Head to i-news to read Jenny’s Opinion and find out why smallholder farmers are the answer to scaling up tree planting across the globe, and why a newly planted tree in the tropics will be much more effective in tackling climate change than its equivalent planted here in the UK. Read more on the i-news […]
Read Harrison Jones’ article on the Oxford Mail website to read Jenny’s response to the news that we need to plant more trees and how we need to look beyond the UK to warmer-climes where quicker gains can be made.
Last week the news that tree planting was the most effective way to tackle climate change, became big news. Check out Damian Carrington’s article in The Guardian, Matt McGrath’s article on BBC website, and Chiara Giordano’s article in The Independent just as starters. As a charity that plants trees, we’re excited and pleased that awareness […]
The race to restore trees to our Planet is well and truly underway — find out more by reading this article by Patrick Barkham at the Guardian. You can find out more about the Plant Your Future story and what we’re doing to restore the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, and then do your bit to help […]
We are over the moon to announce that Plant Your Future is the winner of The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2018 ‘Best Newcomer’ award! It means an additional £1000 added to the £11,747.50 we raised during the week long campaign in December — read more about our campaign in our Christmas Challenge post from earlier this […]
This April (2019) CEO of Rainforest Alliance, Han de Groot, wrote an article in the Scientific American. The article, Forests are a low tech but high impact way to fight climate change, makes the point that the best technology we need to fight the ever increasingly worrying effects of global warming isn’t a technology at all […]
Stop Press! Earlier this March, Jenny was interviewed by progressive UK grant funder, The Fore, to discuss Plant Your Future’s (PYF) work and the way in which a grant awarded by The Fore helped us overcome a critical hurdle in our work in the Peruvian Amazon. Why was the grant so critical? While waiting for […]
Happy new year! We hope you all had a fantastic time with your loved ones over the Christmas break. At Plant Your Future, we wish to start 2019 with a huge thank you to all the supporters of our Big Give Christmas Challenge. At the end of last year, we set ourselves the ambitious target […]
Products sourced directly from the Rainforest are helping to protect it and the biodiversity that needs it to survive and thrive. Leading this growing ‘Rainforest to table’ movement is Canopy Bridge — a sourcing network bringing together businesses, producer associations and community groups who are buying and selling natural products. By helping create easy, direct […]
In 2018, we launched Charapita — a new ethically and sustainably-sourced hot chilli sauce brand. Made using the indigenous charapita chillies of the Amazon Rainforest, and preserved with native limes, our ingredients are grown by the farmers we are working with. Charapita chilli is the perfect short-term high-value crop that grows as part of our […]