Our Natural Approach to
Fruit Tree Pest Management
Using Nature to Nurture
Your home orchard
Arbor Ascent’s home orchard pest management program is designed to protect the health of your trees and improve your orchard’s fruit quality using natural and biological methods. Our approach is rooted in the understanding that natural ecosystems possess innate mechanisms for pest control. We work to replicate these mechanisms in your home orchard, while recognizing the unique challenges urban environments present. By supporting soil vitality, bolstering natural predator populations, and implementing highly-focused pest and disease management treatments, we have created a sustainable and effective program that eliminates the need for synthetic pesticides.
Healthy soil is critical for functional and resilient ecosystems, including your yard! Healthy soil can be pictured as a living ecosystem where soil microbes facilitate nutrient cycling, build soil structure, increase nutrient availability, and much more. Certain beneficial soil microbes, like Trichoderma species, have been shown to out complete and significantly reduce the occurrence of soil-borne diseases. Rather than using synthetic fertilizers that damage the soil (more on that here), Arbor Ascent’s biostimulant treatments effectively promote and support the natural systems and processes that already exist in the soil to cycle nutrients and help your orchard thrive.
Your orchard's success
Starts below ground
bring on the bugs!
Beneficial Insects and organisms
Predatory insects with very specific diets actively hunt and kill targeted pests, while remaining harmless to other organisms and your garden. They reproduce and continue to protect your plants over time. Other organisms like nematodes also have specific diets and can control unwanted pests without impacting other sensitive or beneficial bugs, microbes, and people. Arbor Ascent will actively monitor your property and introduce the best mix of beneficial bugs at the optimum time to reduce pest populations for a healthy and chemical free fruit crop.
Healthy soil is critical for functional and resilient ecosystems, including your yard! Healthy soil can be pictured as a living ecosystem where soil microbes facilitate nutrient cycling, build soil structure, increase nutrient availability, and much more. Certain beneficial soil microbes, like Trichoderma species, have been shown to out complete and significantly reduce the occurrence of soil-borne diseases. Rather than using synthetic fertilizers that damage the soil (more on that here), Arbor Ascent’s biostimulant treatments effectively promote and support the natural systems and processes that already exist in the soil to cycle nutrients and help your orchard thrive.
Your orchard's success
Starts below ground