Short Rains, Strong Roots: A Practical Guide to Planting Season in Kenya
Kenya’s short rains, typically arriving through October and November, are the single best planting window of the year for most indigenous species in Nairobi and the highlands
Plant Your Age
A Movement Built From One Tribute
On 26 September 2011, one day after Prof. Wangari Maathai's death, Dr Isaac Kalua Green called on Kenya and the world to honour each year of her life by planting and growing 71 trees.
- Universal & indelible - your age never expires / One idea
- Every scale - a person, a family, a company, a nation
- We measure who survives, not just who's planted
My Living Legacy
Plant
Grow trees equal to your age, your family's, your company's years in business.
Grow
Care for them year-round - planting day was never the finish line.
Prove
Every 14 September is now Living Legacy Report Day - we account for what survived.
Our People
The Hands Behind Every Tree
A small team of volunteers turning every planted tree into clean water, healthy food, and a legacy that outlives us.
John Kioli
Executive Director
Joe Kithyaka
National Chairman
Mercy Kamau
Program Manager
Lenah Kitavi
Communications
My Age, My Living Legacy
Plant Your Age
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Every planting day starts somewhere. These events cover the seedlings, the tools, and the hands to put them in the ground.
Sep 14
Plant Your Age Day 2026 – The Activation
Location:Green Africa Group Headquarters, Karen Green Complex Date:Monday, 14 September 2026 Find us
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Aug 14
Kenya National Tree Growing Day – November Edition
Location:TBC Date:Monday, 14 November 2026 Find us
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What It Actually Costs to Grow One Tree: A Transparent Breakdown
A tree costs more than a seedling. Here's the real, itemised cost of taking one seedling from purchase to a year of survival, and why we publish every line.
The Story of Plant Your Age: From One Boy’s Sums to a National Movement
How a prison constable's quiet devotion, a teenager's school-holiday arithmetic, and a tribute to Wangari Maathai became a national movement now measured in the hundreds of million
Why We Stopped Counting Trees Planted: And Started Counting Trees That Survived
Kenya has reported 1.7 billion trees planted since 2022. National forest cover hasn't moved. Here's the gap nobody's closed yet, and why Plant Your Age exists to close it.
My35 and Plant Your Age: One Number, One Family, One Kenya
In September 2024, Dr. Isaac Kalua Green (the same Chief Steward behind Plant Your Age) published a proposal called My35: every Kenyan personally plants and maintains 35 verified l
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