Most forests are being cut down these days for agriculture, so our food systems are currently destroying our eco systems.
But what if we had a different way of growing food that would need forests?
This is the goal of permaculture, also known as agroforestry.
To make it real short, the idea of it is to imitate the forest and create a small eco system where you plant various crops together, that will help each other other out.
It is also the life mission of Trees for Future, who have been working on that for the last three decades with proven results.
I stumbled upon their work through a ceramist who was raising funds for them, and looked into their approach a little bit more. I also checked their association on charity navigator and after careful consideration, decided thew were truly a good association to work with.
So I created this painting of a logging machine, typically used for deforestation, that is being over grown with a colorful nature.
The painting is going to be auctioned here and I will donate 10% of the end price to trees.org
However, feel free to donate on your own. I really believe that this type of association can offer a real future to humanity.
xx
Stéphanie
8 thoughts on “Re-Forestation”
bravo
Gorgeous painting for a very noble cause!
I always find those big power machines terrifying. And have you seen the flying version of those…large chainsaws dangling for helicopters?
Funny (in the odd way) how climate change cannot really be predicted. I have a hedge around my garden and it’s dying because of climate change. Because of repeated heatwaves, the pine trees are emitting some hormones that attract bark bugs (scolytes)…and while researching what I could do, I found out it’s a world wide problem…pine trees are dying everywhere and a big cause of fire too.
yes climate change basically is making the climate more extreme. So it gets a lot hotter in summer, colder in winter, and the rain is more violent. This year we’ve already had issues with harvesting food because of the weather.
The future is pretty bleak tbh ^^’
It is so sad, to ruin great forests for the food industry and then throw in the garbage a lot of that food. Some people always want more and more money and many more people can not afford that food. But nature will survive. I’m not sure will the human race will survive.
Beautiful and powerful artwork here! Love how you used the colors here…
What kind of internal tkm for creativity !!!
It’s so cool that creative people come together in the process.