Agroforestry Systems

🌱 Agroforestry is about people as much as it is about trees.

Through our Agroforestry Seeds program, children don’t just learn how to plant—they learn how healthy ecosystems support their communities and how they can care for them.

By combining trees, gardens, and hands-on environmental

🦋 The Monarch Butterflies have arrived in Mexico!

Every winter, millions of Monarchs travel thousands of kilometers to the forests of the Monarch Region. While protecting these forests is essential, conserving the surrounding landscape is just as important.

Through agroforestry

🌿 Clean air starts with healthy landscapes.

Agroforestry systems help improve air quality by increasing tree cover, which captures carbon dioxide, releases oxygen, and filters airborne particles. At the same time, trees provide shade, helping reduce local temperatures and creating

💧 Water and trees are deeply connected.

Agroforestry systems help restore the natural water cycle by increasing rainwater infiltration, reducing soil erosion, and improving the soil’s ability to retain moisture. Their roots create pathways for water to reach underground aquifers

🌳 Every school is growing, one step at a time.

Since launching Agroforestry Seeds, we have restored school grounds through four stages. We began by planting living fences around each school, followed by small fruit orchards where children learn to care for trees. Later, we created

🌱 The planting season may be over, but our work is far from finished.

Over the next three years, our team will regularly monitor every restoration site, tracking tree survival, growth, and overall ecosystem recovery. We also carry out maintenance activities when needed to give

📚🌱 A new school year has begun, and so has a new chapter for our Agroforestry Seeds program.

One year ago, we launched this initiative in six rural CONAFE schools in Mexico’s Monarch Region. These small, multigrade schools face challenging conditions, with limited resources and

🌿 Restoring a forest takes much more than planting trees.

Throughout the year, our team and local communities carry out ecosystem conservation works that help forests recover and become more resilient. These include building firebreaks to reduce wildfire risk, removing excessive

🌧️ As the rainy season in central Mexico is slowly coming to an end, so does our planting season.

Over the past months, together with local communities, we have established new forests and agroforestry systems across the Monarch Region. Now, our final restoration projects are being

Agroforestry systems are more than a way to restore the land—they create spaces where biodiversity can thrive. 🌱🐝 By combining native trees, shrubs and crops, these systems provide food, shelter and nesting sites for pollinators throughout the year.

This agroforestry system is

🌱 Environmental restoration is not only about planting trees—it is also about growing knowledge.

Through our Agroforestry Seeds program, we work with rural schools in Mexico’s Monarch Region to help children understand the value of forests, biodiversity, and sustainable agriculture.

Environmental

🌱 Agriculture is one of the main drivers of deforestation in Mexico. Between 2001 and 2024, the country lost an average of more than 200,000 hectares of forest every year, largely due to the expansion of pasture and agricultural land. (⁠Sidof)

That is why agroforestry systems are

In our Monarch Region projects, we focus on three key factors to give every tree the best chance to thrive:

🌲 The right species: We use native tree species and carefully selected crops that are well adapted to local conditions and do not become invasive.

🌧️ The right timing:

🌧️ The rainy season has officially arrived in Mexico’s Monarch region, marking the beginning of our 2026 planting season! 🌱

After months of growing native trees in our nurseries and preparing alongside local communities, we are now establishing new reforestations, agroforestry

🌧️🌱 Why do we wait for the rainy season to plant trees?

Timing is one of the most important factors in successful restoration.

In the Monarca region, we wait for the first consistent rains before planting because young trees need moist soil to establish strong roots. The rainy