We don’t just plant trees. We create fast growing forest ecosystems.Quickly restoring the forest ecosystem helps to restore local biodiversity, revive soil, bring back birds and pollinators. It builds resilience against fires, floods and landslides and regulates local temperatures and air quality. It also creates multiple sustainable economic development opportunities for local communities.

We have been planting forests based on the Miyawaki method since 2016 and have accumulated valuable learning around soil enhacement of different soil types, identification of native tree species and community engagement for land restoration projects. Our team is a blend of experts from systems-thinking, practical forest creation & community development, and financial markets - all coming together to efficiently channel capital towards environmental and social good. Collectively, we have planted ~800,000 trees using this methodology and have multiple projects in our pipeline.

We are now looking to scale and create Million Tree Forests in 100 acre degraded land parcels (not suitable for food production) in a regions where women and youth are in need of economic opportunities. Over 18 months, we will create a million tree forest and set up the infrastructure that can fuel future forests of hundreds of millions of trees in the same region. As the local communities see the forest come up (seeing is believing!) we begin to work with them on additional economic opportunities in food, water and energy. As the forests grow, these additional activities help sustain the communities and also meet their more short term needs.

The project focuses on the creation of high-density native forests comprising a mix of over 50 species native species. Based on the Miyawaki Method, these forests contain 1 million trees/100 acres. The process mimics and accelerates natural forest succession by design, leading to a 10x growth rate when compared to traditional plantation forests. Trees in these forests routinely see a greater than 90% survival rate with minimal care beyond weeding and watering.