We'll be partnering with the Selma Jubilee to create a native forest, food forest, and urban garden as part of a Selma, Alabama Food Equity program!
After several months of consultation and brainstorming, we've identified a potential land donor. Our plan is to create a Miyawaki style native tree forest, in connection with a food forest, an urban garden, and as part of a local food equity program.
The native tree forest will be 100x more biodiverse, 30x denser, and grow 10x faster than a conventionally planted forest.
“We are excited about the possibility to partner with the community to create more access to nutritious food, to nature, and to address the issue of inequitable access to produce because of the 'food desert' phenomenon.”
A food desert is a place where there is inequitable access––or no access––to healthy produce, and where people rely on processed foods for their diet. Food deserts tend to occur in marginalized, impoverished communities, where there is inequitable access to land for gardens. In food deserts, produce from the grocery store is cost prohibitive because of systemic poverty––often also related to systemic racism.
Bridging Communities Through Forest Restoration
This is one of the many projects we are excited to begin to connect communities in collaboration and friendship! Treeplanting is nonpartisan, productive, and fun! Our forests grow 10x faster, they are 30x denser and 100x more biodiverse. We restore the soil from the very beginning, rather than waiting 100s of years for the forest itself to make soil through seasonal lifecycles. Since the soil stores 3x more carbon than the trees themselves, our forests start storing 3x more carbon than conventional reforestation––immediately. And since both the trees and the soil store much more carbon, nitrogen, and other compounds that would otherwise be lost from the soil as green house gasses, our forests are super-sequestration carbon sinks.
We are proud to partner with communities of color. We seek funding from corporations to help with these projects as part of a larger stakeholder capitalism mandate. Stakeholder capitalism is a rapidly growing approach to doing business, in which corporations redefine success as making the world a better place for all stakeholders––community members, employees, ecosystems––not just for shareholders. Corporations buy forest installation projects from us to draw down their carbon emissions. Communities get together to install forests to improve their neighborhoods. Governments, regenerative farmers, and both silviculture and agroforestry businesses collaborate to increase land use efficiency, yield, curb topsoil loss, prevent wildfire, and increase food security.
See more of what we're up to here (#4trilliontrees #trilliontrees #regenerative).
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