Community Tree Planting in Action!

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Significant support from Tree-Nation over 2020 has helped us really expand our main community tree nursery and increase the scale of the project. We were able to propagate 500,000 new seedlings this year which we feel pretty proud about given that it has taken us all of the previous12 years to plant 1 million! Half of the seedlings have now been planted and the balance will follow in the coming 'Big Rains' in the Spring of 2021.

We've been able to buy a new 4WD project vehicle and trailer, specifically for seedling distribution and in these images our team load up our 2 project vehicles from the nursery.


The next step is to get the trees out to the many planting sites. Due to our increased haulage capacity we are now able to supply trees over a much wider area and to 2100 farmers and 125 schools. Here the seedlings are being unloaded at one such site.

Whilst here they are being planted...

This short video also shows the planting process.


We couldn't plant even a single seedling without your help.

Thanks so much from all the community in Bore

#video #tnphoto #PlantingDay #community

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Seed and grow9 November 2020

500k seedlings in one year is a great project milestone. Hope the teams will be able to see them growing in the next years. Please keep us updated on the people and locations - it is mainly about people doing the right thing. We should make them visible to know, who does the good work out there.

Ru Hartwell9 November 2020

Thanks for the kind words Thomas. Yes, we need to recognise the planters and workers efforts so that others can follow their good example. I promise to keep this wonderful community updated on the advances they are enabling with our partner community in Kenya in the coming times. We are expanding fast at the moment and you can come unstuck if you are too ambitious but counting against that is the fact that this planet absolutely needs more trees in a big hurry, especially down in the Tropics - so our latest target is to be planting 1 million every year but it might take 2 or 3 years to get there!

Markus Forster10 November 2020

Thank you Ru for these good news and all the details about your project work! You are definitively doing a great job in Boré!

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