Let’s try this again
We are still trying to get a truck, trailer and grapple dedicated to Trees2Products. Using the farm gear has kept us from achieving all we can. Slow but sure and steady wins the race, but we’ll see if we can…
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Trees
A Bus Tour Came
Wednesday August 8, 2018 was a history maker. A UNL Extension tour visited Slezak Ag & Natural Resources and Trees2Products. We shared how we got here, why we believe in sustainable utilization of our natural resources and what we are doing to…
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Benefits abound
Saw this biochar benefit graphic on the website for the International Biochar Initiative “Biochar is a solid material obtained from the carbonisation of biomass. Biochar may be added to soils with the intention to improve soil functions and to reduce…
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Urban Tree Utilization
We have joined the Urban Wood Network (UWN), to share knowledge and lessons learned as we work to keep tree removals out of tree dumps and waste burn piles. Many have been doing it for years in other states. What…
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What’s inside?
Get asked all the time if this log or that one is worth milling. They’ve been sitting for ‘a while’. It’s not a ‘great tree’. What can it be used for? Actually, someone at church asked this week if Chinese…
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GPBI Grant in the news
Our grant award is in the news… Thanks, The Nebraska Signal. If you want to follow along as we develop Trees2Biochar with material not suited to the sawmill, please like our Facebook page @trees2products. For more info on…
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Great Plains Biochar Initiative Grant Award
“Waste” to Value Added Product We are passionate about our natural resources. From soil to all things that depned on it to grow. When a farmer can improve the soil, they can decrease inputs and improve their bottom line. When…
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Stymied and Depressed
Can’t sleep. Have to be up early in the morning (this morning, Friday) and I can’t sleep. I would have thought to be over the mad. The hurt. The soul breaking pain. But I’m not. Some may think that’s over…
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Using our SCORE prizes
Shows how much “It’s All Connected”. Nature. Everything we do on the farm or for clients. Getting tools and equipment that have multiple uses, crossing over all our passions and jobs. I didn’t want to get consumable items with our…
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Not seen as an Expert
Expert: “An ordinary fellow from another town” – Mark Twain “A man fifty miles from home with a briefcase” – Will Rogers I brought this up at the Dallas Regional SCORE Training for the American Small Business Champions. Where…
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