What’s the world’s most valuable renewable resource? It’s something everyone uses in some form every day, from books to musical instruments to homes to a heat source to food. It’s trees! From fruit trees to trees for lumber. A thousand different species! From their tiny seeds we can grow a forest, an orchard or a tree farm.

Using modern horticultural practice (thinning, pruning, weeding, fertilizing, irrigation, disease control), we can double the size of a…