Sowing Water

The production of tree seedlings is an important stage in the forest restoration chain. The Sowing Water Project maintains a nursery of native seedlings from the Atlantic Forest in Nazaré Paulista. Part of the species that are donated through Tree Nation are produced in this nursery.

There are several ways to restore the health, integrity and sustainability of an ecosystem. In the Cantareira System region, where the Atlantic Forest predominates, forest restoration is the most common form. But there are many forest restoration methods to reestablish the ecosystem

The Sowing Water Project's soil preparation and planting actions have been and promise to be very challenging in the coming days. The Cantareira System region is in the high danger zone for extreme heat. Our field assistants are being prepared to change schedules and activities,

It is gratifying to visit the areas where plantings were done in the last rainy season. The young trees are growing, spontaneous plants typical of the tropical forest also occupy the area and slowly the grass (where it used to be a pasture) is losing space. These are the first steps

The last heat wave in the southeast region of Brazil was frightening. It hadn't been this hot for a long time, combined with the lack of rain. Fortunately the extreme heat went away and it rained in the areas where the Sowing Water Project plants the trees that came from Tree Nation

Scientific research is one of the components of the Sowing Water Project, generating important data for raising financial resources for all project actions and subsidies for public policies for environmental protection. Last week, the project team received researchers from the Federal

In April, the Sowing Water Project team received visits to their projects: ecological restoration areas, climate schools and rural properties with sustainable production systems. Among the visitors were technicians from Petrobras, from the Public Services Regulatory Agency of the

These images were sent by Marina. She is one of the owners of Ecovila Associação Cambará, located in the Cuiabá neighborhood, Nazaré Paulista, SP, Brazil. Two types of coffee are being planted in the area in alternating rows with fruit trees native to the Atlantic Forest. Coffee

The Sowing Water Project was present at a side event of the "UN Conference on Water", which took place in March. Andrea Pupo, the project's environmental educator, spoke about the importance of forest restoration in areas around springs, rivers and reservoirs and about how the adoption

Last week, another agroforestry coffee plantation was planted by the Sowing Water Project team on a rural property located in the Cantareira System region. Agroforestry systems are among the solutions proposed by the Sowing Water Project team. In the images you can see coffee being

"Speechless for the harvest" This is the sentence written over the photo of "Marisa", one of the beneficiaries of the Sowing Water Project. She was very happy and excited about the first corn harvest from her agroforestry system. Non-transgenic native seeds were used, hence the red