Trees

Some of you may be thinking to your self. “It seems like every time they turn around Mark and Gretchen are planting another batch of trees. Where do they all come from?” Well, the answer is the Centre County Conservation District. They have an annual tree seedling sale where local residents can buy seedlings from a variety of species of evergreen, hardwood, and fruit trees for very reasonable prices. For instance, you can get 100 Colorado Blue Spruce seedlings for $56.00. Proceeds of the sale are used to sponsor environmental education programs within the county. Gretchen and I simply stick the seedlings into the flower beds around our house until they are big enough to survive where we intend to plant them. They are very small and there is always some infant mortality, but we always get more than we need and only transplant the healthiest specimens into the yard.