by Curtis Gobbett | May 9, 2019 | Community, Farmers, Investment, Trees
World Tree’s first crowdfunding effort in the US grows as quickly as the Empress Splendor tree Time was ticking down while the number of acres were scaling up. The World Tree staffwas huddled together watching the countdown as it took place online. There were hopes...
by Curtis Gobbett | Apr 24, 2019 | Climate Change, Community, Environment, Trees
Is it possible to have amazing adventures and do good for the planet? Stein Retzaff and his brother Thor say, “YES!” World Tree was so inspired by their story, we decided to contribute to their mission the best way we know how – by planting trees. Brothers...
by Curtis Gobbett | Feb 15, 2019 | Climate Change, Environment, Trees
“Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.”- Paul Hawken Climate change is arguably the most significant challenge facing...
by Cathy Key | Jan 28, 2019 | Lumber, Trees
Winter, the time of year when the trees go dormant and most of us tuck ourselves indoors to hibernate until Spring. But not the World Tree lumber team. Barry Comis and his crew have been out in the fields harvesting four plantations and meeting a very special VIP...
by Curtis Gobbett | Nov 22, 2018 | Climate Change, Environment
“…scare the BEJEEZUS out of every single person….”These are the words that Senator Bernie Sanders chose to use when describing a recent report released by the United Nations about the condition of our climate the way it stands. And, if we as a nation cannot come...
by Cathy Key | Sep 28, 2018 | Farmers, Trees
A farmer shares his experience of working with World Tree When we first met Will Johnson, he greeted us at his farm in Florida surrounded by his family. We were thrilled when he chose to be come a World Tree farmer and a few months later we interviewed him to find out...
by Cathy Key | Aug 22, 2018 | Farmers, Trees
Each year we take in a new round of investment and plant a new vintage of trees with our farmers. This spring and summer we have been working with our farmers to plant the trees on behalf of our 2017 investors. Nature and nurture are equally important in developing...
by Cathy Key | Aug 22, 2018 | Farmers, Trees
249 acres of trees have been planted on behalf of our 2016 shareholders in Canada, USA and Costa Rica. We have visited about a third of the farmers so far this summer to see how they are doing – and the team will be visiting the remaining farmers over the course...
by Cathy Key | Aug 22, 2018 | Farmers, Trees
Every year World Tree plants a new vintage of trees with our farmers on behalf of our investors. The trees for our 2015 investors were planted with farmers in the Spring and Summer of 2016. These trees all started out as small ‘bare roots’, that look like...
by Madhu | Jul 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
“This place is perfect!” said Alex Jay, our plantation manager, the first time he visited Vancouver Island, BC in the summer of 2016. The soil, temperature and rainfall on Vancouver Island are in the goldilocks zone for our Empress cold hybrid variety which was very...
