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Bo tany professor and director of Cal Poly’s Plant Conservatory Matt Ritter said the university is home to about 50 cork oak trees, which are unique because they regenerate bark after harvesting.

But its bark is the cork oak’s claim to fame. Almost ghostly pale in color, the bark is deeply furrowed and springy, and provides an ecologically sustainable cash crop.

The brand also emphasizes the line’s sustainability. It says it will not cut down any cork trees, but rather will remove the bark from mature trees, which regenerates every nine years.

I felt it would resurface in the work I was to do here in Portugal.” In 2018, during a visit to family-owned cork production facility NF Cork in Faro, he learned about turning cork bark into blocks.

But its bark is the cork oak’s claim to fame. Almost ghostly pale in color, the bark is deeply furrowed and springy, and provides an ecologically sustainable cash crop.

Cork is harvested from cork oak trees in June and July only, and the harvesters use axes and adzes to cut into the tree and peel off the top inch or two of bark. The bark grows back, and the tree ...

Harvesting oak bark for cork, Alentejo, Portugal, copyright BKWine Photography BKWine Photography Recycled corks are used in various products. They cannot, however, be used to make new cork stoppers.

About the harvest Two professional cork harvesters from Portugal demonstrated the process of stripping the tree’s bark for approximately 100 attendees. Throughout the exhibition, Greg Hirson, global ...

HOUSTON - Cork tree bark has long been used in Asia to fight inflammation. "People in China, they take this bark, they actually make a concoction out of this bark, and that concoction they drink ...