For more than 20 years, we’ve been using pine bark mulch on our own gardens, while mulch fads came and went. Dyed red wood chips ... kept their rich brown color, and lasted longer, so we ...

“I started practising at the age of 10. You could say that for 77 years I’ve been fiddling with birch bark,” says Pekkarinen. While wood is generally perceived as a robust and inflexible ...