Happy Arbor Day

Cacia tree growing in Boucantise

The Spanish village of Mondoñedo held the first arbor festival in 1594. The first American Arbor Day was celebrated in Connecticut in 1887. Arbor Day has been an officially recognized national holiday since 1970. And the last Friday of April has been a day of tree planting ever since.

A healthy tree canopy is correlated with lower average temperatures, sequester carbon from the atmosphere, and provide delicious foods from cherries to apples to hazelnuts. Of course, planting trees is only the beginning. It's also important to keep them alive.

On our farm in Boucantise, BonZeb is planting cacia trees and raising them to one day reforest the denuded hills of Haiti. With your support we can roll back decades of over-reliance on wood based charcoal and replant healthy trees.