Buckthorn Baggie kills invasive trees without chemicals

Every startup should have an origin story. Apple and its essential garage. The Wright brothers: two bicycle mechanics who invented one incredible flying machine.

The genesis of the nontoxic Buckthorn Baggie starts with trees that refused to die. The common buckthorn, one of the most troublesome invasive trees in the Midwest, forms a dense thicket that crowds out native plants. Cut to the ground, it springs back, Hydra-like, with up to a dozen eager offshoots that form an equally appalling forest monoculture....

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Ken Notes: Cool, we used to use Boy Scouts to pull and treat Buckthorn in our parks, this would be perfect!!!