Learn more about Northern Grove…
Since 2021, Northern Grove Tree Service has been offering a full range of tree care services, both residential and commercial - pruning and maintenance, cabling and bracing, standard and emergency tree removal, tree safety assessment, and planting.
Northern Grove’s services are based on a foundational philosophy that tree care must consider the health of the tree as a whole, and the health of the surrounding ecosystem as well. When a tree is situated within a thriving ecosystem, it is given the best chance possible to thrive, to resist pests and disease, and to live long.
Northern Grove was founded by business and life partners, Paul Kruse (ISA certified arborist and conflict resolution trainer) and Heather Unger (permaculture designer and lawyer by training).
A bit more about Paul
Paul has a long history of working with trees. In his younger years, Paul spent six summers tree planting and running tree planting crews in northern B.C. and Alberta. His career has come full circle, and he now takes care of trees in their maturity in his home province of Manitoba.*
He has matched his tree work with certification in permaculture design, and so approaches his tree work with the bigger picture of tree and ecosystem health in mind.
When not in trees, Paul works as a conflict resolution trainer and mediator. He also keeps honey bees and grows mushrooms.
*Paul is certified through the International Society of Arboriculture and the University of Manitoba’s Arborist Training. He maintains full insurance to protect against injury and property damage.
A bit more about Heather
Throughout her studies and work in international development and human rights law, Heather has looked for ways to facilitate systemic change and restore relationship among people and with the earth. She now helps people re-define their place in nature through permaculture design, consultation and education.
Heather imagines a world where ‘life springs up underfoot wherever we tread’, and so is pursuing certification in soil regeneration - an area that carries immense possibilities for the flourishing of all life.
When her hands are not in the soil, Heather works as a McGill-trained human rights lawyer. She also enjoys making big art, and starts plants and propagates trees compulsively.
*Heather studied Permaculture Design with Geoff Lawton of Australia. She is currently pursuing certification in soil regeneration under Dr. Elaine Ingham.
