Trees are the largest living things in the urban environment and are the biggest contributors to vital green infrastructure, a city’s natural life support system.
Urban trees and forests are vital for creating vibrant neighborhoods, enhancing energy efficiency, and boosting property values. They provide essential green solutions for watershed and stormwater management and offer spaces for recreation and food production. Preserving diverse urban forests requires addressing challenges such as development, climate change, storm damage, age, and disease through active stewardship, including timber thinning, prescribed burns, invasive species removal, and strategic planting.
The selection of native species is crucial in urban forestry projects. Trees are long-lived and must be managed for the present and future generations. Our urban forest is not a uniform group of trees. It needs to be a diverse mix of different tree ages, sizes, and native species to deliver the range of benefits necessary for the community and to create a healthy urban forest. Ideally, trees should be attractive and uniform in habit for an aesthetically pleasing appearance.
Our specially developed StreetSmartTM trees are cultivated using patented RPM technology, ensuring 2X faster growth and resilience. These trees offer an enhanced appearance, consistent structure, and vibrant microbial activity in their balanced growing media, nurturing healthy soil. With lifted canopies for easy maintenance and straightforward installation, StreetSmartTM trees optimize plant performance and survivability, supporting ecological balance and benefiting wildlife. Our all-natural RPM production method yields rapid results, as our plants grow, flower, and fruit two times faster. Finally, StreetSmartTM trees are recognized for their resilience and unparalleled survivability, even in the most challenging environments.
So, what makes our StreetSmartTM so smart? There are five key factors:
- SOIL—Our balanced growing media offers vibrant microbial activity. But beyond advanced mycorrhizae, we nurture an exceptional soil microbiome. Our plants carry this living soil to its planting site, where its diverse microorganisms continue to help build healthy soil.
• MANAGED – Lifted canopies make maintenance easier. Easy to install, requiring less equipment and manpower.
• ADDS BALANCE for the environment. Known seed provenance maximizes plant performance and survivability in our trees. We code seedlings for use in their source region. This supports ecological balance and benefits wildlife.
• RPM – Our all-natural RPM-production method yields twice the results in half the time. Studies show our RPM-produced plants grow, flower, and fruit two times faster.
• TOUGH – Like all Forrest Keeling native stock, StreetSmartTM native trees are resilient. They display unsurpassed survivability on even the toughest sites. StreetSmartTM trees are SO SMART!
We find that native species are excellent choices for urban forestry projects. Forrest Keeling grows a vast selection of native plants. And we produce them using our patented RPM-production technology. RPM production offers superior survivability with 2X faster growth. Native species are important to our mission to ‘restore Earth’s ecosystem one tree at a time’. We have the inventory and expertise to help you with restoration projects of any scope. In the backyard or the back forty! Contact a team member during the planning phase of your urban forestry project. We can give recommendations and information on native plant availability.
Forrest Keeling… it’s where the best trees begin!