10,000 Seedlings Ready To Go

Our nursery is packed with nearly 10,000 young seedlings right now. Our goal is to have these trees healthy and ready to be sent to homes by October. But our biggest challenge is financially providing long-term care for these seedlings.

Having steady money coming in through monthly donations support tracking each tree and paying each farmer to care for their survival through the dry season.

Currently, it would cost about $8,000 to add these trees to this pay-to-grow program. Right now we are regularly supporting nine farmers to grow young trees through this dry season, but we would like that number to be 900! Every donation supports our mission, and we’ll be launching our farmer sponsorship in the upcoming weeks to support farmers, their families, and the seedlings.

10,000 Trees Need Bags

Help us fill these bags! While we have enough steady income from donors now to support a few workers, we still don’t have enough to purchase valuable seeds for all these bags. Many are filled with sed trees and Rosnie has put cashew in some as well, but we need more donations to buy mango seeds and many other more expensive seasonal fruits. If we don’t get more support soon, we will have to only produce a few hardwood trees for the fall. Spread the word about the work we are doing!

Sed and Mahagony Trees Sprouting

The seeds were collected from trees just a couple of weeks ago. A truckload of soil was spread across the ground to sprout them along with any other seeds we collected. This week we'll transfer t the sprouts into bags, and hopefully, they'll be ready by May.

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We are fencing in a fourth piece of land that will serve as another protected area to grow trees. It’s in Cavaillon, has a water well, and a depo. We hope to add a nursery there as well. Goats and other grazers are a huge factor in tree survival. It’s easier to grow trees in the nursery than keep them alive in nature once they’re planted. By simply stopping animals from reaching them with fencing, we stop at least half the reason new seedlings die might die.