Tree stories are free stories...

Tree stories are free stories, tales told by every twist and turn of nature's magnificent growth. Every tree holds a narrative of the years within in roots, its rings, its trunk, and its branches; the history of the world wrapped and entrapped within a single awe inspiring organism. When we stand before the arboreal we stand before ourselves and all that has happened to bring us here, to where we now are.

Tree stories are free stories, tales to tell us and show us how we could and should be: rooted in, and nurtured by, this beautiful blue and glorious great green Earth.

Thank you @mindful_walks for your "favourite tree" post that inspired this one. These incredible specimens are my favourites for the now. Petal and I nickname them the "Three Wise Men", and wisdom is something the world sorely needs in these difficult times. They are a type of fig tree, Ficus Capreifolia, or in the local Chichewa tongue "Kachere"

TREEZ

As some of you know, TREEZ is a work in progress. It evolves every year depending on what has worked or not. One of the things we were trying to improve on was the survival rate of the trees planted along the streams.

Previously, each year we have planted and then topped up where necessary. We have paid for each job; ie: clearing, pitting, planting, maintaining etc but we wanted the groups to be more involved, to take ownership of these trees. So last year we decided that we would pay for each seedling that had survived by counting each tree and seedling a year later.

And so we counted, and between the 2 groups, over 7,000 trees survived.Â

A huge CONGRATULATIONS :)))