Posts Tagged ‘root production method’

Baltimore Foundation Offers Conservation-Grade Trees

Roots of an RPM tree (left) compared to a conventional tree. (Photo courtesy of the Parks & People Foundation.)Baltimore’s Parks & People Foundation is offering a special kind of tree sale this spring aimed at boosting the region’s tree cover quickly.

The foundation teamed up with RPM Ecosystems, a wholesale native plant nursery in Dryden, New York, to sell year-old trees grown with a root production method (RPM) that helps them grow three times faster than normal … meaning they can sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere three times faster than conventional young trees.

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