winter or early spring, many people plant trees in autumn. As we near the end of August, the temperature will begin to cool and our thoughts will focus on preparing our kids for back to school, the seemingly endless parade of holidays and doing last minute […]

How Planting Trees Can Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

February 28th, 2022 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
- boy and man planting seedling

Given the current state of our planet, it is important to conserve energy and reduce waste anywhere possible. Energy produced from non-renewable sources, can lead to air pollution which negatively impacts our health and the health of Earth.  There are many ways to combat this issue and it is important to be aware of the […]

How Earth’s Trees are Disappearing Before Our Eyes

January 24th, 2022 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
Preserving our National Forests and Trees

Nations across the globe are actively fighting back against climate change and global warming. As the climate is supposed to change, human factors are speeding up the process causing destruction to our very own ecosystem. Deforestation also plays a major role in the downfall of our climate and ecosystem. Humanity has an obligation to cut […]

How to Attract More Hummingbirds Next Summer

December 22nd, 2021 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
Hummingbird in the Spring

It’s currently December, which means most homeowners aren’t thinking about their gardening, but sometimes it’s good to be prepared and ready for the warmer months ahead of time. Our favorite little birds have left for the winter, so it’s sad to think about them, since they’re not around right now. The good news is we […]

How Wildfires Are Affecting Our Trees

November 12th, 2021 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
Giant Sequoia Tree

Wildfires happen every year in the United States. Some years, they are more devastating than others with the destruction of forests, homes, and sometimes even towns out in the Western United States. Trees are resilient living beings, but they can be destroyed. This has been a real problem for our ecosystem and environment as trees […]

Importance of Planting Trees After Some of Them Die

October 21st, 2021 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm

Trees live long lives in the wild, but many do die off after years and years. It’s the circle of life working perfectly. When we have trees on our property, we can see them die off right before our eyes due to several different reasons. Natural elements like severe storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and more will […]

How to Protect Young Trees Against Frost Damage

September 22nd, 2021 | Posted by Coldstreamfarm
How to Protect Young Trees Against Frost Damage

Winter is quickly approaching, and that means that the temperature is going to be inching closer and closer to freezing in a couple months. This could present problems for any young trees that you have planted on your property. While many plants are capable of surviving harsh winters, there are some tree species that are […]