Boston Tree Preservation

Name

Boston Tree Preservation

Legal name

Boston Tree Preservation, LLC

Website

https://bostontreepreservation.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Boston Tree Preservation is a family-run, OMRI-certified organic plant health care company serving residential homeowners in the Greater Boston and Cape Cod areas since 1977, providing year-round organic treatments, soil amendments, and pest management through in-house biological amendment production and proprietary formulations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Woburn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Per-service one-time treatment purchases: Customers purchase individual organic treatments (Calibrate $245, Foliar 1 $198, Tree & Plant Diagnosis from $0–$150, Leaf Me Alone $181, H2Go from $279, etc.) on an à la carte basis with a 10% online discount versus in-person/regular pricing.
2. Multi-month service programs (subscription-like): Multi-visit programs sold as packages — e.g., Organic Tick Control 2-Month Fall Program or 6-Month Full Program; Skeeter Defeater 3-Month or 6-Month Program; Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Annual Program with spring and fall visits — function as annual or seasonal subscriptions with auto-scheduled recurring visits.
3. Consulting and diagnostic services: Property & Landscape Diagnosis / Landscape & Soil Health Audit, Tree & Plant Diagnosis (free telehealth, $150 on-site), generating professional-services revenue alongside treatment sales.
4. Tree injection services: Arborjet closed-system tree injection priced at $4 per tree trunk circumference inch, performed by licensed arborists as a discrete service line.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Boston Tree Preservation provides year-round organic plant health care services for residential landscapes, including trees, shrubs, lawns, and soil. Offerings span seasonal treatments (spring, summer, fall, winter) such as foliar pest control (Winter Moth, Gypsy Moth, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid), soil amendments (Calibrate, Liquid Biological Amendments, biochar), drought and winterkill protection (H2Go, Anti-Desiccant), tree injection (Arborjet), and diagnostic consultations. All products are OMRI-certified and NOFA-allowed, with in-house worm farm production of compost tea.

Product overview

Boston Tree Preservation's offering is a single integrated organic Plant Health Care service portfolio rather than a modular software product, organized as a year-round seasonal treatment suite (Spring Treatments, Summer Treatments, Fall Treatments, Winter Treatments) for the care of urban forests, trees, shrubs, lawn, and soil. The portfolio centers on the core Plant Health Care for Urban Forests service and includes specific named treatments such as Calibrate (soil pH), Foliar 1 - Winter Moth Control, Foliar 2 - Gypsy Moth Control, Horticultural Oil, Organic Tick Control, Skeeter Defeater, Liquid Organic Fertilization, Never Treat Your Lawn Again, Liquid Biological Amendments (Compost Extract), Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Annual Program, GrubEater, Beech Leaf Disease Treatment Program, H2Go Drought Treatment, Summer Save a Tree, Leaf Me Alone, Spring Organic Liquid Dethatch, Winter Soil Conditioner (Biochar), Anti-Desiccant (Two-Pack), Winter Moth Repellent, Tree Injection (Arborjet), and Soap Spray, supported by consultation services including Tree & Plant Diagnosis, Landscape & Soil Health Audit, and Plant Based Telehealth.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cape Tree Preservation: A regional sub-brand of Boston Tree Preservation located in Sandwich, MA, serving Cape Cod and the South Shore.

Products and services

• Plant Health Care for Urban Forests Year-round organic approach to caring for the entire landscape — trees, shrubs, lawn, and soil — using OMRI-certified and NOFA-allowed products and in-house produced botanical, biological, and nutrition-based products.
• Calibrate Combination of calcium and boron that quickly adjusts soil pH for a 90-day period, builds healthy cell walls and tissue, and enables diverse nutrient availability for trees, shrubs, and turf.
• Foliar 1 - Winter Moth Control Organic foliar spray using OMRI-certified Entrust to control winter moth caterpillars; no mammalian toxicity, applications usually done in April/May.
• Foliar 2 - Gypsy Moth Control OMRI-certified Entrust-based foliar application to control gypsy moth caterpillars, applied in May/June with no mammalian toxicity.
• Tree & Plant Diagnosis Diagnosis service for homeowners with declining trees or unhealthy plants, including free Telehealth for Trees photo consultation and on-site diagnosis ($150), with a targeted organic-based treatment plan.
• Leaf Me Alone Liquid biodegradation formula using prebiotics, probiotics, worm castings, yeast, macro and micronutrients to convert leaves and thatch into soil food for spring and fall lawn care.
• Horticultural Oil OMRI-certified Omni Supreme Spray used as environmentally safer oil spray for maximum insect control against Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, mites, aphids, and others on evergreens and ornamentals, applied in spring and fall.
• Organic Tick Control Botanical tick pest control product made of rosemary, rosemary oil, peppermint oil, cottonseed oil, cedar oil, and soaps, available as a Single Treatment, 2-Month Fall Program, or 6-Month Full Program with monthly property visits.
• Liquid Organic Fertilization Organic fertilizer mix of humic and fulvic acids, fish hydrolysate, dehydrated kelp, enzymes, organic acids, growth auxins, vitamins, and minerals, administered via soil probing/drenching.
• Never Treat Your Lawn Again Soil-centric organic approach concentrated on fixing the soil using compost tea, biochar, calcium chelate, neem cake, kelp meal, leonardite, compost, and limestone to help trees, shrubs, and lawn flourish long-term.
• H2Go Drought Treatment Organic yucca-derived (saponin) one-time soil treatment that breaks water surface tension to help irrigation and rainfall soak into the root zone, reducing watering needs and protecting fine roots through heat and dry stress.
• Liquid Biological Amendments (Compost Extract) Insect and disease inhibitor plus nutritional supplement made from in-house worm farm composted worm castings combined with humate, kelp, and fish emulsion, applied year-round.
• Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Annual Program Two-visit annual service with spring and fall OMRI-certified organic Horticultural Oil applications plus free in-season scouting to protect hemlocks from Woolly Adelgid invasive insect.
• GrubEater OMRI-listed organic treatment using beneficial nematodes (Heterorhabditis bacteriophora) parasitic to grubs, rootworm, beetles, aphids, ticks, and weevils, applied between forsythia and lilac blooming.
• Beech Leaf Disease Treatment Program Comprehensive assessment of beech trees, sampling of beech leaves and soil, and the 1st of 6–8 annual treatments, designed to support the health of beech trees afflicted with Beech Leaf Disease (BLD).
• Summer Save a Tree Per-tree application of H2Go organic yucca-derived (saponin) soil treatment to protect fine tree roots from heat and drought stress by helping water soak down to the root zone.
• Tree Injection (Arborjet) Closed-system, minimally invasive, environmentally safer Arborjet tree injection methodology for tree insect or disease control, available year round, priced at $4 per tree trunk circumference inch.
• Anti-Desiccant (Two-Pack) Fall and winter lawn care program with two-pack fall and mid-winter application to safeguard landscape from winterkill symptoms, reduce water transpiration up to 85% during winter months, and protect against drought, extreme cold, high winds, and lack of snow cover insulation.
• Skeeter Defeater Essential oil-based mosquito repellent applied around the house and perimeter of recreation area, available in 3, 4, or 6-month program durations with monthly property visits.
• Landscape & Soil Health Audit Comprehensive evaluation of full landscape (trees, lawn, soil, ecosystem) including on-site evaluation, Soil Food Web School soil test/analysis, follow-up consultation, and customized organic treatment/improvement plan.
• Plant Based Telehealth Free telehealth/phone or email plant care consultation where homeowners submit photos of trees, shrubs, or landscape issues for remote assessment with recommendations, or on-site consultation for a small fee.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduces watering needs by ~30% for 90 days in peak summer (H2Go treatment)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• Soil SolutionsmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1997Founder Peter Wild founded Soil Solutions in 1997 — the first all-organic soil amendment company in Massachusetts. Provides BTP's underlying soil amendment technology base.
• Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI)coreOthersBoston Tree Preservation states that all of its products are OMRI-listed (Organic Materials Research Institute). OMRI certification is the regulatory standard that allows the company to market and label its products as organic, which is the central pillar of its brand and value proposition.
• Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)coreOthersAll BTP products are NOFA-allowed (Northeast Organic Farming Association). NOFA accreditation is a parallel organic certification standard to OMRI and is repeatedly emphasized across the website.
• Arborjet, Inc.majorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerFounded and developed by Boston Tree Preservation founder Peter Wild in 1999, Arborjet is a closed-system, environmentally safer methodology for tree injection to manage exotic invasive insect pests — now the USDA standard for stem injection in riparian areas. Boston Tree Preservation is the originating company and continues to use Arborjet in its Tree Injection service offering.
• Cape Tree PreservationmajorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCape Tree Preservation is a "branch" of Boston Tree Preservation, located in Sandwich, MA, and serving all of Cape Cod and the South Shore. Operates as a sister brand under the same company.
• University of Massachusetts Stockbridge School of AgricultureminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerFounder Peter Wild graduated from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture at UMass in 1977 with an A.S. in Arboriculture — the academic foundation that led to founding the company the same year.
• Soil Food Web SchoolcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBoston Tree Preservation uses a Soil Food Web School soil test as part of its Landscape & Soil Health Audit offering to analyze soil biology and produce a customized organic treatment plan.
• Scientists and conservationists collaborating on Beech Leaf Disease researchcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner"Boston Tree Preservation (BTP), scientists, and conservationists are joining forces to combat this devastating disease with a Beech leaf disease treatment." BTP has developed a preliminary mitigation strategy and is collaborating with external researchers while multi-year laboratory and field trials develop a permanent cure.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• SavATree: Regional tree, shrub, and lawn care company serving the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic with integrated plant health care, organic options, and tick/mosquito programs. Closely comparable to BTP on geography (Northeast), service mix (PHC, soil, pest, tick), and growing organic emphasis.
• Mosquito Joe: National franchised mosquito and tick control service with multi-month recurring programs and natural/organic treatment options. Directly comparable to BTP's Skeeter Defeater and Organic Tick Control subscription-style programs on product, pricing structure, and target customer.
• Bartlett Tree Experts: National tree care company offering pruning, plant health care, pest management, and soil services for residential and commercial clients. Comparable to BTP because it delivers the same integrated 'plant health care' service model with arborist-led crews, though it operates at vastly larger scale and without an exclusively organic positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Asplundh Tree Expert: Large utility-vegetation management and tree service company with residential and commercial divisions. Comparable to BTP on tree injection, pruning, and pest management services, though predominantly serving utility and commercial clients rather than residential organic preservation.
• Truly Nolen: National pest control company with a 4 Seasons Pest Control model covering mosquito, tick, and termite management. Comparable to BTP on tick/mosquito recurring service delivery, though centered on conventional pest control rather than exclusively organic tree/landscape care.
• Davey Tree Expert Company: One of the largest employee-owned tree care companies in North America, offering residential and utility vegetation management plus plant health care. Comparable service catalog but operates at a vastly larger scale and broader geographic footprint; competes with BTP for residential tree care in the Greater Boston market.
• TruGreen: National lawn care provider with growing tree and shrub service lines. Comparable to BTP on residential lawn fertilization, soil amendments, and pest control touchpoints, but operates at a national scale with conventional (not exclusively organic) chemistry.

Regional players

• Spring-Green Lawn Care: Franchised lawn and tree care service with fertilization, weed, and pest control programs across the Midwest and East Coast. Comparable on residential subscription-style lawn care delivery, though less focused on the pure-organic positioning that differentiates BTP.
• Lawn Doctor: Franchised lawn care provider with tree and shrub services offered at many locations, including soil-centric and organic-friendly programs. Comparable to BTP on residential lawn/soil treatment delivery and recurring program pricing, primarily competing in suburban MA neighborhoods.

Emerging players

• BioGreen (organic lawn care): Independent organic lawn and landscape care operator offering 100% organic fertilization, weed, and pest programs. Comparable to BTP on the strict-organic, soil-centric philosophy and residential customer segment, though typically lawn-focused rather than tree-specialist.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/bostontreepres

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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