A Tree Is a Community

A Tree Is a CommunityA tree is more than just a plant, but a whole ecosystem hiding in plain sight, on street corners and in backyards everywhere. Discover how one tree provides shelter, food, and clean air to a host of animals and insects. Robins build their nest in the branches and bees gather nectar from flowers. The tree keeps its neighborhood clean, healthy, and safe. Leaves clean the air and roots keep the dirt from washing away. The tree's residents are safe

They can tap into fungal networks in the soil to care for each other by trading water and nutrients and to warn one another of drought and disease

It's a great place to store your wooden spoons

into needle-lined graves

A flower shaped hand built trinket dish made from a speckled stoneware clay

Her usual day when not in school was playing with the materials she found in nature around her: wooden sticks

and oxygen

they are still based in the United Kingdom

most recently the award winning film Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio

Mix colors

California

Ellen Surrey makes her colorful illustrations out of sunny Los Angeles

and illustrations professionally since 2008