Stay Warm While Getting Your “Nature Fix” in the Trees

Stay Warm While Getting Your “Nature Fix” in the Trees

    Connections between trees and health are growing. We are waking up to health benefits of trees. Investigative reporter Florence Williams’s famous headline now makes sense: “Take Two Hours of Pine Forest and Call Me in the Morning” In her book “The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier and More Creative”, Williams describes and […]

Trees: A Natural Pharmacy

Trees: A Natural Pharmacy

See trees with new eyes.  The unexpected health benefits of trees are waiting for you. Tree air is loaded with beneficial bacteria, essential oils, and disease preventing phytoncides (oils that trees give off to protect themselves from germs and insects).   Diana Beresford-Kroeger in “Arboretum Borealis ” say Tree aerosols are anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibiotic,  antifungal, antiseptic and […]