Science is hot on trees. Connections between trees and health are growing. Trees are the new drug.

Trees might be more effective than statins in preventing heart disease and stroke.

The researchers will study cardiovascular heath. They will also track changes in crime, stress, economics, and social-psychological outcomes.

Mother Trees Get the Axe

If we think about trees twenty feet tall being used in the medical study above and go into the forest, we see big trees.

Big trees that have been around a long time are in demand. Let’s hope the ones in the research study come from a tree nursery. Let’s hope they did not come from old growth forests.

There are few pockets of old growth trees and forest, left untouched. These are the Northern Boreal forests. They have been “shielded by luck” as David George Haskell would say in his book ” The Unseen Forest.”

” The biggest, healthiest mother trees learned the tricks of the trade for survival…. and they carry the best medicinal tools geared to last centuries.”

 Diana Beresford-Kroeger says this in her book, “The Global Forest: 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us.” She says mother trees of the highest calibre produce offspring of a similar rating.

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 And as Kroeger says ” it is the mother trees that get the axe.”

 Kroeger says that trees are not considered warm blooded animals, but they are in fact.

Kroeger says mother trees work high up above the ground. These trees can defend themselves by “rapidly moving carbon cells that flash out spreading into the atmosphere…. from the tree.

The cells move out in the airways around the trees.”

She also says trees carbon swap under ground. Trees care for their children. And they look after others too. Suzanne Simard, forester turned scientist, discovered that Douglas Firs provide carbon to baby firs. She also found that mother trees change their root structure to make room for baby trees.

 

Simard helped identify something called a hub tree, or “mother tree”.

Mother trees are the largest trees in forests. They act as central hubs for vast below fungi networks.

A mother tree supports seedlings by giving them fungi. This gives them the nutrients they need to grow. 

What to Wear On Your Feet in the Forest 

Manitobah Mukluks are what you want if you want your feet to feel warm and cosy.   With these mukluks  you can sneak up on the fox.

Mukluk is an indigenous word for ‘winter boot’. Manitoba Muluks , now waterproof, are what they say:

“The original winter boot of North America. The warmest, most comfortable footwear in the world.”

The fur lining makes them feel like slippers. Forest feet. 

The soul is rubber for soggy days. On cold days the souls grip the ice. When you are  padding around the forest, these are amazing. You will  feel the forest floor. They are light. You can lift your feet over fallen trees with ease. You can be quiet in them. You can hear creaking trees. You will visit mother trees without disturbing them.

Get some Manitobah Mukluks, join the movie stars who love them. See a beaver lodge like this one under the snow. Notice the biggest tree in the landscape. Say hello to the mother, grandmother, grandfather, elder tree. Thank that tree for giving you health, happiness, wealth, and a long life. Thank the tree, the  symbol of immortality. 

Visit elder trees often.

And say it with me: Healthy Tree, Healthy Me,

 Verla