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September 12, 2012

Arbor Day Farm Offering Special Events During Annual Applejack Festival

Nebraska City's Applejack Festival will be held this upcoming weekend, September 15 and 16, and the Arbor Day Farm Tree Adventure offers plenty of apples for those looking for a traditional orchard experience. This weekend's festival marks the 44th annual celebration of the apple harvest, commemorated throughout the Nebraska City community.

August 31, 2012

Arbor Day Farm's Apple Harvest Arrives Early This Year

Warm winter temperatures and a dry summer season yielded a slightly earlier-than-expected apple harvest at Arbor Day Farm this fall. Arbor Day Farm will open its apple orchards for fall harvest tomorrow, Saturday, September 1, according to Orchard Manager Adam Howard.

August 28, 2012

Campaign Launched to Restore Lost Pines Forest Destroyed in Bastrop Fire

Nearing the one-year anniversary of the most destructive wildfire in Texas history, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Arbor Day Foundation and Texas A&M Forest Service today appealed for help by launching the Lost Pines Forest Recovery Campaign, a multi-year public-private partnership to raise money to plant more than 4 million trees on public and private land.

August 17, 2012

"At Home With Nature" Book from Nature Explore Helps Families Build Outdoor Learning Spaces

Nature Explore, a joint program of the Arbor Day Foundation and Dimensions Educational Research Foundation, released a new guidebook titled At Home With Nature: Creating Nature Explore Playscapes for Families. The 120-page resource for families highlights research and case studies with descriptive photography and illustrations on how to create outdoor play spaces that encourage childhood learning and development.

Inc.

Let's Reject Greenhushing and Put Corporate Climate Action in the Spotlight

Corporate green commitments, once proudly announced from the rooftops, are now quietly whispered about and often tucked from view.

Grist

The secret ingredient in Biden’s climate law? City trees.

Planting trees in cities sounds simple. Here's why the Forest Service is spending $1.5 billion on it.

Washington Post

Mapping America’s access to nature, neighborhood by neighborhood

A city is a science experiment. What happens when we separate human beings from the environment in which they evolved?

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