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Theo Kithunga, one of our longest serving project officers shows that he is not afraid to get his hands dirty as he plants a young Neem tree in our Arsenal Forest 2 planting site. Theo is replacing seedlings that havent survived in the previous season's planting and once in, he'll

When the rains come late or in small amounts the seedlings need irrigating in their first few months. Here, team members carry water on to a large planting site to give the new trees a fighting chance

With the increasing variabilty of rainfall in subSaharan Africa, we often now have to irrigate our planted trees... That means a trip to the local standpipe and a lot of fetching and carrying with these 20 litre jerrycans!

Waiting for rain!! Eyes to the sky for some of our tree nursery team. The patterns of precipitation used to be regular as clockwork in Boré but the climate is changing fast these days. Now, to be climate resilient we have to get everything ready and then we just need to wait until

From nursery to farm 🌳 — the project's mega nursery is supplying drought-resistant seedlings that made this new agroforestry site possible, strengthening both restoration and community resilience. Proud to witness this progress during my recent project visit — made possible by Tree-Nation’s

A large school Casuarina plantation. This is favourite tree for our school planting partners because it can cope with extended drought, it is very fast growing , it grows well in sandy soils and it quickly yields a usable timber pole. The first poles ca be harvested after 3-4 years

In a drying post -El Niño climatic period, we are expecting that rain will be hard to come by in Kenya's Coast Province over the next few years. With help from Tree-Nation, we are aiming to improve our climatic resilience. Today, 5 large, new 10,000-litre water tanks arrived at the

After years and years of mostly drought it seems like we are getting all that water in one go now! Great news for the Neem trees on this planting site but unfortunately the grass is doing pretty well as well... After Christmas dinner (maize porridge and salted fish) the farmers will