New year, new gardening to-dos: Edit your garden to fit your unique taste

I take possession of a new home in early January, and wonder how to approach renovating the garden. The garden has many ...

Christmas is over, but what to do with the tree? These landfill alternatives can also help your garden

If you’d like to avoid this, you have options that not only will avoid harming the environment but may also help improve your ...
Hernando Sun

Ending 2025 with a quote: “Is that your blood on the guardrail?”

In composing lines for this story, I had a choice of good one-liners to draw from. As my wife knows, many of my antics are a ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Christmas is over, but what to do with the tree? Here are some landfill alternatives

According to the Nature Conservancy, some 10 million live Christmas trees end up in landfills every year. There, they are ...
KQED

Bay Area Christmas Tree Farm Gives Customers A Chance To Cut Down Their Own Tree

The Castro Valley Christmas Tree Farm sits in the East Bay Hills. With more than 12 acres, the farm has been in business for more than 40 years. Unlike a lot of farms these days, the main focus is the ...
The Laconia Daily Sun

Forest Society offers unique opportunity to cut Christmas tree

Last Friday, Nancy and I decided to do something different. Instead of going to the Gilford Rotary Christmas tree sale, which we’ve enjoyed for many years, we said let's head North and cut our own ...
Chicago Tribune

Richton Park tree lot that was the setting for a Hallmark Christmas movie shuts down after 40 years

The Airstream trailer anchoring a roadside Christmas tree pop-up lot in the 2019 Hallmark movie “Christmas Under The Stars” was fictional, but the tree lot setting was not. Based on a story by Park ...
People

Chainsaw-Wielding Vandals Chop Down Monumental Christmas Tree Moments After Villagers Gathered to Switch on Lights

The tree in County Durham, England, had stood for over a decade before it fell on Wednesday, Dec. 10 St Saviour's, Shotton Colliery Facebook; Peterlee Police Facebook On Wednesday, Dec. 10, a ...
IFLScience

A 4,900-Year-Old Tree Called Prometheus Was Once The World's Oldest. Then, A Scientist Cut It Down

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...
Florida Today

Cut down your own Christmas tree at this Florida national forest

You can cut down your own Christmas tree in Florida's Ocala National Forest. A $10 permit is required for each tree and can be purchased online. Tree cutting is only allowed in two specific, ...
The Post-Crescent

For 75 of its 145 years, Elm Tree Bakery was owned by the Pfefferles

If you've been around the Fox Cities for a while, you may remember Rich’s Products, once located at 3300 W. College Ave. in Grand Chute, but did you know that for 75 years the bakery was once owned by ...
ProPublica

Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without ...