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March 2024

Earlier this week in the Borè nursery. Really excited to see the new batch of seedlings peeping up out of the soil. These beauties feed on sunlight like you feed on toast in the morning and every single one will spend years capturing photons and using their embodied stellar energy

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February 2024

It is time to get ready for the nursery and tree planting season of 2024 at La Pedregoza!

The first step is identifying appropriate land for different tree species and mapping out the details like topography and waterflow within the soon to be forest.

Inside La Pedregoza’s

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Pinus Caribaea

Although here at La Pedregoza we prefer to plant, when possible, with native trees, the growth of our Caribbean Pine plantations has been undeniabl...

Here is a photo of the true heroines of Pedregoza, the Cow Goddesses. The Holy Cow, the Zebu cow (Bos indicus) is worshipped as a Cow Goddess in India because she comes to rescue the planet after it is destroyed and devoid of any vegetation. From the results we have seen, we feel

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Plant Trees to Stop Desertification

It is well understood these days that just a few thousand years ago the Sahara was a lot wetter and greener than it is now. These cave paintings fr...

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Fighting Desertification in Kenya Through Community-Driven Reforestation

Amidst the stark landscapes of Kenya's arid lands, the Bore Project represents a beacon of hope. This ambitious initiative tackles desertification ...

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We use a GPS logger to keep a precise location record of all our planting sites. Its accurate to within 2-3 metres - so no room for error. All our monitoring team has been trained in how to use these devices. Some technological innovations are well worth having.

Orinoco Sassafras (Ocotea Cymbarum) is an endangered native tree on the IUCN Red List due to previous irresponsible logging practices to extract safrole oil, a root beer ingredient used for its pleasant odor, and to harvest the wood for fine furniture and boat building.

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January 2024

Brachesytigia spiciformis seedlings growing well in the nursery. This is a great indigenous variety that is also known as the Bean Pod tree and is the most common species in local natural forest. Local provenance types like this are great for helping wildlife as they've been growing

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Janet Mranja, one of our key project workers with a member of the Amkeni Women's Group. The women who make up this nearby self-help cooperative are employed in our tree nursery at the busiest times and under guidance from Janet they're using some of their wages to create 'Vertical

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Jefferson is a promising young man with a joyful passion for tree planting that goes above and beyond the average every chance he gets and has seen him quickly rise to a position as a farm administrator.

Here he is encouraging an Albizia Saman seedling to grow into what one day

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Women in sub-Saharan Africa generally have few employment options and yet much research (for example by the Gates Foundation) indicates that funding support that is directed towards women has a significantly higher ROI (return on investment) than that allocated towards men. In our

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Ru Hartwell · a year ago

Its a pleasure Jeanette!

Stephen Ngumbao is one of the oldest farmers that work planting trees in Boré. He is a former teacher and pastor and is quite possibly the nicest, gentlest and most softly spoken human, you could ever hope to encounter. Here he is pictured in front of some of the residual indigenous

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Ru Hartwell · a year ago

Thanks Nicci!

December 2023

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

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While we all debated about having a Christmas's tree post of some sort it was rather difficult to decide which tree should get the attention this year until we came across this stunning red and green side by side and knew we had found our answer.

We are not certain what the red

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