Saving the environment by buying a real Christmas Tree

Making an Eco-Friendly Choice

Buying a real Christmas tree from Moon Valley Nursery is making an eco-friendly choice that will have a positive impact on the environment. In this age of environmental awareness it is reassuring to know that a favorite family holiday tradition of choosing a real Christmas tree over an artificial tree is still an environmentally sound choice.

Real Christmas trees benefit the environment

Tree farms support complex eco-systems. Christmas tree farms stabilize soil, protect water supplies and provide refuge for wildlife while creating scenic green belts. Often, Christmas trees are grown on soils that could not support other crops.

Real Christmas trees absorb carbon dioxide and other gases, emitting fresh oxygen. This helps prevent the earth-warming "greenhouse effect". One acre of Christmas trees produces the daily oxygen requirement for 18 people. With approximately one million acres producing Christmas trees in the United States that translates into oxygen for 18 million people every day. For every real Christmas tree harvested, three seedlings are planted in its place.

Real Christmas trees are a recyclable resource. Artificial trees consist of plastics and metals that aren't biodegradable. When disposed of artificial trees will never deteriorate. Their effects on our environment are evident and will remain for countless generations. In contrast, real trees are usually disposed of not in landfills but by being chipped up for landscaping or put into lakes and ponds for smaller fish to survive, continuing the cycle of life.

Moon Valley Nursery invites you to give a gift back to the environment this holiday season.

Go to http://www.moonvalleynursery.com/ to print out your Christmas tree coupon