Hello Tiny Footprint Coffee lovers! So, the last couple of months have been a whirlwind. After finishing the planting of Tiny Footprint’s trees on Grecia Flores and Roberto Nicolalde’s property in Santa Rosa de Mindo, we have been updating our project documents and reconfirming the interest of several landowners in the project: all in preparation [...]
Hello Tiny Footprint Community! These are exciting times for the Mindo Cloudforest Foundation. We have had good news on four different fronts. ONE We have just had a medium sized grant approved by a US foundation and are going to improve some facilities at the Milpe Bird Sanctuary with the funds. In just a couple [...]
Hello Tiny Footprint Coffee Drinkers! This past month Grecia Flores has continued planting trees, as she and her workers are about to finish reforesting two hectares (approx. 5 acres) of land. This new reforestation area, as it continues to grow, will capture Tiny Footprint Coffee’s 2010 production and distribution emissions, in addition to 50 lbs [...]
Hey Tiny Footprint drinkers! It’s been another great month in Ecuador and we are all very gracious of the contributions to our reforestation efforts, made by you, each time you enjoy Tiny Footprint Coffee. For this month’s post, I’d like to give a little insight into the tree planting process. So, this past week we [...]
Feliz año nuevo Tiny Footprinters! 2011 is off to a great start for us in Ecuador. January has been incredibly busy as we continue with our reforestation efforts. In fact, we had some visitors from Gustavus Adolphus College that helped us plant trees recently. The students and professor (Joel Carlin) were enthusiastic, and very happy [...]
Whether your tree is set and beautifully decorated (as of November) or you are frantically running around to find the perfect tree before your guests arrive this weekend, how about a little lesson in the kinds of native trees the Mindo Cloudforest Foundation and our carbon sequestration project participants are planting? This year’s first participant [...]
Hola! Our forestry engineer Leila López and I started planting symbolic Laurel trees (Lauraceae sp.) to celebrate the beginning of planting season! Anyhow, Leila is no longer working with MCF full-time as she had the poor taste to go and get named the Director of the Ministry of Environment in Carchi province where she´s from. [...]
Hola Tiny Footprint drinkers! It’s been beautiful weather lately in the Cloudforest as we continue to prepare for planting season. If the different nurseries that supply us and the weather cooperate, we hope to plant 40 hectares this year, that’s 100 acres. We are planting in 40 year old pastures of Setaria sphacelata, a tough [...]