Time to weatherize your drafty house? Interested in energy efficient heat pumps (also known as Mini-splits), electric vehicles, or solar power for your home or business? Find the information you need at the LEAP Energy Fair, Saturday, April 13 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Crossett Brook Middle School gym in Duxbury (5672 VT Route 100, Duxbury).
The LEAP Energy Fair is the largest in Vermont, and it's completely free. Tour 65+ exhibits and talk to experts about heat pumps, weatherization, solar power, energy audits, electric vehicles, electric lawn tools, financing, subsidies, and much more. Every hour there will be special breakout sessions on many of these topics.
This family-friendly event includes a free magician show, free ice cream, free electronics recycling, children's activities, and local food and refreshments while you learn how to shrink energy bills and save money. Brought to you by the volunteers of Waterbury LEAP (Local Energy Action Partnership). For more information visit https://www.waterburyleap.org/
LANDSCAPING & TREE WORK:
Find the https://www.mowelectric.org/ tent and come say hello! I'll be showcasing landscaping tools and how they have a quicker return on investment, less maintenance, and less noise pollution than their gas powered counterparts. I'll also be representing my services for mowing, landscaping like brush removal, invasive removal, light tree work (such as clearing around apple trees), and subcontracting w/ portable sawmill operators to turn your trees into lumber.
Do you have a dangerous tree you need removed? Ask me for a referral to ISA certified arborists that I trust! My passion is in coppicing & pollarding- an ancient practice to control the height of a tree. Coppicing can be useful for growing your own firewood or mushroom logs in a quicker manner. Pollarding keeps a tree short in height to not block a view, or prevent it from shading solar. If you have reservations about solar because your trees shade the roof- using coppicing techniques- you can cut the tree without killing the roots- and it will grow faster than a seed grown tree. From creating hedges to using tree roots to stabilize soil from erosion on steep hillsides- coppicing is extremely useful.
Do you have an ash tree you to want to protect from emerald ash borer? I'm pursuing a certification to do insecticide injections, or I can coppice the ash tree if it meets the criteria by my forester. Send me an email!
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