The Afterlife for Downed Trees

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When something gets mulched, what happens to it? Like, is there any kind of argument like, but we need the mulch? Or does that mulch go into a landfill with 30 diapers and banana peels? So on so many levels, I'm also going to try and keep a brief. Mulch in and of itself is great. It retains moisture, right? It suppresses weeds. The only thing is that there's a couple things. When a tree dies, right? First of all, we have, I think, culturally an aversion to death period. Okay. But what happens is we just want we panic and it's a nuisance and it’s a

What’s the customary 5th Anniversary gift? Apparently… WOOD! So we wrangled our favorite sawmill owner/operator of LA’s Angel City Lumber, Jeff Perry – who rescues downed street trees from the chipper and turns them into beautiful planks, boards, stumps and chonks. We cover everything from forest management to 2x4s, wood grain, burls, bog logs, sawdust, tree disease, asparagus tips, salvaged lumber, kiln drying, Westward expansion, Indigenous forest management, cedar whiff, and how working with wood changes your relationship to death.

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Other episodes you may enjoy: Bryology (MOSS), Dendrology (TREES) Encore, Mycology (FUNGI), Indigenous Fire Ecology (GOOD FIRE), Carobology (NOT CHOCOLATE TREES)

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