
The Four Roots: How Word Forest Grows Forests, Classrooms and Futures
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

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

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

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, the 140-year-old British rose

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:

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Kajiado County, much like other parts of the Tsavo ecosystem in southern Kenya, suffers frequent human-elephant conflict, particularly during the dry months or following poor harvests. Communities bordering wildlife corridors