Forest Friends Share

Forest Friends Share

$10.00

For those of you who wish to support the work of keeping our beloved Minnesota forests resilient and healthy, but don’t have land to plant trees, investing in our work here at the Farm & Forest Growers Cooperative.

 

Carbon mitigation

Carbon Sequestration

 

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Carbon Sequestration by Tree Plantings

The following calculations are based on a per tree “administrative cost of production” of $1/tree. The administrative cost of production is over and above the costs of growing the tree. At wholesale levels these costs are not being charged to our seedling buyers. It includes COOP expenses not incurred by the individual like storage and tree production, marketing, delivery, sales management, etc. Using the I-Tree Calculator…https://planting.itreetools.org/

  • Planting 10 northern red oak with a 3% annual mortality sequesters 6227 pounds of Carbon over the first 30 years of growth.
  • At January 2026 market levels this has an equivalent carbon trading value of $368 at the end of the 30-year growth period. • 10 trees have an administrative cost of $10 which returns $368 over 30 years if measuring carbon benefits only.
  • Yielding an APR investment return in sequestered carbon value of 12.87% o https://www.schwabmoneywise.com/compound-savings-calculator Offset Data
  • Driving 10,000 miles per year at 25 mpg produces approximately 8,000 pounds of carbon dioxide.
  • On a roundtrip flight from Minneapolis (MSP) to Miami (MIA), covering approximately 1,500 miles, A typically passenger emits 1980 pounds of CO2. • Sources: USEPA, https://co2.myclimate.org/en/flight_calculators/new