Plant This Cardboard Box to Grow 100 Trees

Really neat idea. If they can get the wholesale price down to around a dollar or so a box I think it would be easy to sell them. Here's how:

Say you're running a website that has a good sales clientelle for orders in the $25 - $50 range. Offer the box that you pay $1.00 for as an option that stands by itself for say $2.00 (a good 50% margin and you save the cost or a regular box in your s&h budget) or offer a reduced slightly greater s&h cost for shipments that can go in an available sized Life Box. How you do it will depend a lot on the computer routine that calculates your shipping costs and how flexible it is. Also there may be a technical issue with the kind of address labels you use or package sealing tapes.

Make sure you provide a good working web page that explains for your customer all about the Life box, how it works and how to use it .

Ed Weldon

Great idea, there are of course some probs, like growing suitable native trees in the right place.
I had some saplings in our garden planed by the Grey bushy tailed gardener.
I phoned the local council to ask if they had any designated areas where you could just go and plant trees. Of course I just got a load of beurocratic nonsense back...
In the end I just went and 'stealth planted' them on the fringe of some woodland. They were all suitable native species (at least according to the little grey fellah)
I try to do my bit to maintain the local (council owned) woodlands as I 'harvest' some of my bow wood there.
To try and do it 'officially' would be a nightmare.
Although many areas do have local conservation groups, and when the kids were young we enjoyed working with our local volunteers.
Del

I agree wholeheartedly with your approach. There are areas around here that have been fallow for some time but could use some good wood growing. I was thinking about an easier yet less efficient approach. Instead of transplanting the trees, I was thinking of just collecting the two tonnes of acorns that drop onto my lawn every year from my oaks and scatter the little buggers out into the open areas and let nature take her course.

Forgiveness is much easier than permission as you have found.