Listen to this article: In the coastal village of Garashi in Kenya, years of drought, land degradation and poverty have made life increasingly challenging for
Listen to this article: Article Summary: This report explores how community-led reforestation and women’s empowerment in Kenya are building climate resilience and creating sustainable livelihoods for the mothers of Garashi.
Listen to this article: Although #TreesAreTheKey Awareness Week is over for this year, our work continues. It continues in every sapling that grows, in every classroom we’ve funded, in the
Listen to this article: At the age of sixty-five, I have begun to look at the horizon a little differently. I realize that the most important things I have ever
Listen to this article: Awareness around the complex web of global issues we’re currently facing is growing: from climate change and biodiversity loss to worker exploitation, we are being confronted
Listen to this article: I’m grateful to say that, as well as a rather grey car park, during the year I spent in hospital, my window looked out onto a
Listen to this article: ‘Kaya’: a fortified settlement whose cultural spaces are indispensable for the enactment of living traditions that underscore the identity, continuity and cohesion of the Mijikenda communities.
Listen to this article: The Limits of an Individualist Worldview Beneath the forest floor there is a complex network of life – fungal threads that weave through the soil and
Listen to this article: Even before we discovered that trees communicate through underground fungal and root networks (the so-called ‘wood wide web’), authors were writing about trees not merely as
Listen to this article: As I look back on the past twelve months, I realise how much can happen in a year. Some moments were filled with excitement and achievement,
Listen to this article: Water has always been precious in the areas of Kenya where Word Forest works. This year, it has become critical. Across Coast Province, prolonged drought conditions
Listen to this article: Harkness Rose partners with frontline reforestation charity in move that puts £2.50 from every bloom directly into tropical tree planting Sidmouth, February 26th, 2026: Harkness Roses,
Listen to this article: At Word Forest’s Permaculture Teaching Centre (PTC) in rural Kenya, we’ve invested in infrastructure that makes a direct difference to the success of our reforestation work: