Stump Site

Nora Whitfield

Illustrated portrait of Nora Whitfield
Writes the ground-repair guides

Nora came at this from the landscaping side — the part that starts after the grinder leaves, when there's a crater of chips where a tree used to be.

Writes About
  • Fixing the bare patch a stump leaves
  • Topsoil, seed, and what actually takes
  • Planting near an old root ball

She writes the soil and lawn guides, and is the reason this site covers the aftermath at all: most stump advice stops at the moment the stump does.

“Removing the stump is the easy half. Getting grass to grow where a tree spent thirty years is the half nobody writes about.”

Reach Nora through editor@stumpsite.com — corrections are welcomed and credited.

Also writing here: Dale Corrigan · About the site