We create seed collection networks within rural communities and capacitate families including women and children to produce the tree saplings. We use sponsorship money to buy the saplings, transport them to participating family farm owned by a Costa Rican family. We pay workers to plant the trees and build protective fences. For 4 years afterwards, we return to chop grasses and maintain the trees until they reach safe height for survival. We return to each family farm once a year and prescribed times, we allow the family to harvest some lumber through the thinning process. The family can collect all fruits. Our plantings are highly diverse native species. We also engage in regular edu... read more We create seed collection networks within rural communities and capacitate families including women and children to produce the tree saplings. We use sponsorship money to buy the saplings, transport them to participating family farm owned by a Costa Rican family. We pay workers to plant the trees and build protective fences. For 4 years afterwards, we return to chop grasses and maintain the trees until they reach safe height for survival. We return to each family farm once a year and prescribed times, we allow the family to harvest some lumber through the thinning process. The family can collect all fruits. Our plantings are highly diverse native species. We also engage in regular education porgrams around Costa Rica and the globe through building networks fo special tree friends. Our Mission is to create win win win relationships among people who want to offset their carbon footprint and thereby share their resources with those struggling to live with the remaining rainforest on their land. Giving local people alternative income streams long term by planting valuable lumber within each project teaches and empowers locals to plant trees for cutting instead of illegally cutting the rainforest. Planting trees in high diversity insures protection of flora andf fauna and watersheds.
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By Jennifer Leigh Smith | Project Leader
Our crews are siwnging machetes and digging holes like professionals that they are this planting sezason 2025. Thes fellas keep blowing my mind to see how they work so fast and expertly both planting... Read the full report ›By Jennifer Leigh Smith | Project Leader
We are thrilled to announce that we are exploring a collaboration with a new group of tree planters in Kenya presented top us by our leader Dalmas. We would like to combine our humble efforts... Read the full report ›By Jennifer Smith | Project Leader
We are super proud of our community leader in Kenya project who has been invited to teach at a university in Nairobi concerning what he has been learnng and putting into practice about silvo pastoral... Read the full report ›