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Welcome!

Welcome to Sherwood's Forests Tree Farm.

We grow and sell Alberta hardy trees throughout central Alberta.

We grow mostly in containers. Our trees are large enough to miss with a mower, small enough to plant with a shovel.

Our customers:

1. The acreage owner whose dreams and visions are larger than their budget, and need to start with young trees.

2. Reclamation contractors who need trees that are larger than nursery seedlings, but smaller than conventional garden centre trees.

Come visit. I'll show you around the nursery, and around the farm. Even if you don't need trees right now, I'm happy to talk about possibilities with you, show some of my ideas about landscaping. They say, "Talk is cheap." I go one better: Talk is free. PHONE First. Otherwise you will have to ask the cat where I am. 80 acres works out to 3 million square feet.

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In this section:

• The SFTF Advantage talks about why our trees are special.
• Business Stuff is where you find our current (more or less...) price list and inventory, and ordering information.
• Contact Us has our snail mail address, hours, and maps of how to visit.
• Mission gives you an introduction to what we are about, and why we do it.
• Jobs is primarily for local people, mostly high school students, who may be interested in working for me.
• Site Map is a list of all the links on the site for when you get lost.
• Services talks about things we do besides sell trees. E.g. custom growing, planting, trees for weddings or parties, cut your own Christmas Trees, and even a grove-in-the-forest wedding chapel.
• Newsletter allows you to sign up for our newsletter -- it comes out now and then, and is full of trivia -- and links to our current catalog.

In the other main sections:

Trees

Descriptions and pictures of the trees we sell. These pages speak of what I know about the tree, its preferences for soil, light, and water, how fast it grows, shape.

Advice

Perhaps this section should be called Opinions, or maybe Notions. It's my take on how to do things with trees. Articles about shelterbelts, landscaping considerations, watering, and, eventually, oodles of other stuff as I find time to write.

Our Forests

Pictures and text describing my forests, and how they change with the seasons and the years.

Almanac

On any other site this would be called 'blog'. What an ugly word! I prefer Almanac, which captures the flow of seasons. Notes about what I'm doing, and seeing on the farm. My way of sharing a bit of the beauty and magic of my world.

Links

Sites and places I've found useful. Some are quite technical, some are links to suppliers with stuff that's hard to find.

Soapbox

We've all done it. Talking over the fence, or sharing a beer at the pub, we come up with an idea, a solution to one of the problems of the world. I've taken that one step further, and written some of these down. They aren't limited to trees, but most of them tie into conservation, stewardship, neighborliness, morality. Some of them even may work.

Site Navigation

I dislike sites that have so many links that you find yourself wandering in circles. Navigation here is in a hierarchy, much like the folders on your computer. General stuff near the top level. Specific stuff a few layers deep. At any point, the menu items in white show you where you are in the directory.

If there is a right-pointing arrowhead, there are more topics underneath. If it's just a ball, then you are at a 'leaf node.' You've bottomed out.

At the bottom of each page are a bunch of recommendation buttons. G+ for recommending content to Google. This helps my ratings. The orange circle squiggle recomends this site to Stumble Upon. You have to sign up to Stumble Upon, but it's worth doing. SU allows you to specify interests then spend HOURS wandering around seeing cool pages. The third one is Face Book.

All three are page specific. Please do NOT go through my whole page liking all of them. This gets flagged as spam. But if there is a page that makes you laugh, or fills you with wonder, or teaches you something, click one of those icons at the bottom.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, rants, or raves; If you want to be emailed with my current inventory when it becomes available; if you just want to know when major updates have happend, drop me a line.

Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood's Forests Tree Farm

We regard the following communities as being part of our service area. If I missed your community name, please let me know. If you are outside our service area, we will still sell you trees, but delivery options are more limited.

Edmonton, Sherwood Park, St. Albert, Leduc, Spruce Grove, Devon Ardrossan, North Cooking Lake, New Sarepta, Rolly View, Looma, Kavanaugh, Millet, Wetaskiwin, Falun, Hobbema, Westerose, Winfield, Navarre, , Menaik, Ponoka, Morningside, Clive, Lacombe, Blackfalds, Sylvan Lake, Eckville, Rimbey, Leduc County, Parkland County, Wetaskiwin County, Sturgeon County, Brazeau County, Lacombe County, Calahoo, Onaway, White Court, Green Court, Telfordville, Edson, Hinton, Jasper, Banff, Leduc, Rocky Mountain House, Drayton Valley, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Devon, Acheson Morinville, Calmar, Thorsby, Beaumont, Breton Pigeon Lake, Wabumum, Bon Accord, Gibbons, Fort Saskatchewan, Griesbach Parkland County, Seba Beach, Halfmoon Bay

(Did I miss you? Come for a visit!)