{"id":1887,"date":"2013-12-22T19:22:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2013-12-22T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:22:51","slug":"buy-a-sustainably-grown-christmas-tree-or-re-plant-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/buy-a-sustainably-grown-christmas-tree-or-re-plant-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy a sustainably grown Christmas tree or re-plant one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to responsibly handle your Christmas tree purchase and disposal this year? A growing number of people do, so there are options if you&#8217;re willing to spend a little extra effort, time and maybe money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenamerica.org\/livinggreen\/xmastrees.cfm\">Green America reports<\/a> that you can buy a cut tree from a family farm that plants &#8220;about two trees for every one cut&#8221; and grows trees on rocky soil where other crops don&#8217;t thrive. &#8220;This means that instead of barren land, the farm hosts trees that provide oxygen and combat global warming.&#8221; But, you also want an organically grown tree to avoid bringing home harmful toxins or supporting the practice of allowing pesticides and herbicides to contaminate soil and groundwater.<\/p>\n<h4>How to find a responsible, organic tree vendor in New Jersey<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njskylands.com\/fmtrees.htm\">Christmas Tree Farms Map<\/a> for northwest NJ<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.njskylands.com\/maps\/map_farm.htm\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-12-22-at-1.50.41-PM.jpg\" alt=\"NJ Christmas Tree Map\" width=\"524\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1888\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.localharvest.org\/\">Local Harvest<\/a> helps you search for a responsible vendor near you, anywhere in the US<\/li>\n<li>You can also check with a local environmental center to learn if they can recommend a responsible vendor or call one of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickyourownchristmastree.org\/NJxmasne.php\">Christmas tree farms<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Search on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farmerspal.com\/search\/index.php?page=1&#038;q=christmas+tree&#038;clicked=&#038;c1a=295&#038;c1b=&#038;r1a=1935&#038;r1b=&#038;search=Search\">Farmer&#8217;s Pal<\/a>, another farm search tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Maybe you want to replant your tree!<\/h4>\n<p>For this laudable goal, take a trip to the Philly area and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsworks.org\/index.php\/local\/nw-philadelphia\/63033-sustainable-landscape-company-seeks-to-keep-christmas-trees-alive\">buy a tree that can be replanted<\/a> \u2013 in your backyard; by donating it back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyterraferma.com\/\">Tiny Terra Ferma<\/a> or to a local environmental center like the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education or the Upper Roxborough Reservoir &#8230; or replant it in a service event on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on 20 Jan 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with your responsible Christmas tree hunt and a very Happy Christmas to you! Let us know what your search turns up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to responsibly handle your Christmas tree purchase and disposal this year? A growing number of people do, so there are options if you&#8217;re willing to spend a little extra effort, time and maybe money. Green America reports that you can buy a cut tree from a family farm that plants &#8220;about two trees for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/buy-a-sustainably-grown-christmas-tree-or-re-plant-one\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buy a sustainably grown Christmas tree or re-plant one<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,101,183,67],"tags":[540,543,412,356,542,541],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-environment-2","category-nature","category-plants-pests-rescue","tag-christmas","tag-grown","tag-organic","tag-responsible","tag-sustainably","tag-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenwei.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}