Aerial view of Urban Forest Nursery showing rows of trees, nursery stock, and landscaped growing areas

Aerial view of Urban Forest Nursery showing rows of trees, nursery stock, and landscaped growing areas

Grow bag nursery system

Learn How-with Grow Bags!

Bring the industry’s leading expertise directly into your organization—using the in-ground grow bag system. UFN founder Jim Barborinas offers consulting to growers, municipalities, landscape architects, and tree care professionals to elevate the quality, structure, and long-term performance of the trees they produce and plant using grow bags.

With decades of hands-on experience in structural pruning, species selection, and urban tree performance, Jim provides practical, science-based guidance tailored to your challenges—especially when optimizing grow bag production. Whether you’re refining production methods, improving root architecture within bags, training your team to manage bag culture, or building a more resilient tree production program centered on grow bags, Jim’s insight helps you achieve the highest industry standards. Partner with Jim to grow trees that thrive from the ground up—with grow bags at the core of your success.

Call for questions, visit our nursery for hands on training of our layout, methods and procedures, or invite Jim to your location to provide on-site instructions and directives to move forward on your own in-ground Grow Bag Nursery.

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Root Ready Trees

Healthy, root-ready nursery trees prepared for delivery

At Urban Forest Nursery, our trees are grown in fabric grow bags for dense, healthy roots and faster establishment. Minimal pruning, easier planting, and shipped ready for your site.


Tree Variety Spotlight

Discover standout trees for Northwest landscapes. Our spotlighted varieties are carefully selected for structure, adaptability, and long-term performance -beautiful, reliable, and root ready for your site.

Pacific® and Norwegian® Sunset Maples growing at Urban Forest Nursery”

Grow Bags

Abel and Jim showing a well-developed root system on a nursery tree

Fabric grow bags enhance root growth and reduce circling or girdling roots. We use High Caliper Smart Growing System bags for reliable, healthy root systems across multiple tree species.

Guidance on Tree Selection, Production and Care

Healthy tree root system growing in a fabric grow bag at Urban Forest Nursery

How We Grow Root-Ready Trees for Long-Term Sucess

At Urban Forest Nursery, we grow root-ready trees with quality and consistency in mind. From careful root development to rigorous

Ginkgo biloba leaf at Urban Forest Nursery

Why Variety Matters in Urban Landscapes

Every landscape deserves a tree that performs reliably for decades — and choosing the right variety is the first step.

RFID Tags used for inventory ar Urban Forest Nursey, Inc.

Tracking Trees: How RFID Technology Transforms Tree Inventory

Running a modern tree nursery is about more than planting and watering—it’s about precision of variety and size, processing of

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