Facing Emerald Ash Borer?
Have you considered treatment?
Our Ash Magic
Ash Management Plan
Free! Schedule your assessment now
We assess your property and provide you with personalized infection timelines, time-of-death estimates, and actualized cost comparisons.
Too often, people wait until their tree is sick and dying and must rush to take action. Our proactive approach reduces this risk and ensures you are prepared.
Ash Treatment
Treatment is often cheaper than removal
E.A.B. treatment is completely effective, whether your tree is infested or not. We’ll deliver the safest, most effective, most affordable treatment option.
As a streamlined treatment-focused company, we have lower overhead than landscaping and tree service companies. We pass on those savings to you.
Ash Removal
We’ll find the best removal option for you
We research local tree service companies and select partners using our own value index so you’ll have local, affordable, quality professional to do your job.
We then use the power of numbers through our unique batch bidding process to secure you and your neighbors a very low removal price point with our partner.
Meet the Team
Ash Help is a father-son duo. We share a belief in maintaining a natural, beautiful world and preserving the urban canopy for all folks to enjoy. We work to share the benefits of saving the neighborhood shade. We believe in honest, old-fashioned business practices. We still embody the belief that our handshake and our word is our bond.
Unleash the power of nature
Embrace the whispers of the trees and discover your property's destiny with our enchanting ash tree management plan.
Our Story
I first heard about the emerald ash borer about 15 years ago while living in Minneapolis. I knew this was going to be a big problem because the ash is Minnesota’s most populous tree, having over 1 billion of them. Efforts to preserve and grow urban canopies is heating up globally as temperatures rise. Trees are the most important aspect of reducing the heat sink effect.
Air temperatures are up to 45 degrees farenheit cooler when shaded. If roughly 15% of Minnesota’s urban canopies were to be removed in a short time period, this will set us back from defending against future heat waves.
People moved infested firewood and spread the pest fire and wide, and the pest moves about 1/2 mile - 1 mile per year. It was made clear that sadly all ash trees in North America will eventually die unless treated.
Since then, neighborhood after neighborhood has been devastated by this pest. Once dense urban canopies have been reduced to open air spaces in many places, affecting the town-scape for generations.
Many people who have ash trees dealt with their problem by looking up one day and noticing how sick their tree was, they had heard of the Emerald Ash Borer, but they didn’t know when or whether they should take any action, even if they wanted to keep the tree.
Many people found themselves with a sudden large financial burden with little forewarning, leaving them scrambling to remove rapidly dying trees and paying thousands to have one or more ash trees removed. Some people (or their neighbors) experienced property damage from fallen ash trees onto fences, houses, cars, garages, and sheds.
When doing research on the topic, we asked many residents in throughout the Twin Cities, “would you have kept your tree if you had known that was a choice to pay for injection treatments instead?” The overwhelming answer was “yes.”
After watching this process unfold in neighborhood after neighborhood, I resolved to take action to stop this same fate in other cities and towns as this monster marches outwards in all directions. Working with my father, I launched Victory Sustainability, LLC. Our purpose is to find innovative ways for homeowners to personally create a more sustainable world using their property, and save money while they are doing it.
And it all starts with a shade tree.
Victory Sustainability’s effort to save the neighborhood shade is called Ash Help. Our mission is to proactively educate homeowners, businesses, and municipalities about sustainable land management and preserving urban canopies, and provide effective solutions to stop the E.A.B. chaos dead in it’s tracks.
Kaleb Lindsey, owner