Green Options » root production method http://greenoptions.com/tag/root-production-method Posts tagged 'root production method' Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:50:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Baltimore Foundation Offers Conservation-Grade Trees http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/03/05/baltimore-foundation-offers-conservation-grade-trees/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/03/05/baltimore-foundation-offers-conservation-grade-trees/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:50:22 +0000 Shirley Siluk Gregory http://ecolocalizer.com/2008/03/05/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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