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...
by Madhu | Apr 1, 2018 | Farmers, Trees
My name is Kara Arnold and I have been working with World Tree for four years. I began with World tree before our Free Tree Program was born, and have been so happy to watch it grow and expand beyond the tiny company we began as. The thing that drew me to World...
by Madhu | Feb 23, 2018 | Environment, Trees
“Scam! BS! I’ll never plant these trees!” These were the kinds of comments we got on our Facebook feed when we started to promote our Free Tree program to farmers in the Southern USA. What was this Paulownia scam thing all about? The upset revolved around two primary...
by Madhu | Dec 23, 2017 | Community, Investment
The World Tree Carbon Offset Program is only possible because of some very special people: Our farmers who plant and grow the trees, our investors who fund the program and our champions who share their love of World Tree. As we complete 2017 we want to say a...
by Madhu | Nov 9, 2017 | Farmers, Trees
There are many ways to plant an Empress tree. World Tree prefers to use methods that are kind to the land and the tree and one of the best ways to do that is “spot planting”. Rather than till the whole field, farmers can create localized planting spots, ideally about...
by Madhu | Oct 23, 2017 | Farmers, Trees
Farmers are the heart and soul of the Carbon Offset Program: they plant the trees, take care of them, provide water, fertilizer and TLC required for the trees to thrive. In this post we meet some of the farmers participating in the program and look behind the scenes...
by Madhu | Sep 10, 2017 | Farmers, Trees
It’s September and already the farmer team at World Tree are talking about next year’s trees. We plan nearly a year in advance of the planting season so that trees have time to grow to the right size and number. Empress Trees begin life in one of two ways. This year,...
