Canary Islands, Spain
We plant native Canarian forest — pine, laurel, cedar — with volunteers, on land that has lost it. Come for a morning or fund a hillside.
Photographs from our campaigns across the islands.
Seed is collected from local stands and raised in nursery trays until the roots can hold volcanic soil. No ornamental species, no imports — Canary pine, laurel, tree heath, cedar and the companions that belong beside them.
You arrive, we hand you a mattock, gloves and a row. A coordinator shows you how deep, how far apart and how to protect the collar. No experience and no equipment needed — residents and visitors both welcome.
Plots are mapped before the day and each planted group is logged, so a campaign can be followed afterwards instead of disappearing into a press photo.
Our volunteer and donor app shows live campaigns, the plots they cover and what has been planted so far — plus short reading on Canarian forest ecosystems and why a laurisilva slope behaves differently from a pine ridge.
Replacement of losses, protection against grazing and summer watering where a plot needs it. A planting day is the start of the work, not the end of it.
Tell us which one fits and we will come back with dates and details.
A morning on a working plot with a coordinator and a row of your own.
Fund a batch of saplings for a named campaign, planted by our volunteer crews.
Steady support is what pays for nursery stock and the aftercare nobody photographs.
A private planting session for a class, a team or a community group, with an ecosystem talk before the tools come out.
Campaign dates depend on the planting season and on the landowner's permissions, so we confirm them with you directly rather than publishing a calendar that changes.
Your name, your island or where you are staying, and whether you want to volunteer, give or bring a group.
We reply with the active plots near you, what is being planted there and the dates the landowner has cleared.
Meeting point, what to wear, water and sun. You plant; we log the plot and the species as the rows go in.
The campaign stays visible in the app, with aftercare notes as the crew goes back through the summer.
I had never held a mattock. Ten minutes of instruction and I planted eleven pines before lunch. The coordinator checked every one of them.
We were on holiday and wanted one morning that wasn't a beach. They put us on a terrace above the clouds with twenty locals. Best thing we did all week.
I give monthly and I like that the app shows which plot the money went to. It feels like a place, not a receipt.
Volunteering, giving, or bringing a group — write to us here and a coordinator picks it up.
One of our coordinators will get in touch shortly with the campaigns running near you.
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