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Co-Founder & CEO at Seq Solutions | AirMiners | Climatebase Fellow

🌳 Yesterday I helped plant 150 native fruit trees and 50 pines for windbreaks. Here's what I learned: 🐣 We are fortunate enough to be part of a community project with others who share our vision for improved food sovereignty and equity. Getting the trees to where they needed to be - and getting them in the ground - was an undertaking that really started this time last year ... we had been gifted 120 or so trees and had no idea what to do, how to do it, or what the results could look like. Things were radically different this year, starting from a careful choice of species and a transport approach including cars, a Greyhound, and a cross-city ride to get the trees to the land 🏋♀️ Then, as a team of committed volunteers and community members spent the day together on our land in McHenry County IL , we were able to find ways to solve problems as a team. You're not exactly racing the clock - the seedlings will last some days if carefully looked after - but we knew we'd only have a few hours on the day itself. In the end, the only trees that weren't planted have planned locations and will be in the ground very soon. 🤗 As Seq Solutions continues to grow, with buyer and supplier LOIs now in hand, we're building scale for not just 200 trees but many hundreds of thousands - millions, before too long. It's worth remembering, as we do this work, the toil that underlays it. Addressing #climatechange is community work, and understanding that can sometimes take getting your hands dirty - and working a meaningful relationship with the land itself. For more: Wonderland Community Project (PS ... the trees are on the back of the bike in the picture!)

  • A person standing astride a bicycle pulling a trailer, stationary, after dark. The bicycle has blue lights on the wheel. The person is wearing a red jacket and a bicycle helmet.
Oliver Luker

Co-Founder & CEO at Seq Solutions | AirMiners | Climatebase Fellow

7mo

Jean-Baptiste (JB) Chaudron that's 240 trees on one bike ;)

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