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A group of Kenyan farmers in the Word Forest shade net nursery

Word Forest is now on Mastodon

Mastodon is a decentralised social network built around community, meaningful conversation and chronological feeds rather than algorithms. There are no adverts and no data-driven news feeds deciding what people see.

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Renewed Spaces, Renewed Learning

Back in 2015, just before Word Forest’s creation, the co-founders, Simon and Tracey West raised funds to build their first classroom at Kundeni Primary School.  The school had only one

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A collage of tree planting certifcates

Tree Certificates Are Back

Every tree begins as a small seed, but together, those seeds grow into something mighty: forests that clean the air, shelter wildlife, and provide communities with food, shade, and resilience.

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Handing a baton over

Handing Over the Torch

It is time to let a very large and exciting cat out of the bag (which is perhaps a dreadful analogy for a peaceful vegan to use – one should

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Three members of the Teach The Future Team. Image by Oscar Blair

Teach The Future

Listen to this article: Teach the Future is a campaign led by secondary and tertiary education students to greatly improve education on the climate emergency and ecological crisis in the

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