Makhamia drawing

In this section below you can choose between our trees, they are already planted in Kenya and Ghana. 

When you Donate a tree, according to our progammes the farmers understand that they are not allowed to cut them down for burning or other purposes.

Its in their agreement with us, for them to continue to receive seeds for their annual cash crops like peanuts and maize etc.

Speices list

  • Moringa
  • Pigeon
  • Makhamia
  • Neem
  • Acacia
  • Eucalyptus
  • Grevillea
  • Nandi Flame
  • Pigeon
  • Acacia Dwarf

 

Moringa

39,- DKK

Born: August 2022
Location: Homa Bay, Western Kenya 

 

Moringa drawing
Moringa drawing

It is mostly resilient and versitile tree for mulching and replacing mineral fertilizers. It is productive in dry areas. Every part of this tree is valuable but unfortunately it is not sufficiently distributed in the local communities.

  • Dynamic mineral accumulator
  • Soil Perforation
  • Drought Resilience
  • Mature Height: 10m
  • 70 year lifespan
  • Harvested 2-5 years
  • Nutrition: *****
  • Ecological value: *****
  • Crop value: **

Pigeon pea

19,- DKK

Born: August 2022
Location: Homa Bay, Western Kenya 

 

Pigeon pea drawing
Pigeon pea drawing

The pigeon pea is a bi-annual/perrenial legume that grows as a bush in the local environment, we use it for intercropping and fertilizing the soil with nitrogen and minerals.

  • Fertilizer
  • Intercropping 
  • Mulch
  • Mature Height: 40m
  • 5 year lifespan
  • Harvested 1-2 years
  • Nutrition: ***
  • Ecological value: ****
  • Crop value: ****

 

Makhamia
"Nile Tulip"

113,- DKK

Born: Auguust 2022
Location: Homa Bay, Western Kenya 

 

Makhamia drawing
Makhamia drawing

The Makhamia is a support tree that will be used in the live fence, and fertilize the soil around it. 

  • Medicinal
  • Windbreaker 
  • Erosion control
  • Mulch
  • Mature Height: 40m
  • 70 year lifespan
  • Harvested 15-20 years
  • Nutrition: ***
  • Ecological value: ****
  • Crop value: None 

 

Neem

49,- DKK

Born: August 2022
Location: Homa Bay, Western Kenya 

 

Neem

It is a fast growing evergreen tree, and is highly valued for its numerous ecological functions, traditional medicinal values , in agriculture and in pest control.

  • Soil conservation
  • Disease prevention
  • Drought tolerance
  • Medicinal properties
  • Support biodiversities
  • Water conservation

 

 

  • Mature Height: 18 meters
  • 70 year lifespan
  • Harvested 5-10 years
  • Nutrition: *****
  • Ecological value: *****
  • Crop value: **
  • Pest control ****

 

Acacia

 

619,- DKK

Born: January 2017
Location: Sang

 

Three trees helping each other
Acacia trees protecting a mango in Ghana, planted 2017

The acacia tree is a hero tree because it fertilizes the other trees around it.
It is a so-called Nitrogen fixer. It works in a symbiotic realtonships with bacteria to form root ndules that are saturaed with nitoegn. Nitrogen is very volatile and thus travels to the other plants.

  • Nitrogen Fixing
  • Drought Resistant
  • Fast growing
  • Soil amending
  • Mature Height: 40m
  • 120 year lifespan
  • Nutrition: ***
  • Ecological value: ****
  • Crop value: None

 

Eucalyptus

 

49,- DKK

Born: August 202
Location: Homa Bay, West Kenya

 

Eucalyptus drawing

The Eucalyptus tree is the fastest of the pioneer tees, it dries the soil, but mulched correctly with syntropic methods, it can build top soil biomass and a early 1st and 2nd year canopy to shade young trees that grow up slower the Eucalyptus.

  • Medicinal
  • Windbreaker 
  • Early canopy
  • Mulch
  • Mature Height: 20m
  • 70 year lifespan
  • Harvested 4-8 years
  • Nutrition: *
  • Ecological value: **
  • Crop value:  *

 

Grevillea
"Silky Oak"

79,- DKK

Born: August 2022
Location: Homa Bay, Western Kenya

 

Grevilia drawing

The Grevilleais primarliy used in fences, in order to stop soil erosion.

  • Drought Resistant
  • Soil erosion
  • Soil amending
  • Mature Height: 40m
  • 30 year lifespan
  • Harvested 15-20 years
  • Nutrition: ***
  • Ecological value: ****

 

Nandi Flame

"African tulip"

 

85,- DKK

 

Born: August 2022
Location: Homa Bay,
Western Kenya

 

Nandi Flame drawing
Nandi Flame drawing

This tree is locally named after the Nandi people, for its bright red colour, hence the Nandi Flame. 

Thus it serves as a biodiversity tree, and helps attract a lot of insects that feeds on its flowers, increasing the neccesary life in the ecosystem to build up the soil carbon. 

  • Fast growing
  • Soil amending
  • Biodiversity increasing
  • Mature Height: 40m
  • 100 year lifespan
  • Harvested 30-50 years
  • Nutrition: *
  • Ecological value: *****
  • Crop Value: None

 

Acacia Dwarf

 

119,- DKK

Born: August 2022
Location: Homa Bay, West Kenya

 

Acacia drawing
Acacia drawing

The acacia tree is a hero tree because it fertilizes the other trees around it.
It is a so-called Nitrogen fixer. It works in a symbiotic realtonships with bacteria to form root ndules that are saturaed with nitoegn. Nitrogen is very volatile and thus travels to the other plants.

  • Nitrogen Fixing
  • Drought Resistant
  • Fast growing
  • Soil amending
  • Mature Height: 40m
  • 120 year lifespan
  • Nutrition: ***
  • Ecological value: ****
  • Crop value: None

 

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