Sound on 📣 Some verbal and visual explanation of the varieties of disease that are festering behind cracked/bleeding/damaged bark.

All tree species require vital macro & micro nutrients for their growth, resistance to disease, optimal health and longevity. Tending and...

Removal of a stem canker infection on a coast live oak. It’s important to catch these early!

Surgical removal of infected tissue in a Coast Live Oak. You can see the bleeding of the tissue in the first photo, identifiable by...

Insect damage in trees can be hard to spot. Often there are only a few bored holes or deep cracks in the bark. Once we cut in to the...

Valley Oak Trees treated with limewash and our fire mimicry protocol of compost tea, soil minerals & moss removal. Located at the...

Without low intensity beneficial fire & Traditional Ecological Stewardship by Indigenous people, the health of Oaks and native tree...

This majestic, pollarded Coast Live Oak got the full treatment. Located in Chochenyo territory. A wetwood infection about 10 feet up the...

Bacterial wetwood, also known as slime flux, is caused by an infection of one or more of several bacteria. It results in a water-soaked,...

What would fire do? ~burn that sh*t off! It is a common misconception that mosses & lichens are a beneficial mutualism that is “natural”....

Sequence of a surgery on a Coast Live Oak. Insect damage wrapped around nearly half of the stem. Successful surgery indeed!

Scopin' out for disease on these elder Oak Trees! Never know what you’re gonna find livin' in there!

3 surgeries on Coast Live Oaks in Watsonville! With @kindred_herbs

The bark fell off about 6 months ago and revealed the dead tissue that had been decomposed by fungus. Once we began to cut into the...

Our custom compost is made in a small batch with deep intention & love! Composed with... •Local organic grass fed cow & sheep manure...

Out here clearing! Before & after of a tree that looked very stressed and totally transformed after some simple pruning. Fire clearance...

Surgical process of the removal of an infection on a Coast Live Oak. Photo 1: post infection removal Two trees grew together & created an...

Fire is a primary element of ecological balance and has been utilized by Indigenous people as traditional stewardship for thousands of...

Grandmother Oak. This ancient Coast Live Oak tree is over 800 years old. With clear evidence of tending and pollarding by the Uypi...