Here are the steps of the project since I imagined it
First nursery
February 2017
It is in February 2017 that with the help of my friend Katherine, her mother, Ivanna and her brother Mickaël we sowed almost 200 seeds of fruit trees in the garden of the grandfather, Tito. Tito was so generous to help us build this nursery that occupied 3/4 of his garden.
Emblem
26/11/2018
For my birthday, my friend Elvira offered me the emblem of the project embodying every aspect of it. The emblem is inspired from the Angkor temple where Elvira and me had the chance to go together.
Land purchase
March 2019
After several weeks of cycling through fields, mountains and forests to meet the villagers of the south coast of the Caribbean, I had found it. Straight away,it was an evidence that it was the land that I was looking for. As soon as I visited this piece of secondary forest, I knew that it was there that I wanted to live and implement my project. The day of my visit of the land monkeys, birds and frogs were also manifest their presence, I heard it like a joyful "Welcome in your new home". In addition to the beauty of the forest, the soil 's fertility, the two streams, the situation of the field was perfect. Located just behind a nature reserve, midway between the seaside destination of Puerto-Viejo, the ecological and scientific destination of Manzanillo and the Bribri indigenous reserve. I baught the land of 6 hectares to Marvin, a very nice retired guy who know a lot about forest and plants.
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Moving
March 2019
We found a truck to move the trees from Tito's place (in Turrialba) to La evidencia. The 2-years old trees now are planted at the entrance of the land in aclimatization to their new home before to be transplanted in their definated place within the forest of the Evidence.
Second Nursery
Before to go back to Belgium, I set up a nursery on Marvin's land (just opposite to La Evidencia). During my 3 last day in Costa Rica, IÂ have managed to sow 400+ seeds of fruit trees from 62 differents species.
March 2019
Real Start
February 2020
For the next step, with 4 friends, we are going to transplant every trees to their definated position in the forest of La Evidencia ( we aim for 450 trees on 2 hectares)