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We work with landowners, land managers, businesses, and organizations to plant trees on farms. 10 years ago, we didn’t understand why “agroforestry design” didn’t come with a business plan, so we started doing it ourselves. Though we’ve planted over 200,000 trees with our clients and partners, we’re not *just* a tree planting contractor. We help our clients develop a vision for their land, and then actualize it. We balance long-term landscape function with the realistic next steps of today. We’ve planted over 30 farms to date, and we’d love to make trees happen on your land.

We work with landowners, land managers, businesses, and organizations to plant trees on farms. 10 years ago, we didn’t understand why “agroforestry design” didn’t come with a business plan, so we started doing it ourselves. Though we’ve planted over 200,000 trees with our clients and partners, we’re not *just* a tree planting contractor. We help our clients develop a vision for their land, and then actualize it. We balance long-term landscape function with the realistic next steps of today. We’ve planted over 30 farms to date, and we’d love to make trees happen on your land.

We work with landowners, land managers, businesses, and organizations to plant trees on farms. 10 years ago, we didn’t understand why “agroforestry design” didn’t come with a business plan, so we started doing it ourselves. Though we’ve planted over 200,000 trees with our clients and partners, we’re not *just* a tree planting contractor. We help our clients develop a vision for their land, and then actualize it. We balance long-term landscape function with the realistic next steps of today. We’ve planted over 30 farms to date, and we’d love to make trees happen on your land.

We work with landowners, land managers, businesses, and organizations to plant trees on farms. 10 years ago, we didn’t understand why “agroforestry design” didn’t come with a business plan, so we started doing it ourselves. Though we’ve planted over 200,000 trees with our clients and partners, we’re not *just* a tree planting contractor. We help our clients develop a vision for their land, and then actualize it. We balance long-term landscape function with the realistic next steps of today. We’ve planted over 30 farms to date, and we’d love to make trees happen on your land.

We work with landowners, land managers, businesses, and organizations to plant trees on farms. 10 years ago, we didn’t understand why “agroforestry design” didn’t come with a business plan, so we started doing it ourselves. Though we’ve planted over 200,000 trees with our clients and partners, we’re not *just* a tree planting contractor. We help our clients develop a vision for their land, and then actualize it. We balance long-term landscape function with the realistic next steps of today. We’ve planted over 30 farms to date, and we’d love to make trees happen on your land.

We plant trees on farms.
But we’re often asked *how* we work.

Trees produce benefit for the environment and society: clean water, clean air, biodiversity, flood mitigation, climate stability. Some tree planting is funded publicly, and for the most part those trees are strictly for conservation.

But we plant profitable tree systems that yield those same ecological benefits. And we move faster.

We founded Propagate in 2017 with the mission of scaling and replicating agroforestry into a cornerstone of farming. We’re business people, and we know private enterprise is the most responsive, reliable, and innovative way to change land.

We move fast and plant trees.
Come work with us.

We plant trees on farms.
But we’re often asked *how* we work.

Trees produce benefit for the environment and society: clean water, clean air, biodiversity, flood mitigation, climate stability. Some tree planting is funded publicly, and for the most part those trees are strictly for conservation.

But we plant profitable tree systems that yield those same ecological benefits. And we move faster.

We founded Propagate in 2017 with the mission of scaling and replicating agroforestry into a cornerstone of farming. We’re business people, and we know private enterprise is the most responsive, reliable, and innovative way to change land.

We move fast and plant trees.
Come work with us.

We plant trees on farms.
But we’re often asked *how* we work.

Trees produce benefit for the environment and society: clean water, clean air, biodiversity, flood mitigation, climate stability. Some tree planting is funded publicly, and for the most part those trees are strictly for conservation.

But we plant profitable tree systems that yield those same ecological benefits. And we move faster.

We founded Propagate in 2017 with the mission of scaling and replicating agroforestry into a cornerstone of farming. We’re business people, and we know private enterprise is the most responsive, reliable, and innovative way to change land.

We move fast and plant trees.
Come work with us.

We plant trees on farms.
But we’re often asked *how* we work.

Trees produce benefit for the environment and society: clean water, clean air, biodiversity, flood mitigation, climate stability. Some tree planting is funded publicly, and for the most part those trees are strictly for conservation.

But we plant profitable tree systems that yield those same ecological benefits. And we move faster.

We founded Propagate in 2017 with the mission of scaling and replicating agroforestry into a cornerstone of farming. We’re business people, and we know private enterprise is the most responsive, reliable, and innovative way to change land.

We move fast and plant trees.
Come work with us.

We plant trees on farms.
But we’re often asked *how* we work.

Trees produce benefit for the environment and society: clean water, clean air, biodiversity, flood mitigation, climate stability. Some tree planting is funded publicly, and for the most part those trees are strictly for conservation.

But we plant profitable tree systems that yield those same ecological benefits. And we move faster.

We founded Propagate in 2017 with the mission of scaling and replicating agroforestry into a cornerstone of farming. We’re business people, and we know private enterprise is the most responsive, reliable, and innovative way to change land.

We move fast and plant trees.
Come work with us.

We plant trees on farms.
But we’re often asked *how* we work.

Trees produce benefit for the environment and society: clean water, clean air, biodiversity, flood mitigation, climate stability. Some tree planting is funded publicly, and for the most part those trees are strictly for conservation.

But we plant profitable tree systems that yield those same ecological benefits. And we move faster.

We founded Propagate in 2017 with the mission of scaling and replicating agroforestry into a cornerstone of farming. We’re business people, and we know private enterprise is the most responsive, reliable, and innovative way to change land.

We move fast and plant trees.
Come work with us.

We plant trees on farms.
But we’re often asked *how* we work.

Trees produce benefit for the environment and society: clean water, clean air, biodiversity, flood mitigation, climate stability. Some tree planting is funded publicly, and for the most part those trees are strictly for conservation.

But we plant profitable tree systems that yield those same ecological benefits. And we move faster.

We founded Propagate in 2017 with the mission of scaling and replicating agroforestry into a cornerstone of farming. We’re business people, and we know private enterprise is the most responsive, reliable, and innovative way to change land.

We move fast and plant trees.
Come work with us.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

Plant The Trees Podcast 026: Amelia Baxter is the CEO and co-founder of @wholetrees. Now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts, and link in the bio.

WholeTrees Architecture and Structures uses structural round timber (literal whole trees) to create durable, functional, aesthetically-breathtaking buildings and features of the built environment. The company was founded in 2007 to develop and sell products and technologies that would scale the use of underutilized or waste-trees in commercial construction. This increases forest revenues, and offers green construction markets a new material for the 21st century.

Whole Trees uses species from the classic conifers to rot-resistant white oak and black locust.

We talked about how round timber can be dramatically stronger than milled lumber, designing buildings that feel like forests and how wood naturally calms the nervous system, how black locust behaves more like stone than it does wood, profit plus ecological balance as the definition of prosperity, and how structural round timber can re-shape rural forest economies.

Please welcome Amelia Baxter.

To mill lumber, you need trees.
To justify planting timber trees, you need markets.
The circular economy principles are strong here, and we’re thrilled to partner with @robidecking to grow, mill, and proliferate black locust in the built environment.

To mill lumber, you need trees.
To justify planting timber trees, you need markets.
The circular economy principles are strong here, and we’re thrilled to partner with @robidecking to grow, mill, and proliferate black locust in the built environment.

To mill lumber, you need trees.
To justify planting timber trees, you need markets.
The circular economy principles are strong here, and we’re thrilled to partner with @robidecking to grow, mill, and proliferate black locust in the built environment.

To mill lumber, you need trees.
To justify planting timber trees, you need markets.
The circular economy principles are strong here, and we’re thrilled to partner with @robidecking to grow, mill, and proliferate black locust in the built environment.

To mill lumber, you need trees.
To justify planting timber trees, you need markets.
The circular economy principles are strong here, and we’re thrilled to partner with @robidecking to grow, mill, and proliferate black locust in the built environment.

Black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia is a fast-growing hardwood native to the Allegheny Plateau and surrounding bioregions. The fence posts and milled lumber it yields are extremely durable, and rot-resistant like teak and mahogany.

Black locust grows 1/2” thorns on its juvenile wood, and the trees grow out of them at 5 inches in diameter. The large 3-7” thorns you may have seen are on honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), which is an entirely different tree species.

Black locust lumber is in high demand, and @robidecking is your source for milled boards. For breathtaking structural round timber in elevated architecture, please reach out to @wholetrees.

If you’d like to plant black locust (or other trees) on non-forested land that you own or manage, comment “Locust” and we’ll gut check your land and get you what you need.

🌳 🤝Big news. We have partnered with @propagate_ag to scale domestically grown Black Locust for premium outdoor wood products.

This partnership will expand supply and grow demand of North America’s strongest, most rot-resistant native hardwood available for decking, siding, and outdoor building products.

Read the full announcement at the link in our bio

#robidecking #robidecking® #robi #propagate

I’m a huge fan of this tree. We harvest fence posts, mill it for lumber, and plant thousands of black locust saplings every year. It’s great for bees, provides shade for livestock, and it’s a profitable farm asset.

Black locust is native to the Allegheny Plateau and surrounding bioregions. It sends up shoots from the roots, but it doesn’t grow in the shade, so it won’t displace existing forest. It has 1/2” thorns on its juvenile wood, but the tree loses its thorns on trunks and branches over 5” in diameter.

If you’ve seen large multi-prong thorns on a locust tree, that is honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos), which is a totally different tree species.

As with most things: you get out of it what you put into it, and black locust requires more active management than pine trees do.

If you’d like to plant trees on *open* land that you own or manage, comment “Locust,” and I’ll send you more information.

American chestnuts have incredible branding: nostalgia, ecology, and patriotism. But they’re not as actionable as blight-resistant Castanea mollissima and mollissima-dentata hybrid chestnuts.

We’ve planted over 150,000 chestnuts on farmland in the eastern United States. Follow along if you’d like to learn more, and send me a message if you’d like to plant *chestnuts that live* on non-forested land that you own or manage.

I love paying taxes. Doesn’t everyone?
The federal and state governments already fund *some* tree planting (not a meaningful amount), but it can be easier and more efficient to just do it yourself.
Take the write off, create an appreciating timber asset, and increase biodiversity all at the same time.

Comment “Timber” and I’ll send you info on the tree species we plant to make this happen.

Chestnuts are making a comeback, but not in the way you may have heard about. Chinese chestnuts are a viable tree crop for US farmland, and we’ve planted over 150,000 of them. If you’d like to learn more, comment “chestnuts” and I’ll send you more information.

Costa Rica is a tropical country, just north of Panama, and it has one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Quite a few years ago now, they dissolved their military and placed their focus on services. Not just education and public health, but ecosystem services. Water quality, flood mitigation, biodiversity, weather stability…

I first met @scottplantstrees at an agroforestry course in Iowa in 2014, and we met up again in Costa Rica in 2022. Scott is an agroforestry practitioner based in Costa Rica, and has worked there for over a decade. Today we dove into the agriculture, agroforestry, and agrotourism of Costa Rica. We talked about how trees create experiences, and how recreation might be the most accessible ecosystem service for farmers.

We talked syntropic farming, and making it accessible. Understory and overstory tree crops, perennial vegetables, how we *experience* some of the best food you can grow.

How do you design agroforestry for a hospitality operation? Where is the overlap between agrotourism in Costa Rica, The United States, and Italy? Without further ado, please welcome Scott Gallant.

Costa Rica is a tropical country, just north of Panama, and it has one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Quite a few years ago now, they dissolved their military and placed their focus on services. Not just education and public health, but ecosystem services. Water quality, flood mitigation, biodiversity, weather stability…

I first met @scottplantstrees at an agroforestry course in Iowa in 2014, and we met up again in Costa Rica in 2022. Scott is an agroforestry practitioner based in Costa Rica, and has worked there for over a decade. Today we dove into the agriculture, agroforestry, and agrotourism of Costa Rica. We talked about how trees create experiences, and how recreation might be the most accessible ecosystem service for farmers.

We talked syntropic farming, and making it accessible. Understory and overstory tree crops, perennial vegetables, how we *experience* some of the best food you can grow.

How do you design agroforestry for a hospitality operation? Where is the overlap between agrotourism in Costa Rica, The United States, and Italy? Without further ado, please welcome Scott Gallant.

Costa Rica is a tropical country, just north of Panama, and it has one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Quite a few years ago now, they dissolved their military and placed their focus on services. Not just education and public health, but ecosystem services. Water quality, flood mitigation, biodiversity, weather stability…

I first met @scottplantstrees at an agroforestry course in Iowa in 2014, and we met up again in Costa Rica in 2022. Scott is an agroforestry practitioner based in Costa Rica, and has worked there for over a decade. Today we dove into the agriculture, agroforestry, and agrotourism of Costa Rica. We talked about how trees create experiences, and how recreation might be the most accessible ecosystem service for farmers.

We talked syntropic farming, and making it accessible. Understory and overstory tree crops, perennial vegetables, how we *experience* some of the best food you can grow.

How do you design agroforestry for a hospitality operation? Where is the overlap between agrotourism in Costa Rica, The United States, and Italy? Without further ado, please welcome Scott Gallant.

Costa Rica is a tropical country, just north of Panama, and it has one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Quite a few years ago now, they dissolved their military and placed their focus on services. Not just education and public health, but ecosystem services. Water quality, flood mitigation, biodiversity, weather stability…

I first met @scottplantstrees at an agroforestry course in Iowa in 2014, and we met up again in Costa Rica in 2022. Scott is an agroforestry practitioner based in Costa Rica, and has worked there for over a decade. Today we dove into the agriculture, agroforestry, and agrotourism of Costa Rica. We talked about how trees create experiences, and how recreation might be the most accessible ecosystem service for farmers.

We talked syntropic farming, and making it accessible. Understory and overstory tree crops, perennial vegetables, how we *experience* some of the best food you can grow.

How do you design agroforestry for a hospitality operation? Where is the overlap between agrotourism in Costa Rica, The United States, and Italy? Without further ado, please welcome Scott Gallant.

What if we could transform a low-value tree into a premium product? Curly poplar is a glitch in the matrix, and we’re pretty bullish on it for water quality, livestock shade, windbreaks, and farm income. It beats out pine any day of the week, and it thrived in damp soils that aren’t great for row crops grazing before summer.

If you own or manage non-forested land and want to plant trees, comment “poplar” and I’ll send you the full overview.

Also: image search “box elder flame.”