Join this exciting Arbor Month pilgrimage and reforest project. We will leave from Woodbridge Island, Milnerton Cape Town on Arbor day 1st September and walk for two days (42km) along our magnificent shore line, spending a night together at accommodation in Melbosstrand. The next day we walk through Koeberg Nature Reserve to Camphill Farm, where we sleep and eat communally … [Read more...]
Restoring the forest with educational family fun
One excited family headed towards Gansbaai in the Overberg to participate in a bumper tree planting weekend in the ancient indigenous Platbos Forest. We were to join the Platbos Reforest Fest to help Greenpop restore the forest towards its former glory. It was time to get my hands into the soil and help heal Africa’s southernmost magical Platbos Forest. Our children - young … [Read more...]
Greenpop Platbos Reforest Fest
Once again the Greenpop Platbos Reforest Fest is happening. Twice in 2014, one weekend fest for families and one for friends! Camp in Africa’s southernmost forest, help plant thousands of trees to reforest the surrounding area, dance to live music and be part of growing Platbos Forest back to its original abundance. … [Read more...]
Greenpop Platbos Reforest Festival
Now in its fourth year, Greenpop’s annual Reforest Fest will be held once more over two weekends in May. Greenpop’s reforestation efforts from over the previous three years has led to the planting of over 8000 trees, native to South Africa’s southern most indigenous forest, Platbos. … [Read more...]
Breathing new life into Platbos Forest
Recently, our team spent a relaxing weekend at the 1000 year old Platbos Indigenous Forest, near Gansbaai. We slept in huts made from wood and canvas, and heated up the geyser by making a fire beneath it. Discovering the southernmost remnant of the ancient Afromontane forest which once covered almost the whole of Africa was a journey to our roots in a series of significant … [Read more...]
Trees of light meditations
Natural forests maintain the physical and spiritual balance of our planet. As conduits of universal energy, the world's forests create a network of interlinking energy that provides a harmonious environment for life on Earth. With their roots in the Earth and their crowns in the Heavens, trees act as alchemists for the Divine, connecting what is above with what is below, and … [Read more...]
Trees for tourism
Trees are becoming almost sacred in a world constantly battling against carbon emissions and their resultant climate change with its dire ripple effects on every sphere of our planet's functioning. Nothing represents life, growth and vigour like an ancient, sturdy tree. Hidden on the slopes of the Baviaanskloof hills, just beyond Gansbaai, is 70ha of indigenous forest. A … [Read more...]
The reforest fest at Platbos
One hundred Greenpop volunteers, armed with spades and plenty of enthusiasm, gathered at Platbos - the ancient old-growth forest just a few kilometres inland from Gansbaai - to plant 1000 trees over the weekend of the 11th and 12th of June. They travelled from Cape Town on the 'Green Bus,' a minibus that runs on recycled cooking oil. On arrival on the Friday evening, the … [Read more...]
