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 Smith | Project Leader
YAY!! We are celebrating the new tree nursery in Enkutoto Nahalala supported by our generous sponsors. We are incredibly proud of our Maasai partners who are realizing more and more the very best... Read the full report ›By jennifer Smith | Project Leader
It is supposedly deep in the rainy season in Costa Rica but it is not raining. The meterorologists tell us it is an EL NINO year and to expect less rain. This time they are right! So our work is... Read the full report ›By Jennifer Leigh Smith | Project Leader
Earth Day is coming! And so are the rains. We are very relieved to hear that the rains have begun in MASSAI land in Kenya and our partners there are ready to plant. We will be sending more money in... Read the full report ›