Matt Fredmonsky, manager of corporate content at Davey, shares his knowledge about the history of Davey Tree, from John Davey's start in tree care to the employee acquisition. 

In this episode we cover:  

• John Davey (0:45)
  • Davey's move to the U.S. (2:41)
  • The Tree Doctor (4:00)
• Building Davey Tree (5:13)
• Davey's Employee Ownership (6:09)
• Benefits of Employee Ownership (7:48)
• Davey Tree in the 1980s (8:36)
• Davey Archives (9:50)
• Doug's history with Davey (11:25)
• A Focus on Employee Education (12:03)
• Davey Tree Expert Company of Canada (14:27)
• The Future of Davey (15:25)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about  Davey Tree's history, click here.

To get your copy f Davey books, Green Leaves and Growth Rings, go to shopdaveytree.com

To learn more about careers at Davey, go to Jobs.Davey.com.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

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David Horvath from Davey’s Lake Bluff, office talks about the importance of having arborists inspect your trees before a storms, so you can keep your home safe.

In this episode we cover:  

• First thing arborists look for during storm prep (00:58)
• What homeowners can do to help arborists during storm prep (1:46)
• What an arborists is looking for (2:56)
• Oak Decline (3:31)
• The best time of year for arborists to assess trees (4:53)
• What time period has the worst storms (7:23)
• David's experience as an arborist (7:52)
• How the arborists career has changed (9:48)
• Keeping up with new pests and diseases (11:13)
• Importance of pruning for storm prep (12:33)
• Why you should have a professional do the work (15:48)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about reducing storm damage read our blog, How to Reduce Wind and Storm Damage on Trees.

To learn more about the importance of pruning before storms read our blog, How Does Tree Pruning Reduce Storm Damage.

To learn more about prepping your landscape for winter storms read our blog, Your Backyard Tree Checklist For The Winter Storm Season. 

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

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Luke Werner from Davey's North Pittsburgh office shares how you can learn how to identify the different types of trees in your yard.

In this episode we cover:  

• Looking at the big picture (0:53)
• Conifer Trees (1:33)
• Deciduous trees (1:53)
• How Luke learned to ID trees (2:03)
• The shape of your tree (2:40)
• Leaves (3:55)
  • Evergreen leaves (4:05)
  • Deciduous leaves (4:48)
  • MADcap buck (5:28)
  • Simple leaves (6:32)
  • Compound leaves (6:44)
• Do most homeowners know their trees? (8:01)
• Dawn Redwoods (10:04)
• Trees Luke likes to plant (11:40)
• How Luke became an arborist (14:30)
• Bark (16:50)
• Other tree identifications (17:25)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about which trees are in your yard check our tree identification blog series.

To learn more about how you can id your trees check out our blog, How To Tell What Type Of Tree I Have.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

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Adam Baker, technical advisor with the Davey Institute discusses all things caterpillars, including their benefit and specific species like the hickory horn devil, bagworm and monarch. Adam also shares the silver lining of the spotted lanternfly invasion hitting the East Coast.

In this episode we cover:  

• Most common caterpillars during each season (1:08)
• Is the hickory horn devil harmful? (3:00)
• Which butterflies are harmful to pawpaw trees (4:00)
• Benefits of caterpillars (5:01)
• Can caterpillars damage your trees (5:57)
• Bagworms (8:18)
• Fall web worm (11:00)
• Understanding bugs in the cycle of nature (12:11)
• How Adam became an entomologist (14:10)(19:51)
• How the monarch butterfly is doing (16:10)
• The spotted lanternfly silver lining (17:53)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about bagworms read our blog, Bagworms: Are They Harmful and How specific Can I Get Rid of Them?

To learn more about Adam's research with the monarch butterflies check out his article with  Maplegrove Magazine.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

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 Eric Countryman from Davey's East Pittsburgh office talks about fire blight and other bacterial diseases that can impact your trees.

In this episode we cover:  

• What is fire blight (1:06)
• What fire blight looks like (1:39)
• When fire blight is most prevalent (2:13)
• Treating fire blight (2:55)
• How to prevent fire blight (4:35)
• How arborists handle fire blight (6:52)
• Off the beaten path trees to plant (8:22)
• Black knot disease (10:57)
• Apple scab disease (13:02)
• Using fertilizer to help tree health (15:51)
• Eric's experience with tree diseases this season (17:21)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about fire blight, read our blog Why ‘Bradford’ Callery Pear Tree Leaves Are Brown, Black or Falling Off.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

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Lou Meyer, business developer for Davey's mid-Atlantic region,  talks about how Davey arborist deal with wood wastes and different ways to give wood a secondary life.

In this episode we cover:  

• Where does wood waste go? (3:37)
• Composting wood (5:19)
• Unique ways to use wood waste (6:07)
• Can homeowners keep their wood waste? (6:34)
• Biochar (7:42)
• Ways to use wood chips (12:55)
• Potential concerns of wood chips(14:00)
• Secondary life for larger wood waste (16:18)
• Unique wood types (19:04)
• Leaving wood on site vs recycling wood waste (20:38)
•  Wildlife snags (22:25)

To learn more about biochar, read this blog.

To learn how you can live a more sustainable life beyond giving wood waste a secondary life, read this blog.

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

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Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
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Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

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Chelsi Abbott, a technical advisor and education specialist at the Davey Institute, talks about the mycorrhizal network including how it works and how it connects to plants. 

In this episode we cover:  

• What is mycorrhizae fungi (1:14)
• The beneficial relationship between the fungi and trees (1:59)
• Seeing mycelium in real life (4:07)
• How mycorrhizae fungi finds plants (4:45)
• How big mycorrhizal networks can be (6:52)
• How to help mycorrhizae help your plants (8:16)
• Things you might be doing that harm mycorrhizae (9:13)
• Is mycorrhizae okay for vegetable plants? (10:00)
• How Chelsi educates through her job (11:59)
• What Chelsi enjoys abut educating (13:03)
• Chelsi's Davey Tree journey (13:40)
• Benefits of mycorrhizae fungi for the plants (15:56)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about the work Chelsi and the Davey Institute do, click here.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 
 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

 
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Thomas Whitney, technical advisor from the Davey Institute, shares some of his knowledge on different types of pests and beneficial insects. 

In this episode we cover:  

• What defines a pest (0:47)
• Pest classifications (1:45)
• The worst pest for trees (2:30)
• Which pests homeowners notice the most (4:16)
• Types of leaf chewers (4:52)
• Types of woodborers (5:56)
• Emerald ash borer (6:30)
  • Thomas' first encounter with EAB (6:37)
  • How to deal with EAB (8:47)
  • Is the EAB here to stay?  (10:41)
• The importance of tree diversity (11:30)
• Beneficial insects (12:30)
  • Predators (12:57)
  • Parasitoids (13:06)
• The balance of good bugs and bad bugs (13:57)
• Thomas' entomology journey (15:12)
• Thomas' research on linden trees(19:41)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.  

To learn more about the emerald ash borer, read our blog, The 101 on Emerald Ash Borer.
To learn more about woodborers, read our blog, Signs of Tree Boring Insects

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 
 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

 
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Dan Cohen, from Hartney Greymont, a Davey company, in Needham, shares some expert watering tips to keep your trees hydrated all summer.

In this episode we cover:  

• What's the first thing you think of when watering trees? (00:51)
• Watering newly planted trees (1:28) (5:32)
• How rainfall has been this season (2:51)
• How arborists handle dry conditions (4:00)
• Using tree gator bags (7:15)
• Watering ornamental trees (8:50)
• Properties using drip irrigation (11:07)
• The best time of day to water (12:12)
• The right way to mulch (13:50)
  • Rubber Mulch (18:50)
  • Gravel (20:00)
• What Dan enjoys about being a Davey Tree arborists (21:30)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.

To learn more about keeping your tree healthy during the summer, watch this ABC10 segment.

To learn more about watering your trees head to our blog to read all about watering.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

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Matt Fredmonsky, manager of corporate content at Davey, talks about Growth Rings, a new book about Davey's history and growth from 1962 to 2020. Matt, also author of Growth Rings, talks about what it was like to write the book and why it's important to Davey. 

In this episode we cover:  

• What is Growth Rings (0:45)
• The writing process (2:24)
• Why Growth Rings was written (3:15)
• How Davey became employee owned (4:25)
• How the Davey family reacted to employee ownership (10:00)
• What it means to be an employee owner (11:02)
• What it was like researching (12:02)
• How it felt to finish writing Growth Rings (13:42)
• Other milestones covered in Growth Rings (15:00)
• What you'll get out if reading Growth Ring (16:30)
• Where to get the book (17:06)

To find your local Davey office, check out our find a local office page to search by zip code.

To get your copy of Growth Rings, go to ShopDaveyTree.com.
To learn more about careers at Davey, go to Jobs.Davey.com.

Connect with Davey Tree on social media:
Twitter: @DaveyTree
Facebook: @DaveyTree
Instagram: @daveytree
YouTube: The Davey Tree Expert Company
LinkedIn: The Davey Tree Expert Company 

Connect with Doug Oster at www.dougoster.com. 

Have topics you'd like us to cover on the podcast? Email us at [email protected]. We want to hear from you!    

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