Climate breakdown is happening more severely at the poles and in the tropics than in temperate latitudes and we are having to adapt our Kenyan planting accordingly in order to build resilience.

The rains come much more intermittently these days and when they do arrive, the force of the downpour is more fierce than ever. It seems like the dry season is getting drier and wet season is getting wetter and both of these changes make it harder to do our planting successfully.

The image above is the entrance to our original Boré community nursery last week. In places the track was under 2 metres of water so that meant no vehicle could get in to deliver pots, shade netting or any of the other materials we need at this critical time when we need to propagate hundreds of thousands of seedlings for planting out in the next few months.

Our Boré Mau project was even more badly impacted as this region of Kenya experienced some of it worst ever flooding with the unfortunate result that a significant proportion of seedlings and polypots were washed away....(insert sad face emoji)...

Luckily the team were able to salvage many of the pots and when the rains finally stopped, both nurseries were back up to full propagation capacity.

Above - Post flooding repair work at Bore Mau nursery

Below - Bore Mau Nursery - almost back to shape

Bore Main Nursery - Now ready for the coming planting season

So what is the learning here? Simple. We must all work hard to reduce our destructive CO2 emissions whilst adapting to the big changes that are now upon us and building climatic resilience where ever we can.

'Let's Plant'