Bore

A community scrub clearing operation gets underway. Invasive thornbushes need to be removed before planting can begin. the greenness of the foliage and the dark grey clouds indicate that its still raining in Bore. The project creates good, sustainable employment for up to 50 local

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

One of our project monitoring officers surveys the extremely strong recent growth of weeds at a community members, Neem planting site. The rains have come early this year which is lovely for the trees but obviously it also boosts the weeds. Some farmers use goats to suppress these

Close up of the grafting process that enables our farmers to improve the value of their mango crop. The attached graft will grow into a branch that will ultimately yield larger, juicier fruit.

By grafting high quality fruit stems on to existing mango trees you can signficantly improve the size and juiciness of the resultant harvest.

Larger, more flavoursome mangoes fetch a premium price at the local markets - meaning more cash for school fees, home improvements and ultimately

Our project manager, Alex Katana sorts out a nice crop of mangoes for sale at the local market. Carbon sequestration, economic empowerment, nutritional improvement and decent employment ;-)

Local women receive decent sustainable employment potting up carbon-hungry seedlings in the nursery. These are some of the poorest people in the world and yet they are doing some of the most important planetary saving work. Thanks for helping us do this :-)

Moving soil for the coming batch of seedlings in the nursery. Its hard work but our team of workers dont mess about. With funding from Tree-Nation we are now expanding production capacity to 1.5 million seedlings a year. That means more carbon drawdown and more decent employment

The heavy rain that has been falling in the Boré region for the last few months has meant lots of extra weeding - good news for these workers who are earning extra cash removing these fast growing grassed from the community planting site

Neem trees grow surprisingly fast. These ones are only around 9 years old and already are close to producing a closed canopy. Due to its antiseptic properties, Neem timber is resistant to attack from termites and so is highly prized as a building material in this part of Kenya. Each

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

The Management Committee of the Boré Green Umbrella Self Help Group. These are the great people who coordinate all our planting work in Boré. One of their main jobs is to make sure that the trees and all other project benefits are shared out fairly amongst all members of the community.