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, which is exactly why Kenya’s National Tree Growing Day lands in November. But a good planting window only helps a tree that gets planted correctly and cared for
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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.
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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 millions of trees.
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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.
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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 living trees a year, connecting individual ownership directly to Kenya’s national ambition of 15 billion trees. It opens with a challenge, not a call to action: “Before
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