Helping People Plant Beautiful Forests
Regenerative agroforestry that cares for productive ecosystems
About Us
Our Mission
We are a regenerative initiative that longs to reforest the north of Portugal and Spain by proving that a forest can be ecologically sound as well as wildly productive.
By partnering with people driven to repair Earth, we help transform degraded lands into wild and flourishing forest communities. Where regenerative agroforestry builds soil, ecosystems resist wildfire, and people earn the economic freedom they need to care for their land.
We want to lower the threshold for what it takes to plant and manage forests, while allowing people to grab hold of their regenerative future.
Strategy
Regenerative Goals
I think the path we’re on, in terms of this climate emergency, needs millions of people to live closer to nature. With that in mind, I’m looking for people eager to wake up in the morning to plant and care for trees, and to empower them any way I can.
Diego Reimondez
We’re working towards a strong social web of interconnected people working and living towards regeneration. We’re developing strong ties with established organizations in the region, as well as helping fledgling projects take off.
Laida Alberdi Cerruela
Healthy ecosystems thrive on symbiosis. Regenerating degraded ecosystems starts with us realising that we have to live together with those ecosystems and that we have to take care of them. The they will take care of us as well.
Frank van Doremalen
How You Can Get Involved
Donate
We’re always on the lookout for new projects to support. Yet to do that, we need financial aid. If you’d like to help, you can donate to us directly. Or you can browse the regenerative projects we already support on our partner page, and support them directly.
Apply for a Grant
Every year we try and discover a few deserving projects that are in need of a little kickstart. The economic burden of starting a forest can be too much for some projects. We’re hoping to lower the threshold for what it takes to plant regenerative forests.
Become a Partner
In order to build a strong network of projects we need strong partners! We’re on the lookout for organizations, invested in the regenerative future, and interested in joining forces. If you work with forests in any way, chances are we’d like to work together!
Our Pillars
Develop Forest Initiatives
We want to help incubate beautiful projects where nature’s voice is respected, people can feel at home, and fauna can feel safe enough to get close and help us out.
Support the Network
We support a network of regenerative projects. Through consultancy and adaptable models of forestry, we’re eager to help people plant forests they can be confident will mature into the productive ecosystems they imagined.
Ecologic Education
Through the creation of open-source resources, courses, and other tools, we want to arm people with the knowledge, and support they need to plant their own forest, and be able to care for them into maturity.
Blog
Recent Posts
Eucalyptus Conversions: 3 Case Studies
A lot of people have asked us how we would go about transforming a eucalyptus or a pinewood into a biodiverse forest. And as always, when it has to do with forests, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. So, we thought we’d explore a few projects we’ve worked on in the past that attempted to do just that. We’ll give some quick background and then look at the pros and cons of each approach to get a sense of how they behave. Before we start though, if you’d like to get a bit clearer idea of why we’re focusing on eucalyptus…
Keep readingEucalyptus: Feel Free to Plant a Few
Here in Galicia (and Portugal too), conversations about the eucalyptus can get pretty heated. It can be quite hard to have a conversation about anything ecological without someone pulling the topic towards eucalyptus. Like most other things in this world, people here are pretty polarized on the topic. With most everyone split into one of two groups, the first trying to argue how terrible they are, and the second arguing how excellent they are at making money. (Summarized quite well by this parody of despacito in which the generations argue about eucalyptus). The truth, however, seems to be that neither…
Keep readingThe 10 Goals of our “Ice Cream Forest”
For a bit of context for what we mean by an ice cream forest, you can check out our last post on the ice cream forest we’ve been managing at the Silverto project. 1. Beautiful Management We believe that productive forests should form part of their ecosystem, they should and function like nature, and that people should feel good while they manage them. We don’t want to repeat the failings of conventional agriculture which stressed over eliminating every living thing it could excepting the one (arbitrarily) chosen species, while exploiting both soil and people to grow it. Practically, this means…
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