Forest Garden Program

This project is a partnership between Trees for the Future and the cooperative called Fepromas in Senegal (Forest Garden Program). Local technicians will train 500 farmers on sustainable land management practices, develop tree nurseries and outplant 2,000 trees/farmer with a total of 1,000,000 trees (starting in 2021)

These trees planted by 500 farmers, resulting in hundreds of sustainable forest gardens that will rejuvenate the region, along with creating food security and revenue for the farmers and their families.

Farmers in the project area are being trained to practice:
• Forest garden design to achieve sustainable cocoa, palm, shea, and coffee production
• Nursery development
• Outplanting trees in a living fence
• Alley cropping with nitrogen fixing trees and tree food crops
• Integrated pest management
• Water management techniques
• Grafting fruit trees
• Composting
• Diversification of crops
• Crop rotation
• Permagardening
• Pruning for tree health
• Seed savings
• Use of tree leaves for creating fodder, soil amendments, and mulching