Nearly 4,000 small tea farmers in Kenya are part of a scheme to plant trees on their mixed-produce plots, which mitigate climate change through the carbon absorbed in their leaves. It’s funded by Yorkshire Tea, which receives carbon credits from its tea growers and supports the tea-growing community through funding other projects. This month it celebrates planting a million trees across Kenya and Yorkshire.
The story so far
Imagine a productive patch where the growing season lasts all year and rains fall at predictable times – a distant dream for those of us growing our own in temperate, damp northern Europe. The climate, soil and weather in the foothills of Mount Kenya produce these ideal conditions and enable a particular type of camellia bush to thrive. We know its leaves better as…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2019