Author name: Lars Bessel

Don’t we all always want to change something? More sport, less sugar, less swearing, more vegetables, less meat, less waste, more nature…?The most blatant thing happens when we actually move from thought to action. We don’t always have to change everything straight away. Even small steps feel very beneficial. We become the creators of our […]

The Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitungsverlag (sh:z) has published a full-page report about our forest tree nursery in Sierra Leone/West Africa!

The permanent structures in our tropical forest nursery continue to grow! A sturdy roof now shades the storage container and forecourt and protects it from the rain in the coming weeks. The advantage in Sierra Leone, with its mix of Christians and Muslims, is not least that work is carried out throughout the week –

The next cracker: we actually bought a “bush-tree-bugger”! Not as planned, but that’s normal in West Africa. Originally it was supposed to be a new van of Indian origin, the much-quoted “Phoenix”. Now it has become a German, an 814 Mercedes-Benz. Old but robust and much bigger. And: we can easily get hold of spare

Every year this is the big moment for all of us at greenlimba: our first seedlings leave the tree nursery and move into the open field. Wonderful! This time, the community of Kagbaray led the way. Chief Sorie and “Bossman” (photo) had already mobilized the entire village weeks ago to make all the necessary preparations

Our central forest tree nursery continues to grow: the small building (in the background) is almost finished, now the main focus is on future irrigation with our own well and extending the shade over the cultivation areas. After all, we want to increase the number of our seedlings more than sixfold compared to this year

Why CSR doesn’t just stand for cheescake with whipped cream and rooibos tea – but also. “Corporate Social Responsibility”, or CSR for short, is anything but an American invention; in fact, the idea originated in Europe 200 years ago. Today, CSR is often translated as “corporate social responsibility”. That sounds unwieldy. What it means is

Our tropical forest nursery is currently a hive of activity: weeding, watering, reseeding. And the “living fence” around the grounds is also almost finished, as soon as the sticks from the “Sour Plum” have been fixed in place with split bamboo sticks. In a month’s time, the seedlings will be distributed. Several thousand small trees

That’s right, those are NOT tree seeds that our employees are looking after in the forest nursery – they’re peanuts! And there are two good reasons for this: Since we won’t be using the entire area of more than one hectare until the fall, the elephant grass threatens to overgrow the area again. The solution:

We need to finance a “bush-tree-buggy” for Sierra Leone by the middle of the year so that we can safely transport the seedlings from our tropical forest tree nursery to the most remote savannah villages. If you donate €100 or more (tax-deductible), you will even receive a sticker with your name on the mini-truck! Are