Before a tree can be planted, it must first be grown. That simple idea has stayed with me ever since. Across the continent, governments, development agencies and environmental organisations continue setting bold restoration targets. The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative, AFR100, aims to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land by 2030 through commitments made by 34 African countries. South Africa has also embraced ambitious greening goals through the Presid

This post is for the young person who looks at what we have built at Nguni Nursery and thinks it has been smooth sailing. It has not. There are still days when I do not know where payroll is coming from. There are still months when we are fighting drought or extreme weather or trying to recover from it. There are days when one decision I make will affect this business for the next 2 or 3 years. People compare businesses all the time, but ours does not work like most busines

From the Ground at Nguni Nursery , Makhanda, Eastern Cape, South Africa At Nguni Nursery, every day is Indigenous Tree Day. We’ve been...

Climate change has had a major impact on the availability of indigenous tree and plant seeds on the continent, making it a hot topic for...

How the Running Tree Campaign began in South Africa - and continues to this day! We are honored to have completed another Running Tree...

A country-led effort to bring over 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030. AFR100, the African Forest Landscape...

We're planting a total of 150,000 trees on 125 hectares in Cape Town townships across the Western Cape to benefit local farmers by...

Siyabulela “Siya” Sokomani, a young entrepreneur from South Africa, runs a commercial nursery that grows thousands of native saplings...

Growing up in Khayelitsha, Siyabulela Sokomani remembers a childhood without any trees around him. In Grade 10, he joined his school’s...

Activist and treegrower Siyabulela Sokomani, who is running carrying a wild olive, said the group of friends is raising cash to plant...